Banaszczyk| Pietraszewski| Popakul (PL)
Justyna Banaszczyk – FOQL, Experimental electronic and dance music artist, author of radio dramas, film scores and video game soundtracks. In 2020 nominated by Unsound festival for SHAPE platform - a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Scholarship from Polish Ministry of Culture in 2020. Scholarship from artists union ZAIKS in 2020. Supported by Instytut Adama Mickiewicza (“Polish Culture Abroad” - tour on Ukraine).
Performed live: Unsound festival (3 times), Sacrum Profanum, Festiwal Przemiany (Centrum Nauki Kopernik), Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Avant Art Festiwal and many, many more. Her sounds bring to mind IDM and industrial, but their most distinctive features are complex rhythms and often harsh sounds, which constantly explore and contradict the artist’s musical identity – a trait that is reflected in her largely improvised live performances.
Performed live: Unsound festival (3 times), Sacrum Profanum, Festiwal Przemiany (Centrum Nauki Kopernik), Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Avant Art Festiwal and many, many more. Her sounds bring to mind IDM and industrial, but their most distinctive features are complex rhythms and often harsh sounds, which constantly explore and contradict the artist’s musical identity – a trait that is reflected in her largely improvised live performances.
Darek Pietraszewski - Copy Corpo, an improviser and promoter of independent music, as well as co-founder of the cassette label Pointless Geometry. He makes music using electronic and electroacoustic objects. Together with Justyna Banaszczyk, he co-organizes the Warsaw concert series focused on experimental music – “V/A – Various Artist”. As VJ Copy Corpo, he creates visualizations based on feedback and VHS footage, working within the aesthetics of analogue glitch and psychedelic color structures. In his improvised sets he uses analogue video mixers, video cameras and other peripheral devices.
Tomek Popakul – ASTMA, an animation director, musician, graphic designer, music video creator. Graduated Lodz Film School on direction animation and special effects. Parallelly studied there scriptwiritng for 1 year. His graduation movie "Ziegenort" was shown on many international festivals and gained many awards incl. main award fro animated movie on New Horizons festival in Wrocław, award for best animation on Cracow Film Festival, Grand Prix in Oberhausen, and award for best animation on Brooklyn film festival. As musican performs under name ASTMA. Released debut album "Anekumena" on SD memory card in Audile Snow label, second album "Koniec Antropocenu" on cassette in Pointless Geometry, newest album "Mountain Scream" in digital form in Intruder Alert . Creator of music videos for labels Brutaż, and Syntetyk and cover artist for label Pointless Geometry.
Temple of Urania
2020 / Audiovisual project
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
“Temple of Urania” is an audiovisual project by three Polish artists (Justyna Banaszczyk, Darek Pietraszewski, Tomek Popakul), based on an art residency that took place just before the outbreak of the pandemic on the Channel Island of Jersey. The final form of the installation was informed by the experience of pandemic isolation in 2020 and an attempt to find an alternative way of presentation – one that would exclude the collective nature of concerts or clubs, while still offering a space for the actual reception of an audiovisual work, ‘live’ and offline.
The project, inspired by the extraordinary life and work of the artist couple Claude Cahun (b. Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (b. Suzanne Malherbe), who lived on Jersey during the Nazi occupation, will be presented in two versions: as a travelling multi-channel audiovisual installation (premiere: 13-15/08/2021, Sanatorium of Sound Festival, Sokołowsko) and a 28-minute film released by Pointless Geometry on a limited, collector’s VHS tape (premiere: 21/09/2021). Curator: Dominika Szpinda.
2020 / Audiovisual project
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
“Temple of Urania” is an audiovisual project by three Polish artists (Justyna Banaszczyk, Darek Pietraszewski, Tomek Popakul), based on an art residency that took place just before the outbreak of the pandemic on the Channel Island of Jersey. The final form of the installation was informed by the experience of pandemic isolation in 2020 and an attempt to find an alternative way of presentation – one that would exclude the collective nature of concerts or clubs, while still offering a space for the actual reception of an audiovisual work, ‘live’ and offline.
The project, inspired by the extraordinary life and work of the artist couple Claude Cahun (b. Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (b. Suzanne Malherbe), who lived on Jersey during the Nazi occupation, will be presented in two versions: as a travelling multi-channel audiovisual installation (premiere: 13-15/08/2021, Sanatorium of Sound Festival, Sokołowsko) and a 28-minute film released by Pointless Geometry on a limited, collector’s VHS tape (premiere: 21/09/2021). Curator: Dominika Szpinda.
Temple of Urania
2020
Audiovisual project
Temple of Urania
2020
Audiovisual project
