Concert For High Heels
Zofia Wollny, Anna Szwajgier
performers: Joanna Bas, Malgorzata Fus, Dominika Knapik, Marta Ostrowicz,
Anna Seweryn, Agnieszka Silowiecka, Katarzyna Wilk, Natalia Wojtuszek
'Project intentionally uses female steps and sounds that are produced by high heeled shoes with all of their cultural, aesthetic and metaphorical weightiness. At the same time it is set in a definite, chosen particulary for this purpose architectonic space. It's official and monumental character is also an important context of the act. Performance uses specific reverb and resonance of main hall and adjoining corridors. Sound material is acoustic and comes from a wide range of various sounds produces when taking steps. Moving in various rhythms, speed, volume and timbre, performers constantly change the set of relations between the sound sources.'
(from the Audio Art Festival'04 program)
For the concert we choose the neogothic building of the Jagiellonian University.. The concert took place in the late evening, after working hours, in empty space, the girls that performed were invisible for the public.
Documentation of the project (wideo made by Jan Choloniewski) was shown at the exhibition 'The grey zone' (Instytut Polski Budapest 2004), 'SFX prolog -Prószków' (Prószków 2005), ' We like it a lot!' (Nettie Horn Gallery London 2007)
Initially 5 concerts performed in April 2004. Later as a part of the Audio Art Festival'04.
Audio Art Festival exists in Kraków since 1993. It is organized by Marek Chołoniewski and Muzyka Centrum Art Society. It presents composers and performers form all over the world. The festival gives a broad view over the directions that music takes at the present. Its main focus is the presentation of new musical instruments, sound objects and sound installations, arrangement of sound-visual events such as happenings and performances and showing the possibilities of new technologies applied in artistic projects. Festival also presents other non-audio art events extending the whole image of the art based on sound.
Several artists performed at the festival so far. Among them: GRAME Studio (Lyon), Logos Duo (Ghent), Rolf Langebartels (Berlin), Horst Rickels (Neunen), Zbigniew Karkowski (Kraków/Tokio), Gordon Monahan (New York/Berlin), Bang on a Can (New York), Evan Parker (London)
see also : Anna Szwajgier
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