Grassmania Festival 2010

25.08.10 12:22:00

Grassmania Festival 2010. Time and Grass
16-18 September 2010
old shopping centre “Neptun” building
Grunwaldzka 107/109, Gdansk-Wrzeszcz
free admission with a flyer ( flyers at ggm1 and 4g)
Festival rules: It is not allowed to bring in your own alcohol. Smoking is prohibited in the building.

The second edition of Grassmania Festival will take place on 16-18 September 2010 in an old shopping centre “Neptun” building in Gdansk Wrzeszcz. The building will soon be demolished, so the festival will be a symbolic “good bye” to this place. The festival is organized by Gdansk City Gallery and dedicated to work of Gdansk born Noble Prize winner Günter Grass. The title of the festival's second edition is “Time and Grass”- as time is a frequent topic in Grass's writing. We invited artists from Poland and Tricity representing different fields of art. The festival is taking place in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz, a district, where Günter Grass was born. All artists will confront the concept of time- in the context of their own work and the artistic work of Günter Grass. 

Grassmania Festival 2010. Time and Grass.
Old shopping centre “Neptun” building Grunwaldzka 107/109
Basement, ground floor, 1st and 4th floor
Artists: Azorro, Jakub Bielawski, Leszek Brogowski, Roman Bromboszcz,Wojtek Bruszewski, Michał Brzeziński, Aleksandra Chomicz, Kamila Chomicz, CUKT, Witosław Czerwonka, Denis, Marcin Dymiter, Carmen Feliu, Michał Gos, ARTI Grabowski, Zuzanna Janin, Alicja Karska, Viktoria Krason, Ewa Bloom Kwiatkowska, Anna Leśniak,  Łódź Kaliska, Lidia Makowska, Honorata Martin, Paweł „Paulus” Mazur,, OBPW, Daniel Odija, Patrycja Orzechowska,  Jagoda i Tomek Owczarek, Mateusz Pęk, Kuba Pieleszek, Barbara Piórkowska, PGR ART, Marek Rogulski, Adam Rzepecki, Adrianna Sitkiewicz, Robert Sochacki, Kasia Swinarska, Ula Wasielewska, Aleksandra Went, Ania Witkowska, Julita Wójcik, Antonio Xavier
Concerts: Prawatt, Gdańsk 2000, Micro Orchestra vs Lidia Visconti

Thursday, 16 September 2010
5.pm.
Book promotion Grass and Poland in Cafe Fikcja, Grunwaldzka 99/101
6 p.m.
opening of Galeria na czas exhibition: Patrycja Orzechowska, Denis, Adrianna Sitkiewicz, Alicja Karska/Aleksandra Went, Katarzyna Swinarska, Ula Wasielewska, Honorata Martin, Kamila i Aleksandra Chomicz, Antonio Xavier, Ania Witkowska, 1st and 4th floor, ground floor windows
6 p.m.
opening of Producenci Kontekstów w obliczu przemian exhibition. part 1: CUKT, ARTI Grabowski, Michał Brzeziński, Jakub Bielawski, Witosław Czerwonka, Adam Rzepecki, Anna Witkowska, OBPW, Marek Rogulski, Ewa Bloom Kwiatkowska, Carmen Feliu,  Robert Sochacki, Mateusz Pęk, Lidia Makowska/Stowarzyszenie Kultura Miejska/ Wrzeszcz.pl  – project author and curator:  Marek Rogulski, Fundacja TNS, basement and ground floor
6.30 – 8.30 p.m.
performance: Daniel Odija, Marcin Dymiter – Podróże w miejscu, curator: Emilia Orzechowska, 1st floor
6.30 –9 p.m.
performance: Barbara Piórkowska, Lumpeks poetycki, 4th floor
7.30-8.30 p.m.
film screening: Rybentrup, screenplay, editing and directing: Tomek and Jagoda Owczarek, Michał Gos, 1st floor
8.30 p.m.
concert: Prawatt, 1st floor
10 p.m.
performance Guitar Grass, the bar

Friday, 17 September 2010
6 p.m.
Opening of  METASURVIVAL. Producenci kontekstów w obliczu przemian . part 2 in Spiż 7 gallery,Chmielna 113: Zuzanna Janin, Roman Bromboszcz, Leszek Brogowski, Wojtek Bruszewski, Łódź Kaliska, Azorro, Anna Leśniak, Julita Wójcik. author and curator: Marek Rogulski, fundacja TNS.
7-9 p.m.
poetic performance, Lumpeks poetycki Barbara Piórkowska, 4th floor
7- 11 p.m.
performance: Daniel Odija/Marcin Dymiter - Podróże w miejscu, curator: Emilia Orzechowska, 1 st floor
7-22 p.m.
film screening: Rybentrup, screenplay, editing and directing: Tomek and Jagoda Owczarek, Michał Gos, 4th floor
8.30 p.m.
concert: Gdańsk 2000, 1st floor
10 p.m.
dj and vj Martin/Wasielewska

Saturday, 18 September 2010
6 p.m.
performance: Widziano Güntera w mieście
6.30- 9 p.m.
performance poetycki Lumpeks poetycki, Barbara Piórkowska, 4th floor
6.30-8.15 p.m.
performance: Denis Cztery witryny – cztery ogrody, ground floor windows
6.30- 8.15 p.m.
performance: Daniel Odija/Marcin Dymiter Podróże w miejscu, curator: Emilia Orzechowska, 1st floor
6.30-8.15 p.m.
film screening: Rybentrup, screenplay, editing and directing: Tomek and Jagoda Owczarek, Michał Gos, 4th floor
8.30 p.m.
concert: Mikro Orchestra and Lidia Visconti, 1st floor
9.30 p.m.
dj, the bar

Projects descriptions:

Podróże w miejscu
Emilia Orzechowska | Marcin Dymiter | Daniel Odija
Performance
How does the time pass when we are listening? How does it pass when we are reading? The performance is a mixture of literature and music. The participants (5-10 persons) will choose what do they want to listen to. They can pick from four positions ( by H.G. Wells, John Cage, Daniel Odija, T.S. Eliot). Each can be received differently, each requires different perception.

Honorata Martin
"Polowanie nocą na przeszłość wśród gruzów, nie do końca jeszcze martwych"
Installation
Honorata Martin will present an unusual installation that was inspired by the place, feeling, and time.

Ula Wasielewska
Installation
Ula Wasielewska  prepared a secret and surprising installation.

Adrianna Sitkiewicz
„Egosymulacja”/ Egosymulation
Installation
Adrianna Sitkiewicz will make a spider cocoon – a place of hibernation – where time has stopped during a temporary revitalisation of the abandoned shopping centre building. The building is brought to life just for a little while only to disappear later. Ones who enter the cocoon will face themselves in a mirror. We realise that the only stimuli that we can react to come from our inner self. We can see that we are condemned to exist in the world of our imagination.

Barbara Piórkowska
„Lumpeks poetycki”
Performance
Barbara Piórkowska – a poet, writer, journalist, literature critic and a performer. She will invite people to share their stories about their visits to “Neptun” shopping centre. The author will record or write the story down and later will create a new text out of all stories. The artist wants to free people from their memories, words and emotions and then check with the “story tellers” how does that make them feel.

"RYBENTRUP"
film
Screenplay, directing, editing: Michał Gos, Jagoda and Tomek Owczarek
Music: Michał Gos, Tomek Owczarek, Olo Walicki
Starring: Olo Walicki, Michał Gos, Jagoda Owczarek, Kamila Szelągowicz, Kuba Owczarek, Tomasz Nowaczyk, Tomasz Owczarek, Beata Czerepak
Rybentrup is an eclectic story about a young man haunted by his past. It's an absurd and schizoid story - with a criminal plot about an avenger fish.

Guitar Grass vs dj Jens
"600 bpm"
video-sonic performance
"600 bpm" is a hypnotic video-sonic performance presented by Guitar Grass and dj Jens. They will mix video projections, brake-core, trash and beats created with analogue and digital sound generators.

„CZASOLOT”
Sculpture-installation
Film: Kamila Chomicz
Sculpture- installation: Aleksandra Chomicz, Antonio Xavier
Centrum Edukacji Twórczej MIRORO
CZASOLOT is a unique time machine made of recycled materials. The artists also prepared a video: a series of interviews with 10-year old children, who took part in a workshop titled “Time in people and legends”.

Paweł „Paulus” Mazur
,,Widziano Güntera w mieście’’
Happening
During the happening a “Günter Grass” will appear in city's characteristic places. The happening will end during the last day of the Festival in front of the “Neptun” building.

Kasia Swinarska
„Dziś wolałabym siebie nie spotkać. Odsłona II”
Video, painting, texts, drawings
The artist wants to show how the time is assigned only by different masks that she puts on, her different incarnations.

Denis
„Cztery witryny – cztery ogrody”
Performance
The artist will turn four windows into black and white gardens made of ornaments, signs, symbols and words. This is a reference to the building that the Festival is taking place in- an old shopping centre, which used to be full of slogans, commercials, posters, logos, brands and numbers.

Dich singe ich, Demokratie / Opiewam Cię, Demokracjo
Günter Grass
Dich singe ich, Demokratie / Opiewam Cię, Demokracjo is a three-day artistic performance in which a group from Kultura Miejska / portal Wrzeszcz.info.pl will present Günter Grass as a person who was very active in politics.

„Panie i Panowie”
Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went
Photographic installation
Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went have been taking pictures of hairdresser salons' signs throughout Europe. The pictures will be shown at the windows of the building ( Grunwaldzka street).

Patrycja Orzechowska
ANTYKALENDARZ
Installation
Anti-calendar is a limited edition 12-pages calendar, but it is not a regular one. The artist was inspired by empty, abandoned offices where she'd found old calendars from last ten years. Anti-calendar is made of pictures of old calendars and shows dates from the past, which makes it totally useless and senseless.

GDAŃSK 2000
Concert
The band will play music with texts of  Günter Grass. GDAŃSK 2000 are Maciej Lubieniecki – (trumpet) Paweł „Paulus” Mazur – (generators, vocal, self-made instruments) and Kacper Ołowski.

Prawatt
Concert
Prawatt are: Jachi – the founder of the band, and automatic percussion constructor), Karol Schwarz (guitar, vocal, generators) and Szymon Albrzykowski (turntables, generators). They will play improvised experimental music ( analogue only, no computers).
www.prawatt.com www.myspace.com/prawatt

MIKRO ORCHESTRA vs LIDIA VISCONTI
Concert
Miko Orchestra and Lidia Visconti ( mezzo-soprano) will perform together in a concert full of contrast.