Monika Karczmarczyk
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19.06.2017
A performative performance with the participation of a group of 10 young men, who in real time generate sound by using blankets made of a mixture of natural and synthetic fibers.
The point of departure for the project was the sound made by the prisoners of Siedlce Penitentiary while they were flapping their blankets, provoking me to reflect on the opposition between my own blanket – assuring me security and warmth – and a blanket in a group action, which is a kind of drill. The drill creates order as well as a community in which a multiplicity of individual bodies mutates into a single synchronized organism. The harmony of movement influences the intensity of the sound. The power of sound becomes a representation of the discipline in group action. In a collective sound comprised of flapping, the blanket becomes an organizing agent.
The composition of the work consists of 10 sequences, each with 10 flaps, from which the sound is generated. Sound composition is an interpretation of a specific room within the space of the bus depot halls on Włościańska Street in Warsaw. I chose this site because of the nature of the work realized there: the former warehouse containing bus parts is an element of industrial space, which is characterized by discipline and physical effort. The architecture of this room – which is rhythmic and orderly, thereby imposing dynamics and discipline on the movements trying to describe it – plays a significant role. In my choreography, the sound describes the space, its character, as well as its properties.