No Local Foundation would like to invite you for the sixth ART IN CINEMA video-art show. On Wednesday, the 29th of October at 7.00 pm in Kino pod Baranami in Kraków there will take place a screening of video works by Tomek Kozak.
Before the screening Stach Szabłowski will make a talk on the artist’s works. After the show Tomek Kozak will talk about his works.
Tomek Kozak was born in 1971. He graduated in 1997 from the Department of Painting and Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He paints, makes animations, video art, collages, and sculptures. He lives and works in Lublin.
In his video works Tomek Kozak uses found footage technique, which enables him to construct his films out of parts of films made by other directors. The artist claims that the main aim of such a procedure is to revise – and revitalize – modern mythology. In his works Kozak uses the language of contemporary cinema and analyses fundamental phantasms of modernity. In his films the mythologized models of religion, history, and sexuality are ironically redefined. This way the artist creates a subversive and ambiguous image of Polish and Western culture. An exemplary realisation of this kind (and at the same time one of the most interesting of Kozak’s works) is the first film of the screening entitled Klasztor Inversus (Inverus Monastery, 2003). It combines fragments of Potop (The Flood) and Pan Wołodyjowski by Jerzy Hoffman. Kozak created an alternative version of Sinkiewicz’s Trilogy. The romantic protagonist from Sienkiewicz’s novel becomes an anti-Kmicic – a traitor, a sodomite, and a blasphemer who doesn’t protect the fortress of Jasnogóra, but attacks it with a horde of his look-alikes.
A situation which will take place during the screening will be special. Works of the artist who uses a medium typical for cinema productions – feature film – will be presented in their subversive versions in a screening room, where everything began.
Partner: Lokal_30
Programme:
KLASZTOR INVERSUS (Inversus Monastery) 12’
SEX UND CHARAKTER 4’22’’
ZMURZYNIENIE – HISTORIA PEWNEJ METAFORY (Getting Black – A History of a Metaphor) 20’
LEKCJA LUCYFERYCZNA (Luciferic Lesson) 24’16’’
SONG OF SUBLIME 11’32’’
