Jesper Just, Bliss and Heaven, 2005, 8:10 min, Super 16mm
Sorrow Conquers Happiness
OFF Festival 2009, 6 Portowa street, Mysłowice
exhibition – 24hour cinema open from Thursday 6 August (3 pm) until Sunday 9 August (10 am).
Opening – Thursday 6 August (8 pm), 6 Portowa street, Mysłowice (DJ set SJON SJAN
DJ KRIME). Later, at night TROPAJN’s concert (place: Tree Emperors Triangle in Mysłowice). TROPAJN's concert was registered you can listen it here.
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Artists: Johanna Billing, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Jesper Just, Joanna Rajkowska, Salla Tykkä.
Like last year exhibition Something must break, which was a kind of soundtrack for city of Mysłowice, this year project Sorrow Conquers Happiness (the title derive from Ragnar Kjartansson’s film God) also fits into context of musical OFF Festival.
In abandoned magazine, which once was a hotel and restaurant for inland navigation professionals, at 6 Portowa street in Mysłowice we’ve created expanded in time cinema, which has taken its inspiration from grindhouse cinemas from 60s and 70s. Looped, 3 hour long film set has been accessible for viewers non-stop for 3 days. It was focused on issues like despair, failure, exhaustion and melancholy in contemporary video art, as well as connections between film and music. Our exhibition has been a kind of chillout space for festival public.
Jesper Just – ok. 63’
Bliss and Heaven (2005) – 10’05’’
A Fine Romance Trilogy (2004): The Sweetest Embrace of All, No Man Is An Island II, A Fine Romance – 15’22’’
Something lo love (2005) – 9’48’’
Vicious undertow (2007) – 10’00’’
A question of silence (2008) – 6’18’’
A voyage in Dwelling (2008) – 11’11’’
Salla Tykka – ok. 21’
Lasso (2000) – 3’48’’
Thriller (2001) – 6’50’’
Cave (2003) – 9’58’’
Johanna Billing – ok. 45’30’’
Missing out (2001) – 9’29’’
You don’t love me yet (2003) – 7’49’’
This is How we Walk on The Moon (2007) – 28’
Joanna Rajkowska – ok. 17’
Spacer (2007) – 16’49’’
Agnieszka Brzeżańska – ok. 33’
Music and Dance (2006-2008) – 33’
curators: Małgorzata Mleczko i Patrycja Musiał (No Local Foundation), Stanisław Ruksza (CoCA Kronika)
cooperation: Sebastian Cichocki (MSN in Warsaw)
Johanna Billing (1973) – Swedish artist, founder of independent record label Make it Happen. Exhibited in PS1, Tate Modern, Documenta 12, 9th Istanbul Biennale, 1st Moscow Biennale. In her works she examines problems of individual, ones frustration and isolation. She shows what it means to be alone in a group. Her pieces document emotions created during filming. Sound and music are as important as the image itself.
Agnieszka Brzeżańska (1972) paints, draws, photographs, makes films with mobile phone. She builds history of everything that is close, registers small spectacles of reality but also not easily visible flaws in delicately constructed myths. She mixes critical view with fascination on reality.
Jesper Just (1974) - he creates full of suspense, dusky, sensual narrations that plays with light, music and image. He captures human emotions, excavates sadness, melancholy, regret but also indifference and passiveness of film characters’. Just is interested in masculinity condition, relation between different generations as well as issues of vanishing and memory. His films are in collections of Tate, Castello di Rivoli and Carnegie Museum of Art.
Salla Tykkä (1973) – her international career developed after presentation during Venice Biennale in 2001. Artist refers to classics of the film history. Thanks to images and music accumulates emotions in unexpected scale. She uses allusion, and escalates mystery. Her films are oniric, action takes place in vague circumstances, connections between characters are ambiguous.
Joanna Rajkowska (1968) – one of the most important Polish artists. In her works she raise issues like public space, esthétique relationnelle, minority, violence, trauma, history and memory. She is politically engaged activist.
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Sunday, 9 August 3pm – Robert Kuśmirowski’s concert
OFF Festival 2009, 6 Portowa street, Mysłowice