Let’s listen intently into a current of events, history, and experience that exists beyond time, and whose archetype is given by the river Wieprz.
What is the narration?
Do people and animals living under it create a society?
Is silence by the river possible?
What does it mean?
Close your eyes and let’s listen intently to a pounding with life water.
The Atlas of the River Wieprz is a multimedia presentation archive – registered and artistically converted phenomenon connected to a river where sound and image subjected to artistic live intervention are the main components. Sound and visual materials collected by the river are being mixed with modular synthesizer and video mixer of own design. It is a hybrid play, that from one side is a story about the river Wieprz and our relation to it, and on the other hand builds speculative stories and gives full reign to imagination by going into a cosmic-future narration.
Concept, image, sound, and creation: Ludomir Franczak and Piotr Pękala (abq)
Voice: Dominika Kryj
Ludomir Franczak – visual artist, theatre director, scenographer, and curator. His works are presented in galleries, theatre, public spaces, and festivals in Poland and around the world (e.g. Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain, Great Britain). He works with musicians (Marcin Dymiter, Robert Curgenven, Piotr Pękala), visual artists (Magdalena Franczak, Sebastian Buczek), and theatres (Schaubude/Berlin, Cross Attic/Praga, Tatwerk/Berlin, Szwalnia/Łódź), he is a member of collective creating the Polish pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial in 2023.
He focuses on the issues connected with memory, identity, and activism. He builds complex projects through intermedia actions using visual art, history and literature. He is an author of an artistic publishers, and sound recordings. He also works in creative collectives.
Piotr Pękala – a graduate of Culture Studies Institute at UMCS in Lublin. He is a curator of interdisciplinary art projects. He has undertaken a number of initiatives promoting experimental electronic music. He records and performs under the pseudonym "abq". In his works, he uses modular synthesizer. His compositions and improvised live performances oscillate around various trends in experimental electronic music, such as drone, ambient, noise. So far, he has published two EPs "abq_spinoza" inspired by the writings of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and the EPs "[abq_cave]" and [die oder]. He is active within the "ende neu" initiative, within which he has collaborated with visual artists and intellectuals.
Let’s listen intently into a current of events, history, and experience that exists beyond time, and whose archetype is given by the river Wieprz.
What is the narration?
Do people and animals living under it create a society?
Is silence by the river possible?
What does it mean?
Close your eyes and let’s listen intently to a pounding with life water.
The Atlas of the River Wieprz is a multimedia presentation archive – registered and artistically converted phenomenon connected to a river where sound and image subjected to artistic live intervention are the main components. Sound and visual materials collected by the river are being mixed with modular synthesizer and video mixer of own design. It is a hybrid play, that from one side is a story about the river Wieprz and our relation to it, and on the other hand builds speculative stories and gives full reign to imagination by going into a cosmic-future narration.
Concept, image, sound, and creation: Ludomir Franczak and Piotr Pękala (abq)
Voice: Dominika Kryj
Ludomir Franczak – visual artist, theatre director, scenographer, and curator. His works are presented in galleries, theatre, public spaces, and festivals in Poland and around the world (e.g. Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain, Great Britain). He works with musicians (Marcin Dymiter, Robert Curgenven, Piotr Pękala), visual artists (Magdalena Franczak, Sebastian Buczek), and theatres (Schaubude/Berlin, Cross Attic/Praga, Tatwerk/Berlin, Szwalnia/Łódź), he is a member of collective creating the Polish pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial in 2023.
He focuses on the issues connected with memory, identity, and activism. He builds complex projects through intermedia actions using visual art, history and literature. He is an author of an artistic publishers, and sound recordings. He also works in creative collectives.
Piotr Pękala – a graduate of Culture Studies Institute at UMCS in Lublin. He is a curator of interdisciplinary art projects. He has undertaken a number of initiatives promoting experimental electronic music. He records and performs under the pseudonym "abq". In his works, he uses modular synthesizer. His compositions and improvised live performances oscillate around various trends in experimental electronic music, such as drone, ambient, noise. So far, he has published two EPs "abq_spinoza" inspired by the writings of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and the EPs "[abq_cave]" and [die oder]. He is active within the "ende neu" initiative, within which he has collaborated with visual artists and intellectuals.