Małgorzata Goliszewska PORTFOLIO
Graduate of the New Media Faculty at the Academy of Art in Szczecin and the DOK.PRO documentary course at Wajda School in Warsaw. She exhibited her works in Europe, Asia, USA and Africa. She works with various media: video, installation, performance, text, audio, drawing.photo:Bartek Wieczorek for Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation
Małgorzata Goliszewska Born in 1985. Lives in Szczecin (Stettin), Poland. Educated and working both in contemporary art and documentary film, often combining and mixing these two fields of expression.
Contact: tel. +48 516 637 403 email: 71-541,address:goliszewska@gmail.comCyrylaMetodego13/8,Szczecin,Poland
Artist’s Statement I am interested in expanding the boundaries of the documentary and in working directly with other human beings. Actually, there is not much creation in my work; rather, it is a faithful documentary of life as it is. The events that unfold and the people that I meet are the continuing source of my art. What can be seen subsequently in the gallery is just an aftertaste, a nostalgic effort to recreate moments now gone, an effort doomed to failure as the past can never be recaptured. I believe that there is no need to create art. Art is already present everywhere. One can participate in art at any time. I don’t feel like someone who is creating new worlds. I am someone who is trying to take part in a world that is already here.
Education2018-2019 DOK.Incubator - international training programme for documentary professionals organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, venues: Donovaly, Telc, Malmö Each year only 8 film projects are selected to participate. 2018 EX ORIENTE - international training programme for documentary professionals organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, venues: Split, Jihlava and Prague 2017 - 2018 DOC LAB POLAND START and DOC LAB POLAND GO documentary courses organized by the Władysław Slesicki Film Fund in Warsaw 2010 - 2015 Art Academy in Szczecin, Painting and New Media Faculty - Master of Art in 2015 2013 Universitatea de Arta si Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2011-2012 The Wajda Masterschool of Film - DOK.PRO documentary course 2010-2012 Documentary intermedia course POLSKA.DOC in Warsaw organized by the Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” in Warsaw image from: East Doc Forum at EX ORIENTE 2018
2019 Conducting documentary film workshops with children, youth and adults as a part of the We Do. Polish Contemporary Culture Festival in Oslo, Norway.
2014 - 2019 Conducting documentary film workshops with children, youth and adults as a part of the Laboratorium Rejs project, in cities such as: Międzychód, Santok, Miasteczko Krajeńskie, Nakło nad Notecią and Słubice, organized by the Kod_Krowa Association
2011 Conducting a week-long documentary worshop with children from the village of Kołbacz as part of the Flying Animators of Culture project, organized by the ę Association and Spichlerz Sztuki. Work as an educator
2019 Conducting documentary poetry workshops with art students and young people in Szczecin and Warsaw.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Conducting an art workshop with children from an orpanage in Bytom, as a part of the exhibition Watch out! There Are Sharks in the Pond! at CCA Kronika, Bytom 2017 Conducting an art workshop with youngsters from a reformatory youth center in Szczecin as a part of the Art of Culture project, organized by the Culture Incubator in Szczecin
2016 - 2017 Assistant of dr Karolina Breguła at the Critical Film Studio at the Painting and New Media Department, Academy of Art in Szczecin
2013 Conducting an art workshop with children aged from 8 to 12, as a part of the Black Room of Colors exhibition, part of the 13 Sphere festival in 13 Muz in Szczecin
2019 I Wish You All the Best in the World CCA Zielona Góra 2018 I Wish You All the Best in the World CCA Kronika, Bytom 2017 Made for Love (in collaboration with Maria Szydłowska), Madalinskiego 4/4, Poznan 2015 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw Thirty Inkubator Kultury, Szczecin Fantomele SOON_ project at Spectra Art Space, Warsaw the first and the last person must have a dog Leto Gallery, Warsaw 2013 Fantomele (with Artur Rozen), Piwnica Kany, Szczecin I’ll Call You When I Get There Upominki, Rotterdam Works in collections: the Starak Family Foundation collection the Szczecin Zachęta Art Collection the Contemporary Art Collection of the National Audiovisual Institute the PKO Bank art collection the Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation collection
2011 The 3rd young art festival - Przeciąg, Klub 13 Muz, Szczecin 6th Young Art Triennale, Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko Organ Vida International Photography Festival Student Center Gallery, Zagreb Fotofestiwal Łódź Art Center
2015: Test Exposure Wrocław
The Limits of Fashion Bunkier Sztuki, PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW WRO Biennale 2013: Pioneering Values: Separacja Barw. Forward! WRO Atelier, Wrocław UPSIDE ART Willa Lentza / National Museum in Szczecin Black Room of Colours 13 Muz Gallery, Szczecin New Curator’s Forces Collegim Maius, Poznań
Coming
CYFROTEKA,
Budapest
Selected
The Wallenberg-Pachaly palace, Wrocław Loteria, Artel, Poznań Aż nuda się uda BWA Galeria Dizajn, Wrocław Everyday Life in Poland Galeria Arsenał, Poznań Love Pireus - Inkubator Kultury, Poznan
The St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, The Netherlands Digital Thinking Festival, Galeria OFF Piotrkowska, Łódź Biennale Warsaw Groszowe Sprawy - OBROTY, Warszawa Travel ERGO sum Galeria Biała, Lublin Poland of Our Dreams Al. Ujazdowskie 8, Warszawa Home Works WYKWIT, Wrocław Homely Tropics WYKWIT, Wrocław
They are here already National Museum in Szczecin Through the Prism. Second Edition. Arsenał Gallery, Poznań Fantomele. SOON_18 Starak Art Foundation, Warsaw 2014 Towards the West GlogauAIR, Berlin Neighbours
Dans Quelle Vie Tu Monde(s)? Gallerie Rue Francaise by Miss China, Paris Mother’s Day with Małgorzata Goliszewska, BWA Gallery in Kalisz
The European Museum Night - AVI. Video Attractions, Platerówka, Szczecin Analog photography exhibition, The Fountain Alley Gallery, Szczecin Experimental Laboratory, Dłużew New European Underground, Het Nutshuis, The Hague
The Great Globe Art Quarter SUPERMARKET INDEPENDENT ART FAIR Tropic Pavilion, Stockholm Final exhibition of the Starak Family Foundation FORCE FIELD Giudecca Art Island, Venice Queen Bee CCA Kronika, Bytom 2018 Capital. Survival 16 Art Review
The Abandoned Communist Cinema Arsenal, Cetatuie Hill, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
in the Pond! CCA Kronika, Bytom Girlhood lokal_30, Warszawa Von der Seite betrachtet ohne zu schielen Polnisches Institut Berlin Simultaneity of Events CCA Torun Meerschmerz - morze współdzielone. Echo opery BWA Studio, Wrocław 2016 The Dolphin Who Casts a Net Halle 14, Leipzig (NIE)OBECNOSC Labirynt Gallery, Lublin Young Poland Ludvig Museum, Budapest HOME AT LAST:
European Museum Night in Szczecin - Introspection National Museum in Szczecin Pomerania of Art - Identity Willa Lentza, Szczecin / Fabryka Karabinów, Gdańsk
Coming
The Polish Jews History Museum POLIN, Warsaw Sound Developement City Art Tour in Helsinki
Young Forces Labirynt Gallery, Lublin Images that last kolektyw 1a, Poznań Silent Walk Press House, Riga Character Sewing Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane Might and Glory Scena Gallery, Koszalin 2013 2nd International Video Art Festival OZON Galeria Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
Waiting
2020 De Viering van de Onaindigheit
Waiting
The Hestia Artistic Competition Final Exhibition Bracia Jabłkowscy, Warsaw Focus Indonesia National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
2019
2012 Winners of the „Points of View” video festival, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź
2015 Test of Spirit CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Paraflows: Digital Migration Kunstlerhaus, Vienna Nomadic Art Village Hohe Wand, Austria DKV Grand Tour Tossal Gallery, Valencia 16th Media Art Biennale WRO
Vows of Chastidy CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław Mum, I just really need to focus on my art right now Arsenał Gallery, Poznan GMO Kills Honey National Zacheta Art Gallery in Warsaw Pavilion 0 at Palazzo Dona, Venice
Warsaw 2017
The Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Scholarship MOCAK, Kraków for Another CAC Vilnius for Another Ujazdowski Castle, Good Students University of Art in Poznan out! There Are Sharks THE POLISH HOUSE DURING THE TRANSITION Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Social Design for Social Living National Galerry in Jakarta, Indonesia Municipal Observatory: RESOURCES MIŁOSC Gallery, Torun Rage / Submission New Theatre, Warsaw Through the prism. Third edition Neon Gallery, Wrocław group exhibitions
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2019
2019 Main prize of the dok.incubator international programme for professional documentary filmma kers, Malmo, Sweden
2017 HBO Prize at the Kraków Pitching Forum during the 57th Kraków Film Festival
2015 Nomadic Art Village Art Residency, Hohe Wand, Austria Residency at the quartier21, Museumsquartier , Vienna 2014 Residency in Valenzia as the Hestia Art Travel competition winner Mobile Residency in Riga and Helsinki with the Sound Developement City Sommerexpedition Residency at the Władysław Hasior Museum in Zakopane, Poland. Residency at the House of Keret in Warsaw Mobile art residency FOCUS_INDONESIA at the Jatiwangi Art Factory in Indonesia
Selection of prizes won at festivals
2013 7th IN OUT FESTIVAL: Modern forms of rebellion CCA Łaznia, Gdansk - Grand Prix
VI International Short Film Festival ŻubrOFFka, Białystok - Honourable Mention
3rd Video Art Festival Points of View ms2, Łódz - 2nd Prize
2018 Dok Leipzig Prize at the East Doc Platform Pitching Forum in Prague
The Independent Jan Machulski Cinema Prize, category: Best Independent Documentary of 2011. Independent Film Festival CK OFF, Przemyśl, PL - Grand Prix and Audience Prize
2012 The Pressure Cinema Film Festival, Leszno - Honourable Mention
Voivodeship 2015
2012
International Independent Film Festival „Publicystyka”, Kędzierzyn Koźle, PL - I Prize
Dissapearing residency organized by TRAFO and W788, Kozielec 2016 Residency at the MIŁOSC Gallery in Torun
Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements
2018 Polish Film Institute scholarship 2018 Polish Film Institute grant West Pomeranian Film Institute grant 2016 Artistic scholarship of the Marshal of
The Artistic Scholarship of the City of Szczecin 2013 Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Student for outstanding artistic achievements
International Film Festival ZOOM Jelenia Gora - Best Film Prize
The Eye of the Young Festival in Swidnica – Special Prize
To Love a Human Film Festival in Auschwitz – 3rd Prize
Saratov Sufferings Festival, Saratov, Russia - Special Prize
Selected scholarships Selected art residencies and
IV Twisted Films Festival, Lublin, PL - Grand Prix
KolorOFFon Film Festival in Bydgoszcz – Grand Prix
XXI DokumentART Film Festival, Szczecin / Neubrandenburg, PL/DE Westpomeranian shorts - Grand Prix
sOFFa Film Festival, Olsztyn, PL - Grand Prix
Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements
The Golden Anteaters Film Festival, Lublin, PL - III Prize
VI OFFELIADA Film Festival in Gniezno – I Prize
Internationalw Film Festival „Publicystyka”, Kędzierzyn Koźle - Honourable Mention
The Film Mountain Festival, Zielona Góra, PL - Grand Prix - Golden Mountain FAMA International Student Campus, Świnoujście, PL - Honourable Mention
activities 2019
2013 Month residency at Upominki Art Space in Rotterdam
IX Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent Documentary the West Pomeranian
2012 Taking part in an international conference Young Artists Linked In called New European Undergroud as 1 of 5 selected polish artists, The Hague
2014 3rd Striking Film Festival in Gorzów – Honourable Mention
The Artistic Scholarship of the City of Szczecin The Artistic Scholarship of the City of Szczecin Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements other
The National Culture Center’s Scholarship “Young Poland” 2014 Award of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Student for outstanding artistic achievements
XX DokumentART Film Festival, Szczecin/Neubrandenburg, PL/DE Westpomeranian shorts - Grand Prix
The OFF Discovery of the year 2011 - II Prize
Hestia Artistic Journey Special Prize: Art Residency in Valencia
17th Comedy Flm Festival in Lubomierz - Honourable Mention
2011 MUVISH FILM FEST, category: documentary - Grand Prix
The „Pressure Cinema” Film Festival, Leszno, PL - Honourable Mention
Solanin Film Festival, Nowa Sól, PL - I Prize
X Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent Documentary
Filmography 2019 Lessons of Love 73’ documentary, Poland 2016 Cafe Smile 20’ documentary, Poland 2015 Three dreams about Gosia 17’ experimental documentary, Poland 2014 Twins 20’ documentary, Indonesia Eighteen 17’ documentary, Poland 2013 Life at the border 40’ documentary, Poland / Czech Republic I’ll call you when I get there 20’ documentary, Poland / The Netherlands Happiness 7’ documentary, Thailand, in collaboration with Artur Rozen 2012 Who loves me 10’ documentary, Poland This type of birds 12’ documentary, Poland 2011 Dress me 16’ documentary, Poland
Lessons of Love
Glamorous Jola is the brightest star in Café Smile, a dancing club for seniors. But behind her cheerfulness there’s a tragic story. She’s spent 30 years with an alcoholic husband, raising 6 children on her own, working hard to survive. Jola suddenly realizes that she has little time left and decides to experience some joy before dying. “This part of life belongs to me!” – says Jola and runs away from the marital nightmare to her hometown Szczecin, to take control over her life. Finally, she can do what she’s always dreamt of: she fools around with her best friends (Lodzia and Jagoda), she dances, writes poems and songs. In Jola’s eyes, the world is always romantic, colorful, dramatic, grotesque even. Such are her costumes, make-up, decorations in her Italian style villa, as well as her songs. The lyrics introduce us to Jola’s deepest dreams, dilemmas and fears. In her songs
Jola often speaks of love – something that she strongly believes in, yet never truly experienced. She has very little faith in men, but to her surprise, a strong feeling appears between her and Wojtek, one of her admirers from the dancing club. The problem is, that in Italy there is still Bogdan, Jo la’s husband, to whom she promised lifelong fidelity in front of God. “A vow is a vow” believes Jola. Will she leave her past behind and accept new love? Will she give herself a right to joy despite her religious beliefs? Is it something that will make her happy? The film had it’s international premiere at the First Feature Competiton International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in November 2019.
73’ production:documentaryHBO, Widok
Cafe Smile 20’ documentary, 2016 Cafe Smile is a restaurant in Szczecin, active for more than 50 years. It hosts weekly dances for senior citizens. These events have their regulars who wait all week to dance to their favourite songs, performed live by the Savio Band (Robert and Paulina). The film “Lesson of Love” is a portrait of the place and a collective portrait of its dancers. There is a number of characters, each over 60 years of age, each with a different baggage of experience and different expectations from life and from dancing. They share a love for dance and a longing for love.Each of the characters has a lot of golden advice on love. They share their wisdom with the film director, a young girl with her own dilemmas. It turns out, however, that in the theme of love and relationships, we are all equally confused. All we have left is to dance.
The project is continued with other people who had dreams about me. watch here: https://vimeo.com/130967441
Three dreams about Gosia 17’ 2015 experimental documentary in collaboration with Rafał Zarski
The film is based on three dreams that Rafał Zarski had in a short period of time. The fig ure of Małgorzata Goliszewska plays an important role in each of these dreams. In an at tempt to understand those dreams and their hidden meaning (if any), Zarski and Golisze wska decide to replay and recreate everything that happend. Additionally, they ask three different dream interpreteurs about their opinion. The narrator tries to reconstruct particular images from his subconscious, arranging them into a coherent whole. The visual layer of the film is made up of images designed to reproduce individual dreams as faithfully as possible. Apart from traditional video, it uses such techniques as green box and animation. This results in a dreamy film collage.
I continue the Twins project in other countries. watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8u01vlxB4
Twins 20’ documentary,2014, Indonesia The film was made during a mobile art residency FOCUS_AIR_INDONESIA_2014 organised by the UPSIDE ART Fundation. The main part of the residency took place in the Jatiwangi Art Factory.
I spent 24 hours with her, following her everyday life rhytm and accompanying her in her usual tasks. We slept in one bed, prayed together in the mosque, cooked, cleaned and made laundry together. I was surprised with all the attention that the people from the village gave me. They told me that this is the first time a white woman visits Burujul. Everybody wanted to have a photo with me and in every moment I was surrounded with groups of children. This made the whole project different than I im agined. But the kindness, trust and the way everybody invited me to their lives, was a big deal for me.
I found my indonesian astrological twin sister, born on the same date as me, that is 12.06.1985. She lives in a small village - Burujul and her name is Nining. She has two children and a husband. She doesn’t speak english. She is muslim and she has never been abroad. Her husband is a riksha driver.
eighteen 17’ documentary,2013 Poland In this film, archive footage from a VHS tape from 2003 are remixed with present interviews with people involved in the events on the tape and with a music video associated with those events by one of the Myinterviewees.eighteenth birthday was always a big trauma for me. I organized a giant party in an abandoned house, with 4 DJs and 100 people invited, most of which I didn’t know personally. At the beginning of the party I got so drunk that I couldn’t participate in it anymore. I woke up in the morning to see a devastated house full of strangers. Five of my friends, who were at this party, tries to reconstruct their and mine memories after 11 years. It is accompanied by the Prodigy - No good music video - an unfullfilled ideal of that party. watch here: https://youtu.be/2wVQH0x9bpk
tectingWeourminds,oftenintervenewithourconsciousnesssothatwestarttobelieveinthemactuallybeingtrue.trytoprotecttheonesthatwelovethemost,buthowdoweknowwhencaringandproturnsintoinvigilationorevenanobsession?Theimpossibilitytopredictwhatcanhappennextisthemainreasontobeafraidandworryaboutone’sfuture.Howevertheartistwonderswouldtherebeanyjoyinlifewithouttheideaofunpredictability?watchhere:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r80kN98Jzx0
The film is a result of a month-long art residency at Upominki Art Space in Rotterdam. The curator of the project is Weronika Zielinska. from the curators description: (...) we had no specific expectations for Goliszewska’s contribution in this project. Yet when travelling by train to Rotterdam, the artist encountered a number of events, which irreversibly influenced her Beingapproach.desperateandtiredofnotbeingabletorunawayfromthatsituation,Goliszewskadecidedtogive upfightingit,andletitbe.Now,aftersometimespendonworkinginRotterdam,shebecametorealise that such gift of unforeseen events each time brings new subjects into her work. While focusing on the ideas of control and identity, „I’ll call you when I get there” illustrates how the stories that we create in
I’ll call you when I get there 20’ documentary,2013 Poland / Netherlands
Producer: Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych poster: Agata Królak From the review by Tadeusz Sobolewski: Małgorzata Goliszewska, a student from the Art Academy in Szczecin, made a funny film „This type of birds”, about a vegetable shop, besieged by people and pigeons. The owner sells fruits and veg etable, and at the same time feeds the birds. Invisible, he speaks from inside of the booth and is in a constant dialogue with the world, like an ancient greek philosopher. Sometimes, he gives someone a pear for free. The clients come to him, to gossip and to confess, and he talks with everyone. For this man,sellingisareasontomeetpeople.Heteachesushowtotalkandhowtotakecareofeachother.
The film was realised as a part of the POLAND.DOC. workshop, organised by the Creative Initiatives Association in Warsaw and it was partially financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Her watchitage. here: https://vimeo.com/35225274
This type of birds 12’, documentary,2012 Poland artistic mentors: Paweł Łozinski and Jakub Piatek
X Happy End Festival in Rzeszow Prize for Best Independent Documentary
The Jan Machulski Independent Cinema Prize category: Best Independent Documentary Independent Film Festival CK OFF Przemysl - Grand Prix and Audience Prize
The Film Mountain Festival Zielona Góra - Grand Prix
Dress me is part of the Contemporary Art Collection of the National Audiovisual Institute and can be viewed online at http:// ninateka.pl/film/ksw-malgorzata-goliszewska-ubierz-mnie
It was screened in polish TV stations: TV KINOPOLSKA and TVP KULTURA in the period 2012-2015
IV Twisted Films Festival Lublin - Grand Prix
Selected Awards: 7th IN OUT FESTIVAL: Modern forms of rebellion CCA Łaznia, Gdansk - Grand Prix
Dress me 16’ documentary,2011 Poland All my life I’ve been criticized by the people who surround me about the way I look. Eventually I decided to let them be in charge and tell me how to dress and finally see the image of me they’ve been dreaming of. I let my mother, my grandma and my best friend to dress me for five days. The effects surprised everybody, mostly me.
III Video Art Festival Points of View ms2, Łódz - 2nd Prize
selected solo exhibitions I Wish You All the Best in the World 26.06.2018, CCA Kronika, Bytom 15.07.2019 CCA Zielona Góra curators: Agata Cukierska and Katarzyna Kalina So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! 10.12.2015, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw curator: Stach Szabłowski Thirty 12.06.2015, Inkubator Kultury, Szczecin curator: Małgorzata Goliszewska Masters Diploma at the Art Academy in Szczecin the last and the first person must have a dog 07.02.2015, Leto Gallery, Warsaw curator: Sebastian Gawłowski
After going through a stage of total disappointment with men and feverish searches for understanding, Goliszewska experiences a moment of relief - in the warmth and wisdom of the mature women that surround her. In such a group, conversations are not the most important thing, sometimes it is just enough to dance.
I Wish You All the Best in the World 26.06.2018 - 29.06.2018, CCA Kronika, Bytom curators: Agata Cukierska and Katarzyna Kalina I’ve read a lot of self-help books: Polish, American, scientific, esoteric, psychological online, I became an expert. For three years I lived surrounded by advice, tips and cautions.
(...) The viewer enters a world of a complicated mother-daughter relationship. As the artist admits, this bond was the beginning of her artistic path, and art served as a form of therapy back then. The tragi comical overtone of this relationship gave Goliszewska no choice but to focus on it with her art practice.
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The artist, seeing her mother’s life failures, does not want to repeat them, so in her adult life she searches for a new source of knowledge and experience. On the way, she meets many mentors, guides and teachers. She seeks masters of truth in astrologists and authors of dozens of self-help books. She looks for her new guide, and after an ini tial euphoria when she finds one, an inevitable crisis occurs and she starts her search anew. She meets Jolka, a woman in her sixties, with a brutal past, who despite her age and difficult ex periences, starts singing again and dreaming about her first love. At the same time, the art ist accidentally meets a retired natural sciences professor, who turns out to be an expert in love and who secretly writes and publishes self-help books under the nickname of Alina Dunin. (...)
On the 8th of August 2015 two bottlenose dolphins were seen in the Baltic Sea, near Hel. Since then, they didn’t leave me alone. I had to make this exhibition. Let this be that first, symbolic kiss. My first impulse was to devote a major part of the show’s budget to help dolphins and induce some real change. However, after long research and after consulting experts, I understood that dolphins wouldn’t find money helpful in any way. Therefore, I travelled to Egypt – a place that provided the highest chanc es of meeting dolphins in their natural environment – planning to shoot a movie. There were several short and very emotional meetings, but I did not manage to document any of them. The film that was created as a result shows my intense longing for the next, even closer contact.
So long, and thanks for all the fish! 10.12.2015 - 10.01.2016, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw curator: Stach Szabłowski Since I was a child, I had a dream of meeting an alien (someone not from this Earth) and kissing them. It took me some time to understand that every human and every being in this world would be suitable for this. Alienness began to unfold itself in front of me. Then, there was a yearning for meeting a higher, more evolved civilization, that ours could learn from. Recently I was struck by the fact that such commu nity is living on our planet and developing their culture since 30 milion years, in contrast to our short 200 000 year history. This wonderful civilization inhabits the watery part of the Earth, much greater than ours and mostly untouched, yet undiscovered by us. They are the hosts and we are the aliens here. We are the ones making the mess and they are the ones who can’t keep up cleaning it.
Thirty 12.06.2015, Inkubator Kultury, Szczecin curator: Małgorzata Goliszewska Thirty was a one day long event, which consisted of an art exhibition, 2 concerts and one drag queen performance, and a 30th birthday party of seven women from Poland, Indonesia, Macedonia, Spain, Israel and Latvia. All of this was presented as a Master of Art diploma, together with the Master thesis on Thesisterhood.exhibition presented 6 different videos, each one documenting a 24-hour process that I spent with each of the sisters. Each video had a different style. Some were looped fragments, some looked like typical documentaries, one was extremely slowed down. Five of the seven astrological twin sisters came to Szczecin to celebrate their birthday and meet each other. Their presence and the party itself were the most important works of art. Additionally, there was an astrologer present, giving astrologic advice for free. The project Twin sisters is ongoing .
the last and the first person must have a dog 07.02.2015 - 07.03.2015, Leto Gallery, Warsaw curator: Sebastian Gawłowski from the curator’s text: Over three years Goliszewska recorded the sounds she made in her sleep, sounds that she hadn’t re andThememberedmaking,soundsthatcameabout,itwouldseem,outsideoftheartist’sownconsciousness.recordingsdepictarangeofinarticulatenoisesandsmackinglipstowords,phrases,sentencessongs.Therecordingsformedasortofsleepjournal.Thewordsandphrasesarearticulatedina remarkably expressive manner – woven through with astonishment, enthusiasm and engagement. In some instances it’s almost impossible to believe it’s the voice of someone who’s asleep. (...) We have, thus, the title of the exhibition, taken from the sleeping artist’s first recorded uttering, which doesn’tfollowanyrulesofgrammarorpunctuation,itknowsnocommasorcapitalletters.Goliszewska stakes out her own self in a situation where “I” becomes completely alien and unpredictable. It’s still nizable.hervoice,hermannerofspeakingandarticulation,butthewordsarenolongerfamiliarorevenrecog(...)Theshowiscrownedwithasong,orrather,theloopedphrase:“butIdon’tknowhowthat goes in life”, sung by Goliszewska in a hypnotic tone. The phrase becomes a mantra springing from doubtsconcerning“real-life”andareversaltowardstherealityofsleepandone’sowninnerworkings.
After years of documenting the outside world, Goliszewska has chosen to follow the words of Jung: “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”.
other works Astrological Twin Sisters, ongoing since 2014 In My Sleep, ongoing since 2012 2019 score, 2019 The Proffesional, 2018 I Miss No One, 2016 Messages (I go), 2014 Everything, 2013 Zen, 2013 The Flag, 2012
A performative project, ongoing since February 2014
Astrological Twin Sisters
The project is based on the idea of finding one’s astrological twin, a person born on the same date and year.I am searching for my astrological twin sisters around the world, women born on 12.06.1985 I have already found my twin sisters in a small village in Indonesia, in the capital of Macedonia: Skop je, in a small city near to Riga, Latvia, in Barcelona,in Tel Aviv and Kaunas in Lithuania. I also found one in Poland, who is actually a man, but performing at night as Drag Queen Charlotte. The sisters met each other on 12.06.2015 - our 30th birthday in Szczecin, Poland. This was a birthday party, exhi bition and my Fine Art Masters Diploma. I have spent 24 hours with those sisters, living their everday life with them. The process is very simple: I always ask the sisters to let me spend 24 hours with them and to record it and also not to make this a special day and not to treat me like a guest, more like a „shadow” of their life. It’s like saying: “Hey, I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but let’s be sisters for one day!”. I use this as an opportunity to see how different women of the same age live around the world. I ask about differences and simmilarities.The “Twins” project is an attempt to examine women’s life situa tions all over the world and concentrate on the similarities and differences. It is also a quest exploring the idea of feminity, womenhood, sisterhood, being a stranger, an alien and being close to someone, asking about the global humankind family. The outcome is usually a video, each time different in form. But that is just a documentation of the process that happend beetween two people. And only these two people were the real viewers. How do the countries we live in influence us? What makes a sister a sister?And what makes a stranger a stranger? Are we really so far away from each other? These are the questions I would like to try anwsering with the project „Twins”.
In My Sleep audio documentary project, ongoing since 2012 „In my sleep” involves sound recording every night and capturing the words I speak in my sleep. I speak much, almost every night and the language I speak in is different, depending on the country I am in. After one week of recording I have about 30 seconds of monologue. I inspire myself later with those words (which never remember that I have said and which each time surprise me and scare me a little bit). During 3 years, I’ve collected 30 minutes of sleeptalking, which have been published by the polish Super label and can be listened to https://super-label.bandcamp.com/album/ostatnia-i-pierwsza-osoba-musi-mie-psahere:
The work is 60 seconds long but it can be played any number of times, virtually indefinitely. Then, it becomes a real-time reflection of the events happening worldwide.
For example: right now, the following events take place every 60 seconds: 9 AIDS / HIV diagnoses, 59 marriages, 258 births, 108 deaths, 18 deaths of hunger, 120 people are killed in accidents, 58 airplanes take off, Bill Gates earns 15,000 dollars, US national debt increases by 3 million dollars, 5 earthquakes, 2,800 trees are cut down, an average man thinks about sex 10 times, 300,000 tons of ice melt in Antarctica, 7 new Wikipedia articles are published, and 5 books are published.
When we combine those individual sounds, the rigourous, sober and objective statistical data begins to generate music, which may illustrate the rhythm of our human world
2019 Score video 1’, music score, 2019 2019 score is a one-minute documentary musical piece. It is based on statistics reflecting seleced aspects of human life on Earth. Each of the instrumental tracks illustrates one of the statistics. This piece can be performed by any group of musicians. Before performing, each of the musicians chooes one statistic and then rolls a twelve sided dice to determine the pitch of sound to be played.
The Professional interactive performance, confesional, video screen, 2018
During the 2018 SURVIVAL Art Festival in Wrocław, visitors could at certain times confess their good deeds in a real renessaince wooden confessional. There was always someone sitting inside and lis tening. We collected 403 good deeds in 5 days. They were written down everyday and subsequently displayed on a screen. Everyday there were more and more good deeds on the screen. We used a screen that is normaly used in polish churches for displaying the lirycs of religious songs. A professional is the opposite of a confessional. It is a space in which one’s good deeds are con fessed – both small and lifechanging ones. Before going to the professional, you remind yourself of moments when you behaved selflessly and momentarily existed only for others. Here you won’t hear clichéd formulas, punishments and rewards, praises and reprimands or feel a sense of guilt. There are only facts – how many good deeds you have accumulated. In the Professional we are pro- not con-. We concentrate on what was good and how we can create more of it. The work was created and performed by the Dracena Collective: Małgorzata Goliszewska, Szymon Wojtyła and Justyna Popławska
I Miss No One 3’33’’ and 21’46’’ videoperformance,2016two-channel
After a series of painful breakups, disappointments and so-called heartbrakes, I be gan to seriously wonder about the fact that some couples manage to survive in happi ness, love and peace for many years and others, despite the best intentions, part in great pains. Do those happy couples know something or have something that others are missing? Is love a non-renewable resource? How can you deal with it wisely enough to last for years? I was looking for answers in Bristol and Teatralna dancing clubs, among the patients from Ciechocinek - mar ried and single men in retirement age, older people and so much more experienced than me. They advised, warned, comforted, assured and even recited poems of their authorship. My last dance was with my father. After leaving the dancefloor I did not feel wiser in any way. These conversations discouraged me from relationships. I was not sure if I still want to play this game. As provided by spa patients, at my young age, the resource of potentially interested men is enormous. After logging into several web portals, I found that indeed, it seems infinite. For now, I watch them all from a safe distance. This project was realized as a part of the art residency in MIŁOSC Gallery in Torun, summer 2016.
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Messages (I go) Every5’videoperformance2014daythousands of messages are addressed to us. Streets, screens, billoards, papers and other people, speak to us in every second. In this performance I am walking through Szczecin streets and speaking aloud every message that I see and that is addressed to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrbM3n2BQAwatch:
Everything. Google’s Suggestions for my IP. (Bachelor diploma) 2013 a book of documentary poetry, 50 pages 16 videos, together 60’ You can enter anything into the search box. The computer does not judge us, so we can give it our unlimited trust and ask questions that we would not dare to speak out loud. Every day Google remem bers millions of personal secrets and confessions of anonymous users. These statistics are some times frightening and sad. Why after typing: “my father is” the most popular three phrases we receive are: “beating me, harass ing me, molestsing me”? After typing: “I do not want” the first place displays “to live” and after “I hate” in turn: “myself, people and my job”. I am interested in confronting the viewers, with their own fears, thoughts, dreams, secrets, filtered in the ocean of the internet and thrown ashore in the form of Google search suggestions. I present them in the form of poetry, comparable to a short haiku. I hope that such poems can function independent ly in the world of poetry and art, not always necessarily combined with Google search. I hope that the recipient will learn from these poems something about themselves, about the Polish online community, and also indirectly and about me. And after reading it will open the browser itself and start exploring this world on their own. I dreamed of a child I dreamed that I died I dreamed that I have cancer I dreamed that I was kissing I dreamed that I was peeing I dreamed that I dreamed I dreamed that I gave birth to a child I dreamed that in a beautifull garden I met I dreamed that I was pregnant why does the head hurt why do farts smell bad why do the ovaries hurt why does does the sponge cake fall why doesn’t blaszczykowski like lewandowski why god doesn’t listen to me why not why does my abdomen hurt why bvb why does the stomach hurt
Seven loading icons are spinning constantly in never-closing circles. The modern popular internet symbol, which symbolises waiting is very similar to the Zen philosophy symbol - a snake eating it’s own tail. Each of the icons is accompanied by a sound of one of seven Tibethian Zen bowls, The sound is made by rubbing the bowl with a constant, circle movement. Spinning happens in every second of our lives, in every atom of our bodies, in every planet of the universe. Even the smallest elements are in the state of constant spinning. It’s a nev erending process, the condition of existence. Realising this, enables to see the definition of the universe in each of the spinning icons. This work is an invitation to meditate on the circle symbol and an opportunity to be here and now for a while. Zen 7 channel video installation with sound, 2013
Even the most silly polish song one could ever think of, has a sense of sacredness hidden inside of it. watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXThMkgsagY
The Flag video, 24’ 2012 The work consists of 3 elements:
The object - a transparent flag, the same size as a typical polish flag
The video - the flag with the sky in the background, should be played in an endless loop.
The anthem - a polish disco-polo song: „Majteczki w kropeczki” („Dotted panties”) by the band Bayer Full, streched 800 times in the program PauliStretch.
