małgorzata goliszewska

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małgorzata goliszewska

Born in 1985 in Szczecin, Poland. Student at the Multimedia Arts Faculty at the Art Academy in Szczecin.In 2012 she finished the DOK.PRO documentary course at the Wajda School in Warsaw and in 2013 she studied at the Arts and Design University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

She works with various media (film, video, installation, performance, text, audio, drawing).She is interested in broadening the borders of documentary and in working directly with other human beings.

contact:tel. +48 516 637 403email: goliszewska@gmail.comaddress: Cyryla i Metodego 13/8, 71-541, Szczecin, Polandblog: http://goliszewska.blogspot.com

Solo exhibitions:

2015Thirty, Inkubator Kultury, Szczecin, PLFantomele, SOON_ project at Spectra Art Space, Warsawthe first and the las person must have a dog, Leto Gallery, Warsaw

2013Fantomele, Piwnica Kany, Szczecin, PolandI’ll call you when I get there, Upominki, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Selected group exhibitions:

2015DKV Grand Tour, Tossal Gallery, Valencia,16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015: Test Exposure, PLThrought the prism, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, PLFortune-telling from books, Acapulco, Szczecin, PL

2014Towards the West, GlogauAIR, BerlinNeighbours, The Polish Jews History Museum POLIN, WarsawSound Developement City Art Tour in Helsinki, FinlandThe Hestia Artistic Competition Final Exhibition, Warsaw, PolandCharacter sewing, Wladyslaw Hasior Gallery, Zakopane, PolandFocus Indonesia, National Museum in Szczecin, Poland

2013UPSIDE ART, Willa Lentza / The National Museum, Szczecin, PolandThe black room of colors, 13 muz gallery, Szczecin, PolandOFF MARINA, Szczecin, Poland2nd International Video Art Festival OZON, Galeria Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PolandVows of Chastidy - CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław, PolandMum, I just really need to focus on my art right now, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, PolandGMO kills honey, National Zacheta Art Gallery in Warsaw, PolandSzczecin United Arts Festival, Łasztownia, Szczecin, PolandPavilion 0 at Palazzo Dona, Venice, ItalyThe Abandoned Communist Cinema, Arsenal, Cetatuie Hill, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaThe Limits of Fashion, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOWWRO Biennale 2013: Pioneering Values: Separacja Barw. Forward!, WRO Atelier, Wrocław, Poland

2012Winners of the „Points of View” video festival, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, PolandThe European Museum Night - AVI. Video Attractions, Platerówka, Szczecin, PolandAnalog photography exhibition, The Fountain Alley Gallery, Szczecin, PolandExperimental Laboratory, Dłużew, PolandNew European Underground, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands

2011The 3rd young art festival - Przeciąg, Klub 13 Muz, Szczecin, Poland6th Young Art Triennale, Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland

Selected interviews and publications:

2014

Notes Na 6 Tygodni - The most interesting there is, is what is. [Najciekawsze jest to, co jest]Reflektor Magazine – Małgorzata Goliszewska: My weapon is naivety. [Moją bronią jest naiwność.]

2013

www.wszczecinie.pl - It’s easier to understand through art [Łatwiej wszystko zrozumieć poprzez sztukę – Elżbieta Sej]PUNKT #11 Magazine – Małgorzata Goliszewska – Perfect Imperfection (visual essay)Kurier Metropolitalny - interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska, author: E. KolanowskaSky Surfer magazine 04/2013 - interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska, author: Justyna NowaćWysokie Obcasy [High Heels magazine] No 24(731) - interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska, author: Ewa PodgajnaThe Abandoned Communist Cinema exhibition catalogue by Mieke MullerInterview for Moje Miasto Szczecin [My City Szczecin] magazine Gazeta Wyborcza Szczecin: She made a film and healed the family! author:Ewa Podgajnazp.pl - On the other side of the screen. An interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska.Dwutygodnik.com, No. 96. 11/2012 - Dress me

2012

Gazeta Wyborcza Polska.doc. Search close to yourself. Tadeusz SobolewskiPolska.doc Portfolio 2012, The Creative Initiatives Association32/5: A sound-image-poetry audiobook, author: Małgorzata GoliszewskaMAKE8ELIEVE magazine #01 02/2012 : Dinosaurs (FR)stopklatka.pl - Artur Cichmiński, interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska

2011

Mint Magazine (GB): Małgorzata Goliszewska: Transnistria, the unknown terrority.The 6th Young Art Triennale Catalogue, Kamil KuskowskiMagazyn SIC! [#11] 09/2011: Photos in the closet, an interview with Małgorzata Goliszewska

Prizes won at festivals:

2014

3rd Film Festival in Gorzów, PL – Honourable MentionThe Eye of the Young Festival in Świdnica, PL – Special PrizeHestia Artistic Journey – Special Prize: Art Residency in Valencia“To Love a Human” Film Festival in Auschwitz, PL – III Prize

2013

7. IN OUT FESTIVAL: Modern forms of rebellion, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, PL - Grand PrixIII Video Art Festival „Points of View”, ms2, Łódź, PL - II PrizeInternational Film Festival ZOOM, Jelenia Gora, PL - Best Amateur FilmXVII Comedy Flm Festival in Lubomierz - Honourable Mention

2012

The „Pressure Cinema” Film Festival, Leszno, PL - Honourable MentionKolorOFFon Film Festival in Bydgoszcz, PL – Grand PrixMirrors Film Festival, Ostrołęka, PL - Honourable MentionThe Independent Jan Machulski Cinema Prize, category: Best Independent Documentary of 2011.Independent Film Festival CK OFF, Przemyśl, PL - Grand Prix and Audience PrizeXXI DokumentART Film Festival, Szczecin / Neubrandenburg, PL/DE - Westpomeranian shorts - Grand PrixVI OFFELIADA Film Festival in Gniezno – I Prize

International Independent Film Festival „Publicystyka”, Kędzierzyn Koźle, PL - I PrizeX Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent DocumentaryThe Golden Anteaters Film Festival, Lublin, PL - III PrizeSaratov Sufferings Festival, Saratov, Russia - Special PrizeSolanin Film Festival, Nowa Sól, PL - I PrizesOFFa Film Festival, Olsztyn, PL - Grand PrixThe OFF Discovery of the year 2011 - II Prize

2011

MUVISH FILM FEST, category: documentary - Grand PrixVI International Short Film Festival ŻubrOFFka, Białystok - Honourable MentionXX DokumentART Film Festival, Szczecin/Neubrandenburg, PL/DE - Westpomeranian shorts - Grand PrixThe „Pressure Cinema” Film Festival, Leszno, PL - Honourable MentionIV Twisted Films Festival, Lublin, PL - Grand PrixInternational Independent Film Festival „Publicystyka”, Kędzierzyn Koźle, PL- Honourable MentionThe Film Mountain Festival, Zielona Góra, PL - Grand Prix - Golden MountainFAMA International Student Campus, Świnoujście, PL - Honourable MentionIX Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent DocumentaryII Travel and Photography Festival, Poznan, PL– Grand Prix for the best documented travel of 2011.

Selection of festival screenings:

2015paraflows .10 – DIGITAL MIGRATION - Festival für digitale Kunst und Kulturen, ViennaDans Quelle Vie Tu Monde(s)? - Galerie Rue Française by Miss China, ParisMother’s Day with Małgorzata Goliszewska at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Kalisz, PL

2014Cineprive Festival, Ghent, Belgium„Points of view”, Birmingham, UKIvano-Frankivst, Cinema „Lumier”, UkraineShorts & Docs Festival, Reykyavik, IcelandFiSH Festival, Rostock, GermanyScreenings in polish TV stations: TVP KULTURA and TV KINOPOLSKA

2013Audiovisual Festival Vivisesja, Poznań, PolandNaoussa International Film Festival, GreeceThailand International Destination Film Festival, Bangkok, ThailandLadyfest in Philly, Philladelphia, USACinema Perpetuum Mobile Short Film Festival, Mińsk, BelarusNeisse Film Festival, GermanyScreenings in polish TV stations: TVP KULTURA and TV KINOPOLSKA

2012

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, ChinaInternational Documentary Festival Amsterdam, idfa, The NetherlandsT-mobile New Horizons, Wrocław, PLDOCUMENTARIST 2012 , Istanbul, TurkeySheffield DOCfest, Sheffield, UKNew European Underground, The Hague, The NetherlandsThe Kraków Film Festival9 Planete + Doc Film FestivalZEMOS98 audiovisual festival, Sevilia, SpainScreenings in polish TV stations: TVP KULTURA and TV KINOPOLSKA

Scholarships:

2015The National Culture Center’s Scholarship “Young Poland”

2014Award of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Student for outstanding artistic achievementsScholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievementsThe Artistic Scholarship of the City of SzczecinRector’s Scholarship for the best students, Art Academy in Szczecin

2013Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Student for outstanding artistic achievementsScholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievementsThe Artistic Scholarship of the City of SzczecinSocrates-Erasmus scholarship at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaRector’s Scholarship for the best students, Art Academy in Szczecin

2012Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievementsThe Artistic Scholarship of the City of SzczecinRector’s Scholarship for the best students, Art Academy in Szczecin

2011The Artistic Scholarship of the City of Szczecin

Residencies and other:2015Nomadic Art Village Art Residency, Hohe Wand, AustriaResidenct at the quartier21, Museumsquartier , Vienna

2014Month residency in Valenzia as the Hestia Art Travel competition winnerMobile Residency in Riga and Helsinki with the Sound Developement City Sommerexpedition 2014Residency at the Władysław Hasior Museum in Zakopane, Poland.Residency at the House of Keret in WarsawMobile art residency FOCUS_INDONESIA at the Jatiwangi Art Factory in Indonesia.Conducting a documentary workshop in Międzychód, Poland as part of the Laboratorium Rejs project, organised by KodKrowa.„Industrial faces of Cieszyn Silesia”. Film coordinator in an international etnogrpahic project on the Polish-Czech border.

2013Month residency at Upominki Art Space in Rotterdam, finished with the exhibition „I’ll call you when I get there”. Conducting art workshops with children aged 8-12 years „Active Book: Black room of colors” at the Festival 13 Sphere in 13 Muses Gallery in Szczecin. „Life at the border”. Film coordinator in an international etnogrpahic project on the Polish-Czech border.

2012“Krasne - Junction Station of Displacement” Film coordinator in an international etnographic-historical project in Ukraine.

2011Conducting a week-long documentary workshop with children and youth from the Polish village Kołbacz.

filmography

2014

Twins, 20’00’’, documentary, IndonesiaEighteen, 20’00’’, documentary, Poland

2013

Life at the border, 40’00’’, documentary, Poland / Czech RepublicI’ll call you when I get there, 20’00’’, documentary, Poland / The NetherlandsHappiness, 07’00’’, 2013, documentary, Thailand. In collaboration with Artur Rozen.

2012

Junction station of displacement, 60’00’’, documentary, UkraineLonia at the fortune-teller’s, 03’00’’, documentary, PolandWho loves me, 10’00’’, documentary, PolandThis type of birds, 12’00’’, documentary, Poland

2011

Dress me, 16’00’’, documentary, Poland

Dress me16’00’’, 2011, documentary, PL

realisation,cinematography, editing: Małgorzata Goliszewska

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.

„Dress me” was realised at the first semester of studies at the Art Acedemy in Szczecin in the Multimedia Lab, conducted at the time by doctor Łukasz Skąpski and Zorka Wollny.It is now part of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Nastional Audiovisual Institute and can be viewed online at www.nina.gov.plIt can be also viewed on the site www.iplex.pl.It was screened in polish TV stations: TV KINOPOLSKA and TVP KULTURA in the period 2012-2014.

watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=172O56I11j4

Selected Exhibitions and screenings:

Ladyfest in Philly, Philladelphia, USALimits of fashion, Bunkier Sztuki, Photomonth in Kraków, PLMum, I just really need to focus on my art right now, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, PLNew European Underground, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands6th Young Art Triennale, Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, PolandIvano-Frankivst, Cinema „Lumier”, UkraineLadyfest in Philly, Philladelphia, USACinema Perpetuum Mobile Short Film Festival, Mińsk, Belarus

Selected Awards:

“To Love a Human” Film Festival in Auschwitz, PL – III Prize7. IN OUT FESTIVAL: Modern forms of rebellion, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, PL - Grand PrixIII Video Art Festival „Points of View”, ms2, Łódź, PL - II PrizeThe Independent Jan Machulski Cinema Prize, category: Best Independent Documentary of 2011.Independent Film Festival CK OFF, Przemyśl, PL - Grand Prix and Audience PrizeX Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent DocumentaryMUVISH FILM FEST, category: documentary - Grand PrixVI International Short Film Festival ŻubrOFFka, Białystok - Honourable MentionXX DokumentART Film Festival, Szczecin/Neubrandenburg, PL/DE - Westpomeranian shorts - Grand PrixIV Twisted Films Festival, Lublin, PL - Grand PrixThe Film Mountain Festival, Zielona Góra, PL - Grand Prix - Golden Mountain

This type of birds 12’00’’, 2012, documentary, PL

realisation and cinematography: Małgorzata Goliszewska, editing: Aleksandra Gowin

artistic mentors: Paweł Łoziński i Jakub PiątekProducer: Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych ę

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 vegetable, and at the sametime feeds the birds. Invisible, he speaks from inside of the booth and is in a constant dialogue with the world, like anancient greek philosopher. Sometimes, he gives someone someone a pear for free. The clients come to him, to gossipand to confess, and he talks with everyone. For this man, selling is a reason to meet people.He teaches us how to talk and how to take care of each other. Gosia made it visible in a great way - says the mentor,Kuba Piątek (...)”

01.04.2012 - Gazeta Wyborcza Polska.doc. Search close to yourself. Tadeusz Sobolewski

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 Heritage.

watch here: https://vimeo.com/35225274

Selected screenings and prizes:

Dans Quelle Vie Tu Monde(s)? - Galerie Rue Française by Miss China, ParisCineprive Festival, Ghent, BelgiumShorts&Docs Festival Reykyavik, IcelandFiSH Festival, Rostock, GermanyNeisse Film Festival, GermanyMFF ZOOM, Jelenia Gora, Poland - Prize for best amateur filmCinema Perpetuum Mobile Short Film Festival’2013, Minsk, BelarusThe „Pressure Cinema” Film Festival, Leszno, PL - Honourable MentionKolorOFFon Film Festival in Bydgoszcz, PL – Grand PrixMirrors Film Festival, Ostrołęka, PL - Honourable Mention2012 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, ChinaInternational Documentary Festival Amsterdam, idfa, The NetherlandsFilm Festival Cottbus, GermanyInternational Independent Film Festival „Publicystyka”, Kędzierzyn Koźle, PL - I PrizeX Happy End Festival in Rzeszow, PL - Prize for Best Independent DocumentarySaratov Sufferings Festival, Saratov, Russia - Special Prize T-mobile New Horizons, Wrocław, PolandDOCUMENTARIST 2012 , Istanbul, TurkeySolanin Film Festival, Nowa Sól, PL - I PrizesOFFa Film Festival, Olsztyn, PL - Grand PrixSheffield DOCfest, Sheffield, UKsOFFa Film Festival, Olsztyn, Poland - Grand Prix 9. Planete + Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland

Happiness07’00’’, 2013, documentary, Thailand

cinematography and editing: Artur Rozen and Małgorzata GoliszewskaProduction Assistant: Pitchapha Sae-kow

The film was shot in Thailand, in 7 days, as a part of The Amazing Thailand Film Challenge.It was first screened at the Thailand International Destination Film Festival in April 2013.

The idea was to show Thailand through it’s smile and happiness.We want to show the Thai smile in every age, gender, proffesion and social status, from an infant to an old person.

In 5 days we did 80 interviews about happiness with Thai people aged from 0 to 102 in the cities:Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Amphawa, Ratchaburi and Bangkok.

The editing took two days and the film is 7 minutes long. The language of the film is thai but it has english subtitles.

watch here: https://vimeo.com/63913096

I’ll call you when I get there20’00’’, 2013, documentary, Szczecin-Rotterdam

cinematography and editing: Małgorzata Goliszewska

The film is a result of a month-long art residency in Upominki Art Space based in Rotterdam. The curator of the project is Weronika Zielińska.

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 approach. Being desperate and tired of not being able to run away from that situation, Goliszewska decided to give up fighting it, and let it be. Now, after some time spend on working in Rotterdam, she became to realise 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 our minds, often intervene with our consciousness so that we start to believe in them actually being true. We try to protect the ones that we love the most, but how do we know when caring and protecting turns into invigilation or even an obsession? The impossibility to predict what can happen next is the main reason to be afraid and worry about one’s future. However the artist wonders would there be any joy in life without the idea of unpredictability?

watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r80kN98Jzx0

Twins20’00’’, 2014, documentary, Indonesia

director and editor: Małgorzata Goliszewskacinematography: Małgorzata Goliszewska and Sekar Afrillia

The film was made during a mobile art residency FOCUS_AIR_INDONESIA_2014organised by the UPSIDE ART Fundation. The main part of the residency took place in th Jatiwangi Art Factory.

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.

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 meand in every moment I was surrounded with groups of children.This made the whole project different than I imagined.But the kindness, trust and the way everybody invited me to their lives, was a big deal for me.I continue the „Twins” project in other countries.

watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8u01vlxB4

eighteen20’00’’, documentary, Poland

cinematography and editing: Małgorzata Goliszewska

In this film, archive footage from a VHS tape from 2033 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 interviewees.

My eighteenth birthday was always a big trauma for me. I organized a giant party in an abandoned house, with 4 DJsand 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 accompanied by the Prodigy - No good music video - an unfullfilled ideal of that party.

Selection of works realisedat the New Media Departmentat the Art Academy in Szczecin

in the period: 2010-2014

The cursed elementTablecloth, 200 x 200 cm, 2013

The tablecloth is covered with prints of pages of my old diaries, letters, scraps,and other shamefull elements from the past.It should be put on a table, with places for 4 people.Each person sitting at the table is facing part of the images, but they cannot see what others, sitting opposite, are able to read.

Zen7-channel video installation with sound, 2013

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 neverending 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.

mom//dad, 2011photo collage with frames

The work is an interpretation of the fourth commandment: Honour thy father and thy mother.It consists of an old photograph of me with my parents ( I am two years old).The photo is torn in two, in the middle, that’s where I am.My parents haven’t seen each other and spoken since about 10 years.The rest of the installation consists of three framed collages, where I pasted my father’s figure(from his vacation in Egypt) to the holiday photo’s of my mother, so it looks like they were together.

This collage is not meant to trick the viewer, but just to show the need of „pasting”mom and dad together agan.

Exhibitions:

Pomorze Sztuki Festival – Tożsamość / Identity, Willa Lentza, Szczecin / Fabryka Karabinów, Gdańsk, Poland

My name is Gosia and I love all the people in the worldvideoperformance, 5’14’’, 2011

A performance in which I read the title sentence in 52 languages, holding only some fluffy toys and an inflatable gun.

the center of gravityinteractive performance, 2011

The goal of this performance was to make possibly the largest group of people to sit simultaneously oneach other’s lap, forming a circle without a beginning or end. It was supposed to force intimacy beetweenpeople who don’t know each other.

messages (I go)videoperformance, 5’00’’, 2014

Every day thousands 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.

Exhibitions:

16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015: Test Exposure, PLPower and might - Scena Gallery, Koszalin, PL

watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrbM3n2BQA

Animals and men.sound installation, 2012

6 recordings of people speaking to their pets: 4 dogs, 2 cats and 1 rat. The goal of this was to capture an intimate moment, a state when a human stops being seriousand becomes soft, vulnerable and masterful at the same time.

Exhibitions:Pomorze Sztuki Festival – Tożsamość / Identity, Willa Lentza, Szczecin / Fabryka Karabinów, Gdańsk, Poland

listen:http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2012/06/ludzie-i-zwierzeta.html

The flagvideo, 24’00’’, 2012

The work consists of 3 elements:The object - a transparent flag, the same size as a typical polish flagThe anthem - a polish disco-polo song: „Majteczki w kropeczki” („Dotted panties”)by the band Bayer Full, streched 800 times in the program PauliStretch.The video - the flag with the sky in the background, should be played in an endless loop.

Exhibitions:

International Video Art Festival OZON, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PolandPavilion 0 at Palazzo Dona, Venice, ItalyWRO Biennale 2013: Pioneering Values: Separacja Barw. Forward!, WRO Atelier, Poland7 IN OUT Festival, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, PolandSzczecin United Art Festival - Łasztownia, Szczecin, Poland

watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXThMkgsagY

Observationvideo, 01’15’’, 2012

The work is an attempt to define what time is, by observing the difference beetween a still image and a moving image.

6 nine seconds long recordings of still objects, confronted with 6 photographs of the same objects,framed in exactly the same way.

What makes the image alive? Can time be seen?

In my sleepsound installation

2011 - now (in progress)

The project consists of recordings of words, sentences and sound that I make in my sleep. Every night I record them and later I create sound installations or videos, drawings, performancesand site-specific installations, inspired by the words I said.It is an ongoing project, which I continue in Poland and other countries.

Exhibitions:the first and the last person must have a dog, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, PolandFestivalu Pomorze Sztuki - PrzeZtwory, Szczecin and Gdańsk, Poland

listen:http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2011/11/przez-sen-in-my-sleep.htmlhttp://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2012/01/przez-sen-in-my-sleep-grudzien-2011.htmlhttp://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2013/03/in-my-sleep-in-romania-first-month-co.html

...ostatnia i pierwsza osoba musi miec psa... psa?? to jest niesamowite... a ja nie znosze ani tego ani tego...nie zno-sze tego tego teofita i tego... (niezrozumiałe)... tutaj takie dziwne się pojawia..... pod wodą...(szeptem) patrzcie! Oj, mamo, mamo, ja nie wiem co to będzie, mamo... halo? ... zrób niebo, bo nie moge wyjśc za mąż.... że jak jesteś tym strzężopem, z krost tworzysz dużo... i z żywych też mo-żesz....ja nie, właśnie ja nie wiem!.....nie... mam taki kon-takt z Disneyem, że....nie... tu nie ma kontaktu Disneya.....ej, mi tak głupio, że tutaj tak brudno...tu wstań teraz wła-śnie! ..... ale spoko, wiesz on jest chyba dłuższy nawet od tego co zrobiła kroszun...nie otwieraj bo się jeszcze.....Nie wiem skąd, ale po prostu jestem sobie. No i tyle...

Untitled, 2013

Framed found ID photographs.

Systematics, anatomy, embryology and fish diseasesdrawing, video, 05’15’’, 2013

The drawings, which I had to make, while studying Fisheryat the University of Agriculture in Szczecin, Poland.

gosia basia marysia, 201112 photographs

3 women, 3 generations, 3 apartaments.Gosia, age 25, is me, basia - 53 is my mom and marysia - 77 is her mom and my grandma.Each on of us lives alone. We are neighbours.Each one of us has her own world, her own space. We have some things in common: being messy, collecting things, collorful decorations.Watching the photographs, one can have an impression that we are looking at images fromone apartament, not three different ones.This common identity, hard to define, merges our spaces in one.

Exhibitions:Pomorze Sztuki Festival – Tożsamość / Identity, Willa Lentza, Szczecin / Fabryka Karabinów, Gdańsk, Poland

look:http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2011/05/gosia-basia-marysia.html

selfportrait, 20129 photographs

An attempt to identify with my own body.look: http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2011/06/autoportret.html

Solstice, 201210 photographs

My two grandmothers: Kazia and Marysia, haven’t seen each other for many years. One of them is in a retirement home. The other one spends a lo to time at home, alone.I was trying to find common things in their two little worlds and learn something about being old.look: http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2011/06/starosc.html

Truisms, 2012interactive mail art, work in progress

For my open call I got 42 anwsers from people willing to participate in the project,from all around Poland. Each person emailed me their ID photo and then I sent them an envelope with a stamp,adressed by my own hand, with my address.They had to write their secret, put it in the envelope and just throw it in the mailbox.All the envelopes looked the same. 100% anonymity was preserved.I got 31 secrets.The project will be continued in different countries.

see internet version: http://gosiag.deevlu.com/

Perfect imperfection, 2012portraits, in progress

The project portrays the Polish and International impersonators of Elvis Presley:

on the photos, from the left: Ryszard Wiercimak/ Elvis is Back/ Szczecin

Jacek Zaborowski / Elvis Show / CiechocinekKrzysztof Jankowski/ Welcome to my world / Łódź

more: http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2012/06/perfekcyjna-niedoskonaosc.html

Lesson of Love, 20122 channel video projection on a building, partly through a drapery,

7’ and 8’, looped, with music and disco lights.

Our message of love and happiness from Cafe Smile in Szczecin <3

Presented at The 2012 European Museum Night - AVI. Video Attractions, Platerówka, Szczecin, Poland

Ilumination,fotografia, 2012

A portrait series of people met on the street.I asked each of the people are they happy. If they said „yes”, I took a picture.Exhibitions:New European Underground, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, The NetherlandsMedialny Stan Wyjątkowy, National Art Museum in Szczecin, Poland

it’s me, 2012video, 4:13

A sociological experiment. The Google autosuggestion tool tells us a lot about ourselves.The internet browser becomes a confessional, in which we can sneak a peek.

Exhibitions:Pomorze Sztuki Festivaln- PrzeZtwory; Terminal Starówka, Szczecin / Stara Winiarnia,Gdańsk, PolandWinners of the „Points of View” video festival, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, PolandVows of Chastidy - CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław, Poland

Everything (Bachelor diploma)

a book of documentary poetry16 videos, together 60’

The author of all 56 poems in the poetry book „Everything” is the Google search engine, and to be speci-fic - it’s users. That is more than 90% of polish internet users, several million people.They constantle write countless new queries, and everyday 15% of that is completely new phrases.The most popular searched queries are proposed by the search engine as autosuggestions.

Those automatic suggestions by Google change from day to day and even from hour to hour, showingclearly what Polish people search in the web. This is a brutally honest statistic. I saw it as poetry.But, because I didn’t create this poetry myself, just spotted it, I had to call it documentary poetry.The author is the internet community and the search algorythm.

śniło mi się dzieckośniło mi się że umarłamśniło mi się że mam rakaśniło mi się że się całowałamśniło mi się że sikamśniło mi się żeśniło mi sięśniło mi się że urodziłam dzieckośniło mi się że w pięknym ogrodzie spotkałemśniło mi się że byłam w ciąży

czemu boli głowaczemu bąki śmierdzączemu bolą jajnikiczemu biszkopt opadaczemu błaszczykowski nie lubi lewandowskiegoczemu bóg mnie nie słuchaczemu by nieczemu boli mnie podbrzuszeczemu bvbczemu boli brzuch

documentary score60-second music piece, score, 2014

Documentary score is a music piece for 17 instruments, 60 seconds long.Each instrument illustrates one of 17 statistics about the world and mankind.During one second, three people are born in the world, two die, two marriages and 3 murders take place.Every six seconds a man thinks about sex and one more species becomes endangered.

These and other data are shown in the score.Music is made from simple statistic data. It attempts to follow the rythm of our human world.

I love you found footage video, 1:30, 2014

The video is a mix of video fragment from You Tube, where people present the effects of training their dogs how to say „I love you”.

Dog accompany humans since the beginning of mankind. They are our servants, friends, companions. But they never were and never will be human beings. The last barrier, impossible to cross, that seperates us from animals, is language.

autographs of unknown peoplephoto album, 20 autographs with descriptions, 2014

The album consists of autographs of people, who are not famous but for some reason they caught my attention and made me fall in love with them for a short while.

Examples of descriptions:

This man asked me to dance with him in Cafe Smile in Szczecin. I danced two songs with him, but I wasn’t very good at it. He was shorter than me, about 50 years old and had a big mustache. He told that I’m not a good dan-cer. He said he works in Hamburg and is a VIP in the disco-polo scene.

This man was a taxi driver from Warsaw, an impatient, unhappy and unkind one. I wanted to cheer him up in the end and I thanked him that he drove us so beautifully. He only replied without enthusiasm: I didn’t discover Rome or anything.

Other works,realised outside of school,

or at the University of Art and Designin Cluj - Napoca, Romania.

Out of focusfotografia średnioformatowa, 2012

projekt zrealizowany podczas podróży

“This summer I found myself in Transnistria – a country I didn’t even know existed. I had my camera, a Lubitel 166B, with me and I was trying to catch the feeling of this strange, strange place. The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is a country that does not actually exist. It’s a thin strip of land located beetwen Moldova and Ukraine. It claims to be an independent Republic, but hardly anybody has even heard about it. They have their own currency, their national anthem, their presi-dent…. The people I met there have told me amazing stories which I don’t really remember now. All I have left are thesephotos. The portraits I took are totally out of focus. So is the situation, blurry and unclear.

The photos were published in Mint Magazine (UK).

Peaceembroidery, 2012

Good luck, 2012performance

I exchanged 1 Polish Złoty into 100 grosz - coins, which are considered to bring good luck, if found.

I threw them all around the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, hoping to bring good luck for the next years.

„32/5. 32 poems inspired by 5 sounds. A sound-graphic-poetry audiobook”

Hardcover book, 66 pages + CD with 5 sounds.

In collaboration with graphic artist Agata Królak and 9 amateur poets from all over Poland.3 stages:

1. I got 5 sound recordings from students of th New Media Department at the Art Academy in Szczecin.

2. I made an open call for amateur poets and got 9 applications.I sent the 5 sounds to the nine poets and asked them to inspire themselves with each sound and write a poem dedicated to each sound. I didn’t know the poets personally. Some of them wrote for the first time.

3.Scans of handwritten poems have been pyt together in a book.The poems, read aloud by the authors, have been mixed with the sounds that inspired them andput together on a CD.The book has been illustrated by Agata Królak.

13 books have been printed.

Ghosts, 2013laboratory developed found cinema film stills

Exhibitions:The Abandoned Communist Cinema ,Arsenale, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFantomele, Piwnica Kany, Szczecin, Poland

look: http://goliszewska.blogspot.com/2013/03/ghosts.html

fortune telling performance, 2013performance, video 10:00, cinema film reels

It was an individual one - to - one performance.Each participant had their fortunes told based on the interpretation of the film stills symbols that they randomly picked from the room full of film.

Exhibitions:The Abandoned Communist Cinema ,Arsenale, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOZUjBmkgNk

Palinka, 2013video 05’00’’, Romania

The phenomenon, visible on the video is a side effect of the illegal process of making palinka ( a very strong romanian moonshine). The process was filmed in a little booze factory in a small romanian village - Paladca.A beautifull, ephemeric phenomenon happens, in micro scale, even in such a dark place.

Festivals:Naoussa Video Film Festival 2013, Greece

more works and actual activities :

http://goliszewska.blogspot.com

Małgorzata Goliszewska 2015