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Szczecin / Poland

Oskar Chmioła

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The artist in the foreground, his face reflected in a mirror, during Water – Desire in Grodno.
Water – Desire · 2019 · Centre for International Cooperation, Grodno© Karolina Gołębiewska · The artist’s own materials.

Interdisciplinary artist

Oskar Chmioła is a visual artist, performer and author based in Szczecin. His work brings the body, image, sound and code into dialogue with literature and social practice. He creates site-specific works, films, installations and interactive applications. He develops Psychoperformance and also works as a curator and cultural facilitator.

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Nine performances addressing philosophical questions: eight in Szczecin and one in Stargard. Explore the complete accounts and films of each performance.

Meaning · Realność · 2017
Meaning · Opera na Zamku · Szczecin · 08.09.2017
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    Truth

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    A social experiment in the form of a game at Książnica Pomorska. Participants could try searching for truth or remain observers.

    Książnica Pomorska, Szczecin

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    Love

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    Making an image together with music, involving autistic people and their families. The audience added AAC pictograms to the image, forming a metaphor of love as connection.

    Niedziałkowskiego 21, Szczecin

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    Beauty

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    A multimedia dialogue between Oskar Chmioła’s images and Valerii Burianenko’s sound. An installation and projection on the museum vault meet clarinet and alto saxophone.

    2017 — cycle context; no exact date in the assigned passage · Muzeum Narodowe, Wały Chrobrego 3, Szczecin

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    Death

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    A collective performance about fear, fascination and the unknowability of death. Four individual actions meet in a shared space around an old piano.

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    Identity

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    A performance on identity during an evening curated by Oskar Chmioła. Bożena Galant, Kamil Malecki and Tomasz Kubik also presented separate works.

    Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Szczecin

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    Justice

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    Three parts — Odliczanie, Sprawiedliwość and Etykanie — connect references to December 1970 with questions of justice. The audience was invited to participate, with AAC pictograms also used.

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    Meaning

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    A routine act of hanging laundry opens a question about meaning and freedom. An installation of furniture and everyday objects, assembled before viewers, becomes a metaphor for inner life.

    Opera na Zamku, Szczecin

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    What is good?

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    A performative tour of Stargard’s Brick Gothic heritage: 16 short actions formed one event in the cycle, from the John Paul II monument to the water tower.

    Stargard

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    Who am I?

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    The cycle’s first performance explores self-knowledge through gesture and image. The account also includes plans for an open Antropotropia encounter based on STP.

    Teatr KANA