Oskar Chmioła / Works and actions

GRA-NICA (BORDER)

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Portfolio description

installation which consisted of installing very thin strings in the jambs. There was a possibility toplay on the installation what was already suggested by the words connection in the title. Installation was idealistic expression of belief in possibility of transforming energy contained in conflict for something useful. It was an expression of conviction that “differences are more interesting” and borders are creative space between sides.

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Installation and sound

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Gra-nica

Separate source record · oskarchmiola.blogspot.com

Gra-nica what will happen when a hole in a wall, or the potential for one, for example in the form of a sealed-up doorway, is entirely strung with fishing lines, or preferably real strings, and the harp thus created allows people to play it on both sides of the borders? These lines, these strings, are invisible, as though there were nothing in the doorway/hole, and yet this nothing can be played. That is the whole of gra-nica, which turns the meaning of borders inside out by making it possible to play them. Photos from the

PDP archive

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