Oskar Chmioła / Works and actions
Who am I?
Kim jestem?
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Cycle: Reality · Performance 1 of 9
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.
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- Teatr KANA
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- Oskar Chmioła — performance
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Who Am I?
The first performance in Oskar Chmioła’s Reality cycle, KANA Theatre, 27.07.2017
Reality is a project in which I raised the classical questions of philosophy through visual means. I used conceptual art, new media and performance to do so.
The first question is: Who am I? This question can be understood both generally (who is a human being?) and personally (who is Oskar Chmioła?). Balancing on the boundaries of myself, I will try to inspire further dialogue.
First I told the story of “how I came to be here”, saying who I am without speaking. I presented the anthropology of an encounter with myself, seeking signs through which I came to know myself. Without the phrases I use every day, I created a sacred space and asked the audience to be willing to spend some time within it.
Halfway through (at 20.45), an open discussion using the language of visual art was to begin, with the working title Anthropotropy. This was to be an STP encounter (*Space Time Performance, author’s note). Here everyone was to be able to express themselves: through words, sounds, movements, images, atmospheres, smells or tastes, or whatever anyone, with whomever, might be capable of presenting and might wish, if they chose, to share with the participants.
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*According to the STP idea (https://www.facebook.com/spacetimeperformance/), every participant is treated as an impartial spectator for as long as they fulfil the role of spectator. If, however, a participant enacts another intention, they become a performer. During STP encounters, art touches us through its immediacy, and dialectics becomes as multidimensional as the day. One may therefore often be surprised by how close and enriching art can be when it remains in dialogue with our subjectivity. The multiplicity of languages in which one can speak and still be understood is such that it is always worth opening the stream of consciousness in an act of collective weaving. STP can also be understood as the inverse of theatre: no single script, intersubjectivism; the spectator is an actor playing the spectator’s role, so an actor is someone who plays a role, whereas here everyone has their own suitcase, etc.
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