I shall endeavour to be a credit to my Country and to the uniform I wear, Accion!Mad 2011, Matadero, Madrit

Before the performance...

Title: Monika Szydłowska, author: Wojciech Tubaja, stylization: Basia Czyżewska, 
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2011

The film blends imagination with reality.  Characters merge with every day people. We are no longer able to separate fact from fiction. Sometimes it happens the other way around. The accidental scene, the certain mood of an evening or the part of a famous film, seen once more, that can surprisingly show our peers in a different way. Repeating the roles allows me to confront my close friends, perhaps it can open unknown parts of their personality, redefine our relationship.

For the latest project I invited Monika and asked her to play the scene of Nadine's suicide - from the series Twin Peaks - before a video camera and an audience. I observe her behaviour and the medium of performance. I am interested in a space that opens up between successive repetitions. The original material is a matrix that I use to reflect her image, distorted by years of living together, studies and cooperation.

I shall endeavour to be a credit to my Country and to the uniform I wear, 8 Bitów, Poznań, 2011

Fight club, performance, Interakcje - Piotrków Trybunalski, 2011

Sometimes I`m nice, Sometimes I`m ice, performance, public space, 2011
Performance took place in public space opposite the police station. I started by doing few rescue motions, then I took off my t-shirt. I had a tatoo on my back saying "The prise of freedom is death". It was the same tatoo as my brother who was in prison has.

Fight club, performance, Interakcje - Piotrków Trybunalski, 2011
I used safety instruction which flight attendants perform. Action consists of many sequences in which I'm changing the scheme that stewardesses normally use. I finish by puffing up the rescue vest.

Time goes by, performance, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, 2011
I'm trying to solve a crossword asking audiance for responses. From the tape recorder I'm listening to dogs barking.

Safety instruction, performance, CSW in Torun, 2010
I was reading safety instruction used in american films to show how to behave in nuclear threat. At the same time I was spreading my legs what audiance could see on television  in front of me.

Just like that, video performance, 2010
I'm hanging my old self-portraits upside down. I'm wearing sweater which is painted on one of the paintings. In the end I stand on my head.

 

                                         
Me & Jack King-Spooner, performance, Galeria Sektor I, Katowice, 2010
Performance was about Polish and Scottish rituals. Rituals weren't performed in the exact orginal way. They were changed in order to communicate new contents and create the dialogue between one ritual and another.

I was tide up for few hours. During performance everyone could take a photo with me for just 1 zl.

                                            Oh boy! video performance, 2010

                                                                             
                                            blue, video performance