The finissage of the exhibition Environment. A Future Retrospective by Zorka Wollny was scheduled on March 29, 2020. While the world is trying to overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the show has remained hibernated within the walls of the TRAFO building until the institution reopens. Many of us, trying to keep the risk of infection away from our loved ones, have given up family gatherings during the upcoming holiday season.
In this unique time, alongside the traditional wishes we would like to extend to you, let us share the exhibition manual prepared by the artist in the DIY spirit.
We hope you have a beautiful and healthy Easter!
Feel the exhibition without leaving home:
Overtone Hive
with Jasmine Guffond
Listen to the work cleaning dust and crumbs with your fingers.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/overtone-hive
Birds
with Jasmine Guffond
In the dim light, stare intensely at the ceiling,
try not to blink.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/thebirds-13minexcerpt
Lullabies To Wake Up
with Christine Schörkhuber
Listen when you are asleep,
“Lullabies to wake up” work best when you are listening to them subconsciously all night.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/lullabies-to-wake-up
Quiet Rush
Get into the closet under the sink and make yourself comfortable,
smell your favorite spice or oil.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/quiet-rush-concert-in-the-gold-mine-banska-stiavnica-2019
Psychodelic Choir – Savanna
Listen while inhaling chamomile.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/savannah-short
Polyphonic Manifesto / Environment
with Polin Choir
Listen together with your plants, animals and other household members.
Do not be afraid.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/environment-from-polyphonic-manifesto
Polyphonic Manifesto / It’s enough!
with Polin Choir
Stand in an open window holding a speaker.
https://soundcloud.com/zorka-wollny/mamy-dosyc-its-enough
Voicers
Watch the film
https://www.steirischerherbst.at/de/videos/1414/zorka-wollny
and organize your own political karaoke with your family,
you can use materials from the artist’s website or favorite speeches of Polish politicians…
Butterfly Effect
You can create this piece on your own, gently pouring rice, pasta and groats through your fingers, in complete silence.
Seismometer
For the pissed off. Break thick glass (throuh a newspaper) and tread on it for minimum 10 minutes.
Rolling Stones
Drop beads or pebbles collected during a walk from the balcony at 10-second intervals. Make sure there is no one downstairs.
The last three works are quotes from Composition for Factory, which you can watch here:
Overhearing Point
Put the glass against your neighbor’s wall 😉
Drumm Loom
with N.U. Unruh (Einsturzenden Neubauten)
This work can be perfectly illustrated by a concert played on kitchen pots with neighbors, standing on your balconies.
Zorka Wollny "Środowisko. Retrospektywa na przyszłość" / "Environment. A Future Retrospective"
Relacja z wernisażu wystawy Zorki Wollny "Środowisko. Retrospektywa na przyszłość" 15 lutego 2020 r. Kuratorka: Joanna WarszaO wystawie: https://trafo.art/zorka-wollnysrodowisko-retrospektywa-na-przyszlosc/Wideo: Adam Barwiński…………………..The opening of the exhibition "Environment. A Future Retrospective" by Zorka Wollny on February 15, 2020.Curator: Joanna WarszaMore details: https://trafo.art/en/zorka-wollnysrodowisko-retrospektywa-na-przyszlosc/Video: Adam Barwiński
Opublikowany przez TRAFO Wtorek, 25 lutego 2020
Sound Tags
To be performed and listened to with children.
Find objects that can produce sounds similar to the letters of the alphabet in your house. Then play your names and other things, e.g. poems for kids 😉
Photos: Andrzej Golc, Marta Miszuk