[spectre] KPL

[jonni jemp]

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

*KARKOWSKI
PIOTROWICZ
LISEK *


*11.01.2009, 8 pm *

Center of Reanimation of Culture
Jagiellończyka 10
Wrocław, Poland

*
10.01.2009 , 7 pm *

BWA Zielona Gora Gallery
Ul. Niepodleglosci 19
Zielona Gora, Poland


Zbigniew Karkowski
Composer and performer of contemporary music. Was born in Cracow - 
Poland, but emigrated as a teenager, and afterwards lived in, among 
others Gothenburg - Sweden, Amsterdam - Netherlands, Berlin - 
Germany, Paris - France, Los Angeles - USA and Tokyo - Japan. He 
studied music and composition for many different teachers and 
composers in Poland, Sweden, France and Netherlands.
 From today’s perspective he considers that the only teacher who 
taught him something real was Iannis Xenakis. Karkowski has presented 
his work in more than 30 countries on nearly all continents. He is 
convinced that it is a responsibility of an artist in present time to 
travel and move and work around the World in order to learn and 
understand different cultures and traditions and discover truth about 
us and our planet.
He also strongly believes that geographical, political and social 
exile is a necessary condition for true creation, and true creation 
is the only act that really matters. Since 1994 he is based in Tokyo 
- Japan where he collaborates closely with Japanese underground noise 
and experimental artists.
He is not interested in a traditional definition of what is music; in 
his opinion all theory and systems of music as cultural concepts have 
to be destroyed. So in his latest work his main concern is on 
realizing drama with electronic sound and acoustic walls with scores 
based on architectures of ruins.
http://www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski

Robert Piotrowicz
Guitar player and electro acoustic musician
He started play music in age of 12 years old, his first instrument 
was drums. Then few years latter he found guitar as a tool to have 
band, form this time he was trying to find his place in music. From 
early 90’ he was leader of his own band called STUCKONCEILING, 
there he found his way of guitar playing and leading the bands. 
Around 96-98 he released couple of albums with his early fascination 
which turned around hard core, noise avantgarde metal. In this rock 
loud period he is founding improvisation as way to create music and 
thinking about this. Together with this Piotrowicz was researching 
electronics as topic for sound chalenge.
The breaking times for Piotrowicz music approach was 1999 when 
together with his band he finishing noise rock period and he turn 
himself into free improvisation. Together with Anna Zaradny - she 
joined STUCKOCELING around 98’ - they both together strongly 
focused on experimental and improvised music.
In 2000 Piotrowicz played few concerts with well know improv figures 
as John Butcher and Tony Buck. In next year together with Anna 
Zaradny they found label and festival MUSICA GENERA. From 2002 all 
their art activities are strongly connected with record label, 
festival and events of improvised and experimental music in Poland. 
 From this time he regularly play concerts all over Europe, including 
festivals and other events. Activities of Musica Genera became one of 
most important phenomenon for experimental music in Poland.


Robert B. LISEK is an artist, composer and mathematician who works at 
the truly cutting-edge vanguard of arts and media, a founder of 
FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LAB; he is involved in the number of projects 
focused on radical art strategies, hacktivism and artificial 
intelligence. Drawing upon conceptual and software art, telepresence, 
robotics, meta-media, criticism of new media art, and introducing 
numerous additional influences from mathematic, his work 
intentionally defies categorization. A pioneer of art based on AI. 
His visionary combination of AI and telepresence explores the 
possibility of building distributed intelligent entities. In the last 
project Das GESPENST explores the relationship between bio-molecular 
technology, code and issues arising from network technologies. With 
reference to the emerging practice of ‘biotech-art’, the artist 
aims to represent the self-replicating behavior of new original 
bacteria in order to draw out its wider bio-political significance in 
an imagined scenario of bioterrorism. He is also a scientist 
connected with the Department of Logic of Wroclaw University 
specializing in the theory of partially-ordered sets. He exhibits, 
lectures, and conducts workshops worldwide. His projects include 
among others:  FREE ARTS CONCEPTS EXCHANGE -international exchange, 
GENGINE-National Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw; FLOAT- Lower Manhattan 
Culture Council, New York; WWAI- Siggraph05, Los Angeles; Falsecodes 
– Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; State of Emergency Embassy – 
Entropia, Wrocław, FLEXTEXT- CiberArt Bilbao, FLEXTEXT – Byzantine 
Museum, Athens, RunMe – Moscow, FLEXTEXT – ACA Media Festival, 
Tokyo; STACK – ISEA 02, Nagoya; SSSPEAR -17th Meridian, WRO Center 
for Media Arts, Wrocław.