This will be the fifth edition of the event. The Kinomural in Wrocław will take place on 23 September. It is a special evening of the year, when projects featuring the work of female and male artists from around the world will be projected on selected empty walls of buildings in the city.The whiteMAD magazine is a media patron of the event
For one evening, the walls of buildings that are someone’s everyday home or workplace will once again form an open-air gallery with a nighttime video exhibition. You can visit it, walk around it, see more works, confront the art, discuss and review, sharing your impressions with other participants. The programme will feature: moving murals, ephemeral projections in various forms – from video art, sound performance and experimental cinema, to audiovisual installations using 3D technology
Kinomural is one of the few events in Europe that presents works by leading representatives of new media art. Audiovisual artists very often work with the music, fashion, advertising and gaming industries, creating music videos, visuals, special effects, etc. Valued and invited to collaborate all over the world, they have a strong influence on contemporary art. The event programme will allow audiences to experience the work of top female artists from all over the world “live”, outside the space of the Internet
Divergent states of consciousness [PROGRAMME]
How can male and female creators influence the audience’s consciousness? Will Kinomural transport audiences to the abstract dimension of human minds? Will it stir the inner self? Participants in the event will go on a two-and-a-half-hour journey through rarely visited places called altered states of consciousness. It will be immersive, hypnotic, disturbing and sometimes poetic
Kinomural is a hybrid of the stories of a thousand and one nights in the open space of a giant gallery, which becomes the city’s courtyards and streets closed for the time. The artists we have invited to this year’s exhibition reflect different states of consciousness in their works. Diverse, because each time they take a different route. There is an initiatory journey of the hero/heroine, there is sleep, leaving the body and other states of crossing the borders of the mind. There are sensations in which we experience different temperatures, different gravities. The play teaches us to lose control and trust the processes that go their way. All you have to do is sit back, buckle up and let yourself be guided,” say the programme’s curators
The walls – CHOREOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENCES, BLACK TRIP, KALEJDOSKOP OF KNOWLEDGE – will feature works by artists selected by a curatorial team consisting of: Adriana Prodeus, Bartek Bartos, Piotr Bartos. Each is a poetic odyssey through the meanderings of the human psyche. 3D artist Steven Baltay ‘s films have been described as ‘hypnotic’, ‘magical’. They circulate between the meditative and the grotesque, creating a visual spectacle full of hypnotic trance-like strangeness. Through surreal landscapes and cheeky humour, the artist pushes the boundaries of our imagination. The programme includes his two animations: “Human Pachinko”, inspired by a Japanese automaton game, and “RIP”, in which the author juxtaposes the “classical” image of woman with the forces of desire, a destructive feeling that transforms everything into objects of possession
RubenFro (Ruben Frosali) is a visual effects artist and director, specialising in volumetric shots, point clouds and large particles. He has collaborated with artists on music videos where he was responsible for VFX. As Head of Cinematics at JADU AR, he has worked with Hollywood director Michael Bay on cinematic trailers, among others. The Cinematics programme includes his black and white animations
Jon Noorlander is creative director at Method Studios in New York. He has created animations, commercials and films for MTV, Nascar, Nike, Range Rover, Syfy, VW, eBay and FOX. The Kinomural programme will feature his animation Climb, a dark, endless continuum of the struggle of living substance in the abyss of unforgiving laws
Sholim is a visual artist and animator, he creates video loops of a few seconds in which human faces and landscapes change in strange ways. His work has been published on social media and the fantastical world of his work, which he describes as ‘digital surrealism’, has received much acclaim. He has had numerous collaborations with the music industry – Spotify, HYDE (music video for ‘OUT’), BEKON and fashion – Marcelo Burlon, Gucci, Converse. The artist will create a special collage from his previous work at Kinomural
Jamie Wolfe – animation director and visual artist living and working in Los Angeles. Best known for her animated shorts and music videos shown at festivals and galleries around the world, she has also collaborated
with musicians such as King Krule, Local Natives and The Rolling Stones, and her work has been commissioned by Adult Swim, Gucci and Giphy, among others
Ryan D. Anderson – comedian, animator and filmmaker. His animations are inspired by random texts that come to mind, and he bases his style on illustrations and old comics from the 60s and 90s. Three of his works will be featured, of which ‘Plane Ride’ will be projected simultaneously on all the walls at the end of the event
Cody Samson – known as Shmody, is an audiovisual artist and designer specialising in animation and sound design for events and installations. His portfolio also includes numerous projects in the music industry: he has worked with the band Alt-J, the American singer Halsey and the band Alabama Shakes. Kinomural will feature his two animations: the first was created in collaboration with video artist Clayton McCracken, which is an impressionistic visualisation of different dimensions of consciousness; the second explores the complex relationship between human and artificial consciousness, in the context of natural and artificial environments
DREAM BUCKETS is a wall curated by Peter Burr, a New York-based artist whose work has been shown by MoMA The Museum of Modern Art PS1 in New York or the Barbican Centre in London. This wall will feature a selection of his visions by other American artists exploring the interface between individual dreaming and shared life
As part of DOBRANOCKA, the organisers will invite the youngest viewers on a journey through the waking dreams created by the human imagination. Here, works will be shown by Shi-Rou Huang, among others, an animation director and illustrator specialising in classic 2D hand animation. In her films, she delves into the female consciousness. Underneath the soft and cloudy colours of her work is a poetic and emotional story that defines this young and talented artist. The animated film Girl in the Water, which will be screened at Kinomural, has already been presented at more than 90 film festivals
It is a well-known fact that after bedtime, the diary with news from the country and the world begins, in this case it will be news from the distant past of the universe. These will be presented by Guli Silberstein, a London-based filmmaker and artist who works with found footage, fault aesthetics and artificial intelligence. The screening of Cycles of Creation will be a special event and the first full-length animation at Kinomural
The WALL OF DREAMS will belong to 17 filmmakers selected in this year’s OPEN CALL, whose theme was the phenomenon of the dream. Three of them will be awarded a financial prize by the Jury
But that’s not all. The day before, on 22 September, Adriana Prodeus, together with curator Becca Keating and artists Guli Silberstein and Zbiok Tchaikovsky, will talk about the place of art in public space. The debate “When Zlatan visits you, you become the guest” will take place at the venue “Under Pressure”, admission is free
KINOMURAL
23 September 2023, 19:30-22:00, free entry
Locations: Wrocław, Przedmieście Odrzańskie – ul Jagiellończyka 40, ul Trzebnicka 19-21, ul Św. Wincentego 39a-41a, ul Niemcewicza 30b, u. Niemcewicza 27 and ul Ołbińska 16.
For more information: www.kinomural.com.
DETAILED WALL PROGRAMME:
- CHOREOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENCES- wall at 40 Jagiellończyk Street
A spectacle of imagination, where surreal forms dance to the rhythm of hidden, diverse emotions. Links between fantasy elements of separate minds create a single piece that can be a map of human perception. Can you see this?
Artists: Çağıl Harmandar, Amanda Bonaiuto, Derrick Schultz, Steven Baltay, Ruffmercy, Piotr Tokarz, Rachel Gutgarts, Jon Noorlander, aAron Munson
- BLACK TRIP- the wall at 19-21 Trzebnicka Street
The world has no colours, colours themselves do not exist, your brain tricks you, colours you. This wall sucks you in with its dark gravity. Contrast sharpens and deepens the senses. This will help you on your journey through a melting, dilapidated space-time to the mysterious regions of consciousness
Artists: RubenFro, Tim Maxwell, Dimitri Thouzery & Le Boucan, Michał Bednarski, Mikołaj Otwinowski, Robert Seidel, Aleksandra Woźniak, Olga Wrona, Studio of Animated Film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
- KALEJDOSKOP DOZNAŃ – wall at 39a-41a Św. Wincentego Street
Abstract forms and a wealth of colour lead through the labyrinth of their creators’ inner world. These seemingly chaotic, shape-shifting visions heighten sensitivity to stimuli. An exploration in which every twist and turn reveals new feelings
and sensations. Logic does not apply here. Where does the passage through the mesmerising scenery on the wall lead? To each somewhere else
Artists: Sholim, Blatant Space, Mrinal, Jamie Wolfe, Maciej Bryś, Ryan D. Anderson, Piotr Soltys, Cody Samson, Sefa “Minelauvart” Kocakalay, Andrey Kasay, Anna Brzyk, Steven Baltay, Massimo Vendola
- DREAM BUCKETS- wall at 30b Niemcewicza St
As we navigate through the ever-increasing technological advancements of the 21st century, we are inundated with a constant stream of diverse entertainment options within reach of our fingertips. But what happens when we start to look beyond these mass-produced experiences? Dream Buckets is a non-obvious alternative to the ready-made and pre-packaged super-sensory: seven American artists exploring the interface between individual dreaming and shared life. This show is a hallucination of alternate realities that aims to induce a state of altered consciousness, transporting viewers into a new, non-standard reality
Artists: Amy Lockhart, Barry Doupé, Kevin Eskew, Nick Flaherty, Jeremy Couillard, Andy Cahill, Sabrina Ratté
- DOBRANOCKA – wall at 27 Niemcewicza St
This year, Dobranocka will become a window to different realities, where our youngest viewers will discover new horizons of the mind. It is like opening a magic book, where each animation and sound will lead to mysterious places where shapes and colours tell tales. Dobranocka will immerse you in stories that stimulate the imagination and allow you to experience worlds that are different from the reality around you
Artists: Julia Goźdź-Roszkowska, Jules Guérin, Aleksandra Bazan, Cole Kush, Alicja Wojtaszek, Shi-Rou Huang, Oskar French, Maja Olczak, Maria Nolepa, Julia Mośko, Ekaterina Shramko, Oksana Popiela
A special event has also been planned for this wall – the first screening of a full-length animation in the festival’s history. Gula Silberstein’s Cycles of Creation is a fictional-documentary journey that takes an alternative look at the creation of our planet, us and our consciousness by cybernetic entities
- GREAT Dreams – wall at 16 Ołbińska Street
This year’s OPEN CALL section wall is a daydream dream dreamt by 17 artists from all over the world. A mosaic of various techniques, forms and narrations, all forming one crazy phantasmagoria. It will be surreal, funny, sometimes scary. You will dream, wake up and enter another maya, and so on for two and a half hours. These are bound to be “big dreams”, not just on the scale of our walls. Total departure guaranteed
Artists: Margo Nowicka, Tsz-wing HO, TS/CN, Lightness, Alex Halka, Robert Seidel, Alexander Dupuis, Michal Szota, Ofir K. & Flower Child Slumber Party, xyckshyt, Marcelina Żurek, Lifan Hu, Ivan Janković, radzikows, Zuzanna Fluder, Edgar Bąk, Milena Pikul
source: Kinomural(kinomural.com)
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