BASK 2016 – JOIN IN!


OPENING OF THE VILLA:

01.07.2016, 17:00


EXHIBITION:

BudCud on vacation - Do It (All) Yourself
01.07.2016, 17.00-23.00
02-03.07.2016, 12.00-23.00

Someone has to restrain from playing, so that others could play. Agata and Mateusz from the BudCud studio are going on vacation, but the Open Laboratory of Basque Culture BASK at Parkowa offers a lot of work to be done by the visitors. The designers turned the old reading room formerly owned by the Medical University into their studio. It is where some tasks will be waiting for those who are willing to undertake them. Design challenges, interlaced with video tutorials on architectural drawing and designing, will not only help professionals improve their skills but will also enable them to act like real constructors. The tutorials constitute ready-made instructions and are complemented with mood boards, that is collections of inspirations prepared by the architects to prevent the participants from getting stuck with the most obvious solution.

All the works may be taken home. A better idea is, however, to leave them in order to create a common installation at BudCud studio which will prove you were not wasting time.

Start with the workshop, then create!

The studio may be visited from Friday to Sunday in the opening hours of BASK (no previous registration is required).The supervisor: Aleksandra Zielonka from BudCud.

Especially for BASK a duet of architects from BudCud prepared a live exhibition being created instantly on the spot by the visitors. Consequently, the creators are playing with two main concepts around which human life is organised - work and leisure. With the help of video tutorials, tasks and instructions, the architects prove that what is usually considered a tedious chore, can also be fun.

BIO:
BudCud is a contemporary practice operating within the fields of architecture and urbanism run by Agata Woźniczka and Mateusz Adamczyk. They work in Poland and abroad, proving that architecture can be the result of the context and dreams; the substantial and the ephemeral. They create taking into account the needs of humans, animals and plants because – as they put it - architecture is part of the great organism. They have collaborated with many institutions, prepared a countless amount of exhibitions, projects and workshops and won a large number of Polish and international awards.

www.budcud.org


WORKSHOPS:

MASSMIX presents: TRYBITRON
02.07.2016, 12.00-17.00 + surprise trip
03.07.2016, 12.00-17.00 + surprise trip

The idea of sticker art - multiplied, light, ubiquitous and shapeless - as Massimix artists describe it, may be compared to graffiti with which the workshop organisers are well acquainted.

This time, however, the focus is put on sticker art, to the production of which the audience will be encouraged.
The garden surrounding the villa at Parkowa will turn into a workshop. Here the participants wearing special uniforms will work on a "production line" under the guidance of the Massmix team. As a result, unique sticker will be created.

May a mass production be fun? The answer is yes, as long as the resulting work is the effect of a collective act of improvisation. You are thus kindly invited to participate in a special workshop for designers, graphic designers, street artists and art enthusiasts.

BIO:
Massmix constitutes an artistic collective. Since 2006 they have been carrying out projects which may be located on the borderline of painting and street art. They are also engaged in preparing exhibitions and workshops aimed at creating collective pieces of work. Their model of work resembles a process of doing a jigsaw puzzle, except that it resigns from any imposed pattern or template.
The collective organised 118 actions, documented on www.massmix.bzzz.net. On a daily basis they run V9 gallery in Warsaw.

berETA by Goes to M
01.07.2016, 17.00-21.00
02.07.2016, 12.00-16.00

If you looked for a region in Poland bearing any similarity to the Basque Country, it would undoubtedly be Silesia. The similarity lies not in the architecture or landscape, but in a sense of independence and the inhabitants' cultural identity so distinctive from the rest of the country.

Goes to M, the creators of unique artistic textiles, will teach the participants modern methods of creating appliqués based on traditional Basque berets but inspired by the region of Silesia. Together with the artists, a mood board will be created which will serve as the starting point for individual projects. Appliqué technique constitutes a beautiful alternative to printing. It makes use of decorative elements made ​​of different materials which are applied to the fabric. Anyone can prepare his traditional Basque beret in a new way.

BIO:
The studio was founded in 2012 in Katowice at the initiative of Magda Pogorzelska, its main author and designer. GOES TO M is a fusion of a comfortable cut with rich ornamentation. All products are created using ​​ appliqué technique which is an alternative to printing. The technique involves decorative elements of different fabrics being applied to another surface. As a result, totally unique, artistic textile is created.

Because fabrics and sartorial accessories from around the world are used in the production process, each product is unique. The combination of luxurious woven and knitted fabrics with recycled materials adheres to the idea of slow fashion and conscious consumption. Short collections occurr twice a year and are light and humorous, so distinctive from the mainstream canons.

www.goestom.com

Madre Mia! P. Vasco ¡ViVelo!

01.07.2016, 17.00-18.00

Discover the Basque Country in 60 minutes with all your senses!
 

Thanks to the gymkhana, the participants will have an opportunity to get to know the Basque culture in one hour. Various tests and games will become a medium through which everyone would be able to explore Basque language, cuisine and some most beautiful places of the Basque Country.

In these competitions everyone will join a team which - in order to fulfill the mission and collect all the pieces of the cultural puzzle - will have to pass a variety of tests in which all five senses will be engaged.
Close your eyes. Let your senses be your guide.

BIO:
Madre Mia – is a school of Spanish culture based in Wrocław. Its mission is to popularise the Iberian tradition through learning and fun.

www.madre-mia.pl

Basque-style embroidering by ERS
02-03.07.2016, 12.00-17.00

A journey through the history of the Basque handicraft; its wonderful geometric patterns and plant ornaments which, combined with the ideas of the participants, will create an inspiring game of associations  - the resulting projects will combine past and future with the present time.
A traditional product of the Basques are beautifully embroidered shawls and napkins whose patterns are versatile enough to fit modern narration.

During the workshop the participants will learn to embroider traditional Basque patterns, mixing them with their own projects and referring also to the rich tradition of Polish handicraft. The participants will embroider tapestries / elements on T-shirts, wipers and shawls (each person will be able to create a pattern on his clothes).A lot of patience, willingness and ideas are required!

BIO:
Ewa Rebeka Służyńska - born in 1990. She is a student of art mediation at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. In 2013 she debuted at her solo exhibition of drawings "Everyday Struggle" at Studio BWA in Wrocław. She has collaborated with the Open Lab of Basque Culture and Open Laboratory of the Street – CITYPROJECT. She has participated in many exhibitions, i.e. at Wozownia gallery in Toruń, Entropia Gallery in Wrocław and V9 gallery in Warsaw. In 2015, her second individual exhibition - "Upadek swobodny" ["Free Fall"] was held in POCO gallery in Wrocław. Together with Magdalena Kreis and Natalia Romaszkan she co-created the project "On the Other Side of the Table", realized within the framework of art residency in San Sebastian (Artist-in-Residence Programme A-i-R Wro).

G-A-M-E by Magdalena Kreis and Natalia Romaszkan / 3D czyli Dizajn Dla Dzieci (3D – Design For Kids)

02.07.2016, 16.00-18.00

This is not just a word, but also letters! During the workshops, the participants will get to know the typical Basque font and check how it presents itself when copied from the template on the wall. Finally, everybody will have an opportunity to see if his head or hand fit any letter.

The workshop is addressed to children between 6 and 12 years old. Admission is free, previous registration is required and launches on June 27.E-mails shall be sent to the address 3d@bwa.wroc.pl and contain the name and age of a child.

BAL FOLK POZNAN

01.07.2016, 20.00-23.00

A workshop of traditional Basque dances conducted by Polish dancers. BalFolk Poznan is a group of enthusiasts presenting European traditions of dance and music to the broader public. During the workshop at BASK, the dancers will take us for a Basque dance party.

http://balfolk.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/balfolkpoznan/

SITWA
02.07.2016, 12.00-16.00

Sitwa will lead a workshop, which will refer to the flag as a signal. The participants will combine techniques of elements reproduction on a screen and manual sewing of different materials. Each participant will create his own unique flag, pennant or a different kind of a sign.

BIO:
Sitwa is an independent, DIY screen printing collective, consisting of: Dominika Łabądź, Anna Pastuszek, Dominika Kulczyńska, Agata Wiejak, MichałWeksler, Maciej Śliwa, Joanna Synowiec.


GARDEN ACTION:

M-ETXEA
01.07.2016, 17.00-21.00
02-07-03.07.2016, 12.00-21.00

Under the supervision of the Basque team of architects from M-Etxea, two groups of participants will build their lodges. Taming the wild part of the garden, they will create a space functioning both as a shelter and an entertainment spot. The constructions will be built using only recycled materials, threads, and most of all - imagination.

BIO:
M-Etxea is an association established in 2007 by the teachers, students and graduates of the School of Architecture in San Sebastian. It explores the urban and architectural space in the context of its everyday use. Analysing space functionality, a group of architects is looking for the right direction of urban planning and modern architecture's development, taking into account also the role of the architect and urban planner. In their studio, M-Etxea focuses on the space in which they live and work; they are both its designers and users. Together with the residents of San Sebastian, they are looking for the best solutions and designs of public space.

www.m-etxea.com

MUSIC SCENE:

LAS MARINES DJ
01-03.07.2016

Maria and Ines are DJs from Zarautz (the Basque Country) where they play music on hot beaches of San Sebastian.

www.facebook.com/lasmarines.diskajartzaileak

ZAMBON
02.07.2016, 01.00-03.00

A DJ, producer and founder of the record label "The Very Polish Cut Outs" which specializes in the disco and slowmo edits of well-known Polish pop hits from the 70s and 80s.

www.facebook.com/theverypolishcutouts
www.soundcloud.com/zambon

MAL
02.07.2016, 23.00-01.00

A good disco, house and techno by a DJ who has played with (among others) Swayzak, Minilogue, Marcel Dettmannman or Jaimie XX.

www.mixcloud.com/mal69


HERRI BAZKARIA – BASQUE LUNCH:

A treat for gourmets: throughout the whole BASK 2016 we will share the Basque recipes on our FB profile. Everybody is invited to prepare dishes and share them with other participants at the Parkowa 1-3!

REGISTRATION FOR WORKSHOPS

Those interested in workshops (and garden action as well) are encouraged to submit their applications via e-mail: bask@wroclaw2016.pl . Registration is open until June 30, 2016. (Separate registration procedure applies to "G-A-M-E" for which the submissions must be sent to the address: 3d@bwa.wroc.pl. In the content, the name and age of a child have to be given. The registration is launched on June 27, 2016).

In the title of the message the name of a selected workshop shall be written (e.g. MASSMIX presents: TRYBITRON). In the content, the name and phone number of the participant shall be provided. The number of places for each workshop is limited, thus while accepting the participants, the order of applications is taken into account. The information on the registration results will be provided by e-mail or telephone. Participation in the workshop is free of charge.


ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME A-i-R WRO / EVENTS AND ARTISTS


AINARA LEGARDON IN CONCERT
02.07.2016, 21:00

Ainara LeGardon – an artist from Bilbao where she has been recognised as one of the most important representants of alternative music scene. She is known for her improvised performances during which her voice, body and carefully selected objects become her instruments. LeGardon is also a member of one of the oldest European improvising orchestras – Orquestra FOCO. Moreover, at the turn of June and July 2015 she stayed in Wrocław as a participant of the Artist-in-Residency Programme A-i-R Wro during which she was studying the city's auditor-sphere. This year at the Open Lab of Basque Culture BASK, she will play a solo concert, during which she will demonstrate raw aesthetics, deep emotionality and sincerity – the features inevitably associated with her artistic attainment.

www.ainaralegardon.com

EXHIBITION OF BASQUE AND POLISH ARTISTS, CELEBRATING THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESIDENCY EXCHANGE BETWEEN ECOC WROCŁAW 2016 AND ECOC DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN 2016
Openning: 01.07.2016, 17:00
01-03.07.2016

Goiatz Labandibar – a writer and journalist. In 2014, during her residency in Wroclaw, she wrote a series of twelve short-stores based on twelve photographs "I ja tam byłam... pstryk!" [ "And I was there too... click!"]. Women captured on photographs by six female photographers became a pretext to combine the themes of gender and imagination. During the BASK 2016, Wrocław residents will have a unique opportunity to read Goiatz's texts. Among the stories collected, there is one about the girl whose boyfriend sings at the concert at Słodowa Island or a very interesting text in which the author refers to the Polish grammatical gender.

"Radiography of a Face"

Lips. A noun. Fleshy edges around the mouthpart, occurring in humans and other vertebrates.

A woman who started the lineage of women with such lips had no opportunity to meet the third generation. Yet, if she had had such an opportunity and someone had asked her: "Why does this child put lipstick on?", she would have answered: "Because nowadays we have color photography."
Translation: Aleksandra Solińska

Aleksandra Wałaszek – a graduate  from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She is the author of variety of objects, installations, photographs and happenings. She is primarily interested in identity, language and memory issues. Her works and actions are focused around the ​​communication between people -  the space where the familiar meets the foreign. Consequently, the artists refers to her works as "geo-biographical" phenomena. In 2015, during her residency in the Basque Country, she decided to realise the project "Panorama" - an audio guide around San Sebastian. The "geo-biographical" sound map by Wałaszek consists of memories, photos and reflections of her interlocutors. Some of them will be presented at BASK 2016.

Anna Nosowicz – a graduate from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (specialization: painting), she also studied at the Academy of Arts and Design in Bratislava. In her artistic activity, she applies a variety of techniques - combining traditional painting with reusable materials; she also runs educational projects. During her two residencies in the Basque Country, she was conducting workshops for children and teenagers which resulted in creation of lanterns - light installations made up of descriptions, notes, photographs and recycled colourful foil. They have been displayed twice already - in 2015 in San Sebastian, and at the beginning of 2016 in Elgoibar. During BASK 2016, the visitors will have an opportunity to see Nosowicz's photos documenting the process of lanterns creation, workshops and both exhibitions.

Gerard Lebik – an experimental musician, composer and an author of sound installations and interventions in public space. His music is based on musical notation or improvisation with the use of electro and acoustic instruments. He explores the sound phenomenon through various tools and techniques: saxophones, air compressors, VHS recorders, electronics, software. The audio-video works presented at BASK resulted from his residency in San Sebastian in 2015. During his stay, the artist explored the marks the Cantabrian Sea left on the audio-sphere around the sculptures by Eduardo Chillida, trying to record "a sound frozen in time". This unusually challenging experiment, although unsuccessful, was turned into another artistic action whose aim is to bring the audience closer to the essence of releasing sound from metal while it is being deformed and deconstructed.

You created time

space

gravity

light

and the wind which is invisible

Eduardo Chillida

www.gerardlebik.com

Diego Vivanco – a visual and conceptual artist from Bilbao, currently staying in Wrocław as a guest of an art residency. He has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships for his photographic and video works. Some of them were also exhibited, i.e. at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or at the Art Gallery Eigen in Leipzig. In 2013, he founded an art collective "Situation Room". Vivanco's project is an analysis of the situation of young artists who need to undertake non-artistic jobs in order to realise their own artistic visions. Residency programme is an answer to such problems, since its aim is to offer artists the opportunity to focus exclusively on their creative work without thinking about money. Vivanco. however, decided to reverse this situation. He applied for a job in places which have nothing in common with art. Moreover, he did not claim any money in return, questioning thus the division between artistic activity and "regular" work. The artist has been employed, among others, at the upholsterer's and at the baker's in Wrocław Nadodrze. During BASK 2016, the audience will have an opportunity to see the effects of his work - both creative and not.

www.diegovivanco.net

Aitor Gametxo – an audio-visual artist, director and author of numerous short films. He studied audiovisual communication in Bilbao and Barcelona. In 2014, he won the X Films Project award at the International Documentary Film Festival Punto de Vista and was thus able to make ​​a full-length documentary film "Inna mapa Abauntz" ["El otro mapa de Abauntz"].During this year's residency, Gametxo worked on an essay film "Cicha Symfonia" ["Silent Symphony"], dedicated to the people with hearing impairment living in Wroclaw. Those 20 minutes of silence help us understand the reality in which the deaf live; the city and the way they deal with everyday challenges. The work may be treated as a homage to the urban symphony of the 20s, where the frenetic rhythms of the city was illustrated by machines and trains. The lack of sound in the film enables the spectators not only to focus on motion which constitutes the essence of cinema, but also helps them return to the era of silent films. Being deaf may in a way unite people. In this process of acquiring a collective identity, language plays a special role. Polish sign language, like its equivalents worldwide, makes use not only of signs but also, of space, facial expressions and gestures to transmit the message. And the visual aspect of the sign language was an additional inspiration for Gametxo. His "Silent Symphony" will be presented at BASK 2016.

MEETING AND WORKSHOP SUMMARISING THREE YEARS OF RESIDENCY EXCHANGE BETWEEN ECOC WROCŁAW 2016 AND ECOC DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN 2016
01-03.07.2016

Within the framework of Artist-in-Residency Programme A-i-R Wro, not only exhibitions but also meetings will be held at BASK 2016. Their aim is to summarise three years of residency exchange between the two European Capitals of Culture 2016 – San Sebastian and Wroclaw. The meetings will be attended by artists and representatives of institutions and organizations participating in the exchange. Their purpose is to gather experiences, summarise them and examine the impact the residences had on individual artists. Did the established friendships and professional relationships have become a pretext for further joint creative actions? What does a network connecting such different artists and cultures look like? Is it still inspiring? These questions and issues will be discussed during workshops and presented in the form of a zin - the publication whose content and visual side will be created by the participants.

The workshop will be conducted by Ewa Głowacka - a graduate from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, the University of Wrocław and the Universidad del Pais Vasco in Bilbao. Głowacka deals with screen printing and graphic design. On a daily basis she is associated with the printing collective SITWA (former SITO CRK) and collective MODUŁ.

More details about the A-i-R Wro can be found here.

PROGRAM

BASK 2016 GAME/ JOKOA

Open Lab of Basque Culture – edition IV

Place: Parkowa 1-3, Wrocław

Date: 1st-3rd July 2016


OPENNING OF THE VILLA:

01-03.07.2016, 17:00


EXHIBITION:

EXHIBITION OF BASQUE AND POLISH ARTISTS, CELEBRATING THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESIDENCY EXCHANGE BETWEEN ECOC WROCŁAW 2016 AND ECOC DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN 2016 / WITHIN THE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME A-i-R WRO
Openning: 01.07.2016, 17:00
01-03.07.2016

BudCud on vacation - Do It (All) Yourself:
01.07.2016, 17.00-23.00
02-03.07.2016, 12.00-23.00


WORKSHOPS:

MEETING AND WORKSHOP SUMMARIZING THREE YEARS OF RESIDENTIAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN ECOC WROCŁAW 2016 AND ECoC DONOSTIA / SAN SEBASTIAN 2016 / WITHIN THE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME A-i-R WRO
01-03.07.2016

MASSMIX presents: TRYBITRON:
02.07.2016, 12.00-17.00 + surprise trip
03.07.2016, 12.00-17.00 + surprise trip

berETA by Goes to M
01.07.2016, 17.00-21.00
02.07.2016, 12.00-16.00

Madre Mia! P. Vasco ¡ViVelo!
01.07.2016, 17.00-18.00

Basque-style embroidering by ERS
02-03.07.2016, 12.00-17.00

G-A-M-E by Magdalena Kreis and Natalia Romaszkan / 3D czyli Dizajn Dla Dzieci (3D – Design For Kids)
02.07.2016, 16.00-18.00

BAL FOLK POZNAN
01.07.2016, 20.00-23.00

SITWA
02.07.2016, 12.00-16.00


GARDEN ACTION:

M-ETXEA
01.07.2016, 17.00-21.00
02-07-03.07.2016, 12.00-21.00


MUSIC SCENE:

LAS MARINES DJ
01-03.07.2016

AINARA LEGARDON IN CONCERT / WITHIN THE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME A-i-R WRO
02.07.2016, 21:00

MAL
02.07.2016, 23.00-01.00

ZAMBON
02.07.2016, 01.00-03.00

Contact:

Coordinator: katarzyna.zielinska@wroclaw2016.pl

Media: stanislaw.abramik@wroclaw2016.pl

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bask2016

Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracowniaBASK