{"id":271,"date":"2021-11-01T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:49:50","slug":"work-collaborations-musical-images","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/?page_id=271","title":{"rendered":"Work \/ Cooperations \/ Musical images"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By five to nine in the morning, twelve secondary-school students have already turned up at the Zach\u0119ta workshop room.
I am waiting for them with a complete set of instruments. Two paintings by Magda Bielesz hang on the walls \u2014 the beautiful, merry, colourful street vendors from the Sailor Moon series.
Magda will arrive around eleven to listen to musical compositions and spontaneous improvisations inspired by her works. This is the last meeting this school year in the Musical Images series, which has as its protagonists ten selected works from the Zach\u0119ta collection and a group of students from a Warsaw secondary school. Texture, Word , Time, Nature against Nature, Authors about Themselves, Interpretation, Tools and Techniques, Inspiration, Rhythm \u2014 the subjects of the successive meetings became a challenge for me and the other educators running the project. A challenge and aninvitation to search for educational \u2018solutions\u2019 and transcriptions of the complex nature of contemporary art.
What kind of a challenge was it? Unique, unfolding in a space constituted by a confrontation of image and sound. Suggesting simple and pleasant solutions, being governed by an unexpected obviousness of relationships and a lexicon of communication codes we built together.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The September exhibition is a culmination of the year-long project, a reward for the students and parents, but also an invitation to experiment and play with contemporary art in the field of education.
The educational project has its roots in artistic practices and comes as a natural consequence of the artistic path that the band Kwartludium initiated in 2006, recording their debut album for the label Dux. Images by Pola Dwurnik, Two\u017cywo, Karol Radziszewski, Anna Okrasko, and Adam X appeared on that album in the part titled \u2018In-strumental Interpretations of Visual Works\u2019; we used them as contemporary scores. With time, playing to works of visual art became a regular feature of the band\u2019s live repertoire, gaining eventually the name Musical Images. There was a strong desire in us to be close to the audience. Live expression and improvisation was always preceded by a process of building and explaining meanings. Thus wonderful experience of group work, different from the exciting, but tedious struggling through the scores of contemporary composers, resulted in an educational project.
Building meanings, explaining, learning, understanding and natural expression became an artistic act in which the viewer becomes the author and which we can share. I am sure that my students will attend this year\u2019s Warsaw Autumn concerts on their own will and with pleasure. Dagna Sadkowska<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Throughout the school year you participated in the Musical Images project. What was it that you particularly liked about it?<\/strong>
\u2013 We liked the classes themselves, it was something different from sitting behind the desks at school.
\u2013 There was not only music but also art and pictures, so we could learn a lot, get to know new techniques, artists.
\u2013 Sometimes we liked a piece because we liked its particular technique. That was the case with [W\u0142odzimierz Pawlak\u2019s] Poles Forming Their National Flag. I was surprised that it\u2019s possible to create such a powerful effect by simply squeezing out paint from the tube, sweeping it aside with a ruler and painting lines.
\u2013 For me it was incredible that virtually all aspects of a painting \u2014 colour, lines etc.
\u2014 can be applied to music. I used to think they were two completely different things, but now I see they are very similar.
\u2013 I loved the class when we went out to the main lobby and built an installation. It was so unusual \u2014 not just music and drawing, but physical action where we could use found objects.
\u2013 Playing for the Zach\u0119ta staff [musical improvisations on a set theme] was also interesting \u2014 so spontaneous.
\u2013 Or going outdoors and taking pictures.
\u2013 Asking people [passers-by at Park Saski] what \u201binspiration\u2019 is. The replies were highly varied.
\u2013 I liked the last meeting where the artist [Magda Bielesz] was present and we could learn something interesting about her and her life.
\u2013 … and the painting process itself. The prospect of meeting a person from the art world is an interesting one.
\u2013 Another advantage was that Ms. Sadkowska gave us a lot of latitude. We could show initiative, play something that we liked. There was no strict discipline.
\u2013 Such classes give you an opportunity to learn things you wouldn\u2019t get to know about in everyday life, see things you normally don\u2019t see, and play contemporary music which I, for one, don\u2019t listen to\u2019.<\/p>

What were the advantages of attending extramural classes?<\/strong>
\u2013 We learned new things.
\u2013 Our perception of Zach\u0119ta has changed.
\u2013 We got to know many paintings, not only those we played to.
\u2013 It\u2019s cool the paintings were here. Had we been at school, we\u2019d have seen them on slides only and here we could regard the originals\u2019.Imagine you attend just one such class at Zach\u0119ta and then go back to school. Is it a value that the project is cyclical and runs throughout the year?
\u2013 If I had attended just one meeting, I\u2019d only have grown even more wary of contemporary art. A single class would have been for nothing. We\u2019d have remembered something and forgotten it a week later. When it\u2019s a series, some things are repeated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Has participation in this project changed the way you perceive contemporary music?<\/strong>
\u2013 Music is stranger [than art], I have even more qualms about it…
\u2013 I loved it when we listened to a recording of a beatbox played on flute. I was surprised you can play something like this on such a classical instrument. John Cage\u2019s 4 \u030133 \u0301 \u0301 was interesting and also weird. Attending such classes, you can learn something new.
\u2013 I\u2019m still not convinced about this music. It\u2019s very ingenuous and certainly fun to play, but it\u2019s not something you could listen to every day.
\u2013 Okay, once, but if I were listen to it on a daily basis, I\u2019d rather go for classical music.<\/p>

And how have the classes changed your attitude to art?<\/strong>
\u2013 At first, I remember, everyone was sceptical about contemporary art and music. But then our attitude changed.
\u2013 I didn\u2019t know contemporary art before, only from other people\u2019s accounts. I got to like it. When we visit an exhibition, we often don\u2019t reflect at all on what we see because that\u2019s the easier way. And here we discuss how the given piece was painted, how to play to it, we got to know it inside out.
\u2013 We recently had an extramural class at the National Museum and viewed classical paintings: landscapes, portraits etc. My conclusion was that they are generally boring. I was surprised to realise contemporary art fascinates me more. I had my doubts at first.
\u2013 I also had doubts at the beginning of the project. I didn\u2019t know what to think about contemporary art. Now I\u2019ve been warming up to it.
\u2013 I also had my doubts and still prefer old art. Ms. Sadkowska is a nice teacher but contemporary art still doesn\u2019t appeal to me, this hasn\u2019t changed.
\u2013 I think contemporary art is more intellectually stimulating. Of course, there are also works of old art that are very beautiful and tackle subjects that are thoughtprovoking, but in contemporary art this happens much more often. I recently visited Zach\u0119ta on the Night of Museums and what I saw there got me interested. Some works are highly controversial, there are moments of discouragement, but generally I\u2019d say the project has had a very favourable influence on me.
\u2013 From now on, I think, when I see a painting, I\u2019ll be analysing it the way we did during the classes.
\u2013 I\u2019ll also be giving a lot of thought to the author. Previously I never thought about him before.<\/p>

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Musical Images By five to nine in the morning, twelve secondary-school students have already turned up at the Zach\u0119ta workshop room. I am waiting for them with a complete set of instruments. Two paintings by Magda Bielesz hang on the walls \u2014 the beautiful, merry, colourful street vendors from the Sailor Moon series.Magda will arrive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdabielesz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}