Aleksandra Chciuk
Aleksandra Chciuk, Polish multimedia artist, improviser, and composer, creates immersive audiovisual experiments exploring sound and image.
Aleksandra Chciuk is a Polish multimedia artist, improviser, and composer. She graduated from the Łódź Film School (Cinematography Department). In her installations and video works, she focuses on exploring the phenomenon of the relationship between sound and image in the organicity of phenomena, and her performative audiovisual experiments have an immersive and intimate dimension. She also creates interactive site-specific sound objects. Many of her works are based on acousmatic perception. For the artist, this is a way to enhance mindfulness not only towards the sonic qualities of compositions but primarily towards the surroundings and the presence of others. In improvisation, she most often uses a prepared piano, small instruments and objects in various configurations, as well as her voice. Recently, she founded the collective Pełnia. She co-creates the group Węże Kobro and an artistic duo with Kuba Krzewiński. She runs the Audiosphere Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Her works have been presented in places such as: MMCA in Seoul, Center for the Arts in Boston, Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu, the Venice Biennale of Art, MSN in Warsaw, and Atlas Sztuki in Łódź.
A women’s collective juxtaposing seemingly distant artistic practices such as painting and extended performance techniques used in new music. The collective was formed at the Audiosfera Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and seeks new sound art forms of expression.
Aleksandra Chciuk – leader
Joanna Dreczka
Natalia Kędzierska
Alicja Pangowska
In the creative process for the collective, the methodology of work is extremely important. From ideation, exploration and combining selected means to tuning the effect to a specific space. The basic tools are field recording materials, video, drawing, object, dockcam performance, recently voice and also a subtle turn to choreography. The starting point in the problems addressed is Schaefferian thought, including the treatment of objects as equal to instruments. On the other hand, Schafer’s thought of the soundscape as a global composition, abstracting specific threads from it and looking for mutual influences and dependencies between them. The artists build the structures of their performances as broad, meticulously planned narratives, with specific ideas at their core (e.g., the problem of acoustic ecology in times of energy crisis – Pleasure of Items) entwined with tensions and phenomena generated during the process. Hence, the intuition and jitter resulting from the encounters are also important elements of their multimedia expositions.
The final frame of the multimedia work “Sound Healing Rituals” (2023) was shot at the Nymphaeum, the deep well of Sokołowsko. This year, we used this place as a starting...