Joanna Dreczka
Originally from the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, she creates and works in Lodz. The artist is affiliated with the Lodz Academy of Fine Arts and is also a doctor at the Department of Psychiatry. In her work, she mainly focuses on the issue of man’s relationship with other people, with nature, with himself. As a medium, she uses visual forms such as painting, printmaking, video art. Since 2022, she has also been exploring the world of sound art with the Fullness collective.
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...