KARKOWSKI PROJECT: "THE TRUTH AT ALL COSTS?”
Concept by Karina Mertin, co-curated by Mark Fell
Doors: 18:00
Festival Garden (riverside) with low-tech food & drinks
Concert start: 20:00
After Show from midnight till dawn/open end
Studio A (5th Floor) open from Wednesday — Saturday night / Sunday morning
Multi layer sound installation by MARK FELL (UK) with archive material of Zbigniew Karkowski
Karkowski Project: The truth at all costs?
Zbigniew Karkowski’s work as a musician, sound artist and performer transgressed the boundaries and barriers of contemporary music, noise and electronics - opening spaces that many have since occupied. But how do we celebrate or confront the legacy of such an overtly elusive character? How do we construct a history around someone hostile to the reductive effects of such processes?
Karkowski used the phrase “the truth at all costs” in a text from 1992 referring to the transformative power of sound: its ability to radically reconfigure who we are. But, to return the mission statement back to its author in the form of a question: what, if any, is the truth of this person? And, more importantly, what were the costs? In examining his contributions to our musical and sonic vocabularies, where and how do we locate Karkowski? Is there some kind of scorched silhouette where he once stood, burned into our collective memory - or perhaps several contradictory iterations of the same charred outline? Are we left with a shattered mirror when we really hoped for a skillfully executed renaissance style portrait?
In resisting the urge to draw conclusions and consolidate our opinions, The Truth At All Costs? is not an overview of or reflection upon Karkowski’s life or artistic legacy, but by contrast, it aims to underline rather than resolve such issues. Therefore let’s not synchronise the multiple echoes of his presence into a singular shape or harmonic resolution, but instead let the unresolvable noise refold itself into new questions.
Text: Mark Fell
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