Aleksandra Komsta

Reading performance in the installation space during 'FRUIT DE MAR' MA Artistic Research exhibition in NEST, The Hague.

Reading performance in the installation space during 'FRUIT DE MAR' MA Artistic Research exhibition in NEST, The Hague.

ZBYT DALEKO BY ZOBACZYĆ WŁASNE PALCE, ZBYT BLISKO BY PAMIĘTAĆ JAK POWIEDZIEĆ DOBRANOC (TOO FAR AWAY TO SEE YOUR OWN FINGERS; TOO CLOSE TO REMEMBR TO SAY GOODNIGHT creates an intimate listening situation in the bedroom, in which the audience experiences two readings, two songs: I read you something to sleep neighbours from the first floor, they plant glass in their blue windows they have a cat, and the cat is a famous singer same as you are in your bedroom

song of a splinter / letters to months is a piece consisting of an archive of heat scans, projection light, and spoken-word performance. It is an archive of both personal and found objects, scanned onto a thermal paper with a self-developed method of heat printing. Hundreds of papers with scans suspended in space, creates a setting for a durational, reading performances. Human presence, voice, reading out loud, or reading to oneself constantly activates elements of the work, within which the difference between movement and stillness is based on proximity. song of a splinter / letters to months is a practice-sharing moment, as much as a part of the ongoing research on language as an environment and its impact on the epigenetics of a self. It is an iterative attempt to articulate and host the experience of how language and words live their life in a human body, how can they form a body of their own, how they live outside themselves, and how they interact with the emotional brain.

song of a splinter / letters to months is a piece consisting of an archive of heat scans, projection light, and spoken-word performance. It is an archive of both personal and found objects, scanned onto a thermal paper with a self-developed method of heat printing. Hundreds of papers with scans suspended in space, creates a setting for a durational, reading performances. Human presence, voice, reading out loud, or reading to oneself constantly activates elements of the work, within which the difference between movement and stillness is based on proximity. song of a splinter / letters to months is a practice-sharing moment, as much as a part of the ongoing research on language as an environment and its impact on the epigenetics of a self. It is an iterative attempt to articulate and host the experience of how language and words live their life in a human body, how can they form a body of their own, how they live outside themselves, and how they interact with the emotional brain.

lecture performance and dialogue on language-based artistic research in collaboration with Cecilie Fang 2023 Material Reading is a lecture performance, creating a space for practicing artistic research and using performance as a method of doing so within the actions and thoughts manifested. It is a dialogue existing within the borders of sharing research and sharing to / as research. Among auto-theory, exchanged thoughts and literature, our points of departure are processes of asemic writing and heat scanning, which open up a conversation about language existing outside of words in material and sonic transformation. While one person does asemic writing, another person reads parts from the written dialogue. As in a conversation, the other responds, moving between asemic and spoken responses. Material Reading researches dialogue by being in dialogue with one another ourselves. A collective correspondence as our approaches to materiality and iteration of objects enter a dialogue, when to write is to touch and to speak is to iterate. It’s a form of revisited dialogue, memory of a conversation that becomes something else in the moment of being taken out of its previous familiar environment. We look upon the materiality of language and how it can manifest itself in other forms than words; body becomes paper, when to read is to be left with a mark ; a body writes in memory of previous readings, when other people’s words end up touching one’s own ; text becomes a sound, when the act of writing and speaking is to move. The performance becomes a collision of such processes of doing research without one fixed result, but allowing research to stay non-linear and on-going. Situating knowledge as being relational and giving up upon the idea of claiming knowledge and instead revisiting it and giving it an auto-theoretical context through correspondence. The space moves into an installation in such process, as the dialogue is given a material visual form as it unfolds through the performance. In the end, each space of a performance is an on-growing archive on its own. The after-moment becomes a moment of being in dialogue with the audience itself and extending our reading into a moment of allowing a multitude of readings to co-exist.

30 minute reading performance, hosted by Flipchart at Instrument Inventors (iii), The Hague Zeynep Yılmaz and Aleksandra Komsta are presenting a setlist of texts, read and combined with a sound piece of patchwork recordings. Unpacking layer by layer, in no exact order, the why and the how, in becoming a reflective surface for the audience. Dipping their pens from the implicit plane to the explicit plane, they aspire to embody the ecosystem of their external references and internal footnotes. In this reading-listening scenario, they perform a strain of thoughts, mimicking perhaps the digestion system.

30 minute reading performance, hosted by Flipchart at Instrument Inventors (iii), The Hague Zeynep Yılmaz and Aleksandra Komsta are presenting a setlist of texts, read and combined with a sound piece of patchwork recordings. Unpacking layer by layer, in no exact order, the why and the how, in becoming a reflective surface for the audience. Dipping their pens from the implicit plane to the explicit plane, they aspire to embody the ecosystem of their external references and internal footnotes. In this reading-listening scenario, they perform a strain of thoughts, mimicking perhaps the digestion system.

From Opening Distance exhibition. Video works and artists' letters. Ballinascarthy, Co. Cork. 7 Artists showing both moving image and written work.

From Opening Distance exhibition. Video works and artists' letters. Ballinascarthy, Co. Cork. 7 Artists showing both moving image and written work.

Sculptures from solo exhibition in Galeria EGO, Poznań, 2021. Summary of a BA research project on material kinships and personal investigation into language of environment and self-made ecologies.

Painting from solo exhibition in Galeria EGO, Poznań, 2021. Summary of a BA research project on material kinships and personal investigation into language of environment and self-made ecologies.

Solo exhibition in Galeria EGO, Poznań, 2021. Summary of a BA research project on material kinships and personal investigation into language of environment and self-made ecologies.