Zofia Kuligowska and Wojciech Bernatowicz (Warsaw, Poland): An empty message cannot be sent 
- duration: 7 min
- watch: 27th March 2019 at 12 pm UTC
An Empty message cannot be sent – It is a spoken word/song accompanied by Wojciech Bernatowicz on bass. It is a kind of a podcast for alien civilisation, a compilation of states of mind, a communicate sent to the space. Now we would like to send it to the virtual space online. The title comes from the communicate I received on my phone. It means that o send a message we always have to have something to say, we can’t just send the blank message. The words are as follows:
Good morning,
You
come
closer to me.
Today is Wednesday
27th march
its 1.00 pm
Surja came up at four-forty,
Swarog and Shamasz half an hour later,
Saule shed light as usual at six.
The information
that is a message
for those who are not here
comes from the galaxy milky way,
the third planet from the star.
Continent Europe,
Warsaw
Online Performance Festival.
Elsewhere,
a different art than performance art
ceased to exist.
Performers do performance for performers.
This is the reflection of the reflection of the reflection of the
reflection.
There performers are divided into
marvelous artists,
forced artists and
shit artists.
Some wanders,
others strive.
You are alike,
You are so alike,
Like mannequins.
We are moving
in the field
of what we call
the Unknown.
Life is life la la la la la.
Between one thousand nine hundred and eighty eight
and one thousand nine hundred and ninety four
Poland floated in the cosmic soup.
It’s the time
between my birth
and my schooling.
Thanks to that
I managed to stay here.
Because when the traveler leaves the house
he loses the ability to control his environment.
At birth,we wrap up children in burkas,
Im sorry in burs,
And family is like an occasion in Wizzair –
–
love two people
and you will get the love of third one for free.
And Here
we just race
in who suffers the most,
I hurry so much
that I do not want
to give more effort,
I do not have time to think –
I constantly read the thoughts of other people.
Quote from the farmer’s calendar:
If a tree wants to reach its age,
it must follow the principle of slowness,
the older it gets the faster it grows.
The forests here are wonderful but spooky.
The glowing sun seemed like a fiery streak,
one arc glowing in space,
and the moon
turned into a ribbon
of waving light.
I was there,
I was standing in a queue to the bar
that was reaching the loo
and the queue to the loo was reaching the bar.
I was behind the girl from under the sign of information point,
her smile meant that
it is good to cry.
She told me
that an art that I like
will come back in style.
It was like a thermic dinner –
the first thing
that could not be improved
by my imagination.
It’s time to adjust,
match the color of the spaceship
to the color of the sky.
There is nothing worse
than returning the same way.
Thank you for the pictures
because I look really nice today.
BIO: Zofia Kuligowska, born in Poznań. Graduate of two faculties in University of Fine Arts in Poznań. Since 2009 I am a graphic designer, since 2012 I do performance art. Student of Janusz Baldyga, took part in numerous performance art workshops (with Monica Gunther and Ruedi Shille, Alistair McLennan, Adina Bar-On, Marilyn Arsem, Rody Hunter, Nigel Rolfe). Took part in Festivals in Poland: Contexts 2013 and 2017, Interactions 2014 and 2018, Malta Theater Festival, Poznań Gallery Weekend, and in Labirynth Gallery in Lublin. Abroad: Week of art in Lviv 2013, Double Blind in Savvy Conteporary in Berlin 2014, Sofia Underground 2017, Fab City in Amsterdam 2016. Took part in international projects: Aesthetics and Bias (poland/israel) Paradox (Poznań 2015 and London 2017), 3 months residency in Amsterdam with ELIA in 2016. Granted with Poznań City Council stipend for young artists in 2016. Took part in many griup exhibitions in Poland and abroad, last two in 2017 and 2018 in Arsenał Galery in Poznań. Im interested in langage and it’s usage in performance art. Levity in perceiving the reality as well as sense of humor is for me very important in performance art. Im a mother of 15 moths od Stan, living in Warsaw. ARTIST’S WEBSITE