OFF Festival Katowice 2012: Bombs and Walls
Continuing the tradition of previous years, the 2012 OFF Festival will leave a permanent mark in the city: Julian Jakub Ziółkowski is designing a mural titled Kim. Meanwhile, BNNT is getting set to attack us with sound at the time and place we least expect it. Get ready to be bombed!
The mural titled Kim will be painted at ul. Plebiscytowa, on the wall of what was once the Capitol movie theater. The artist, Julian Jakub Ziółkowski (1980), is a graduate of Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts and collaborates with the Gallery Foksal Foundation. His work has been featured in galleries around the world, from Paris and London to New York. His eclectic and psychedelic style evokes associations with Surrealism and Expressionism while drawing comparisons to Cubism as well great masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pablo Picasso. Some of his pieces might terrify you, others may amuse you, but no one is left unmoved.
BNNT was founded in Poznań in 2008 as a solo audio-performance project by Konrad Smoleński, only to soon transform into a duo with drummer Daniel Szwed. Smoleński plays the Bomb, a four-string stereo baritone guitar shaped like an aerial bomb. He uses the Bomb to perform what is known as Sound Bombing, which BNNT describe as “surprise sonic interventions in public spaces.” The police and other public authorities that often cut the Sound Bombing short likely have a different name for it.
The OFF Festival will mark the premiere of BNNT’s debut album, _ _, which features guest appearances by Jakub Ziółek (Ed Wood), Wojciech Bąkowski (Niwea), Macio Moretti (Mitch&Mitch), and Tomasz Duda (Baaba).
