{"id":11588,"date":"2024-05-19T14:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgsw.pl\/strona-archiwalna\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2024-06-05T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:52:59","slug":"hetty-ann-laycock-at-the-rhythm-of-the-wave-currently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bgsw.pl\/strona-archiwalna\/en\/hetty-ann-laycock-at-the-rhythm-of-the-wave-currently\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylwia Gorak \/ Witch Rises to Power by Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hetty Ann Laycock
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Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
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Sylwia Gorak
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Discipline \/ performance, drawing
Period of stay \/ May – June 2024<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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During my artist residency, I intend to research the acoustics of the Witch Tower in order to create a sound sculpture and vocal performance \u201cWitch Rises to Power by Singing\u201d (the title is a quote from an old practical magic textbook). As a professional singer, I have repeatedly experienced the beneficial effects of singing on the mental and physical wellbeing. In difficult and dramatic circumstances, singing becomes a therapeutic process allowing one to build a personal sense of power in life. Intense vocal work has developed in me some echolocation capabilities that allow me to navigate rooms without using the sense of sight. Blindfolded, I have been exploring the acoustics of galleries, old castles and churches for many years working internally with acoustics and the echolocation sense. During a performance, I find the most acoustic spots in a room or something like \u2018power spots\u2019. I mark them on the floor with white chalk and, seeing absolutely nothing, return to them several times guided only by the sounds and inner sensations.<\/p>

Architecture is an auditory phenomenon in itself, enhancing the qualities of the human voice, singing and dialogue. It invisibly \u2018organises\u2019 our social life. Acoustics, reverberation effects, echoes, the natural amplification of sound or its disappearance are prominent properties of any architecture being a part of it.<\/p>

When I think of the thousands of imprisoned and persecuted European women facing accusations of witchcraft, I identify psychologically with them at dramatic moments in their lives. Women in Poland, and especially in the Podkarpacie region where I come from, are still treated unjustly if they do not want to conform to the prevailing patriarchal social systems. For creative, unmarried and childless women, life in this part of Poland is quite difficult, as they are considered a suspicious antisocial element. In my early youth, while attending vocal workshops led by Professor Olga Szwajgier, I learnt to liberate my voice, to build with it inner power and self-esteem as a human being. I think that an imprisoned 'witch’ could practice effective self-therapy with her voice. The residency will culminate in a vocal \u201cconcert\u201d based on the phenomenon of Witch Tower acoustics and echolocation, and a series of charcoal drawings on paper depicting my personal para-magical practices. \u201cDrawing down the Moon\u201d will be a reflection on the phases of the moon reflected in the sea, in the context of a seascape. \/Sylwia Gorak\/.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna\u0144, with a degree in Prof. Jerzy Ka\u0142ucki’s painting studio and Prof. Jaros\u0142aw Koz\u0142owski’s performance studio. Holder of scholarships, including Prohealvetia in Switzerland, CECArtsLink in New York and Landeshauptstadt Kulturamt in D\u00fcsseldorf. Winner of the 5th Young Artists\u2019 Biennale \u201cFish Eye\u201d. Performer, vocalist. Exhibitions and concerts (including at Carnegie Hall New York). Creator of the World\u2019s Largest Sundial (urban-art) in D\u00fcsseldorf. She is currently active in acoustic performance (she has a four-octave voice scale)\u00a0and conceptual performance and is active in the international art circuit. She received a grant from the Susch Museum of the Gra\u017cyna Kulczyk Foundation. She co-created the international Common Ground project at the CCA in Toru\u0144, as well as in Reykjavik and Vilnius. A pupil of Prof. Olga Szwajgier, a world-renowned opera singer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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