ART Habens
Gosia Mielech
to over and over again. Every time we perform that piece I leave the stage feeling overwhelmed by the enthusiastic feedback and honest satisfaction. There is nothing more awarding than touching other people’ s emotions by taking them on a journey.
I think it ' s important to mention that you are the co-founder of co-founder of DanceLab, an independent dance company and co-creator of choreography and other artistic projects for the group: dance is intrinsically a collaborative practice and I do believe that interdisciplinary collaboration today is an ever growing force in Art and that that most exciting things happen when creative minds from different fields of practice meet and collaborate on a project... could you tell us something about these effective synergies? By the way, the artist Peter Tabor once said that " collaboration is working together with another to create something as a synthesis of two practices, that alone one could not ": what ' s your point about this? Can you explain how your work demonstrates communication between several artists?
As long as you keep your integrity and you are open to other influences you can only benefit from any creative collaboration. I take great inspiration from that. Sometimes, leaving your comfort zone, your studio, where without any distractions you can develop your project in an intimate atmosphere, can be very beneficial. I discovered that, while working on the Anonymous performance, I was switching rehearsal spaces. The creative process was literally happening all the time, in various venues. One of them was an art gallery, which exhibits beautiful photographs by a renowned polish photographer, Szymon Brodziak, who specializes in black and white pictures, capturing women’ s beauty. The gallery looks like a fish tank, it is a rectangular, mostly glazed space, which is situated on a busy street in Poznan. The main inspiration for Anonymous is street art. It was a perfect opportunity to create, despite the fact that I was surrounded by people and street life, but most of all being constantly exposed to everyone. It was a unique experience. Usually beginning a creative process is a very personal
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