Maxi Single

'Maxi Single' is a series of one-off performative events and film screenings planned for 5 consecutive Friday nights at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

The cycle pursues further the investigation into the dialogue between visual arts and music, which was the theme of the Museum's recent exhibition 'Video Killed the Radio Star' at this year's edition of the Heineken Open'er Festival.

A series of five 'maxi single' events held at the Museum's Moderna Cafe every Friday from 31st August until the end of September observes these liaisons through the prism of the cultural heritage of various music genres and medium specificity of visual arts – performance, installation, film and video art.

Programme:

Free Pop
video art and music video screening, 31st August (Friday), 6:30 pm

Selection of works by visual artists participating in the exhibition 'Video Killed the Radio Star', who generate new meanings by challenging the music video cliché. Music video as a film form with a soundtrack appears here not so much as an attempt at visualising music, but rather as a Trojan horse, with which the artists can smuggle their own values, references and personal poetics. Featured artists: Deimantas Narkevičius, Wilhelm Sasnal, Anna Molska, Anna Zaradny.

No Wave
film screenings, 7th September (Friday) 6:30 pm

Four interviews with four key figures of New York's music and art scenes from the 1970s devoted to the liaisons between visual arts and art rock. The interviews were conducted as part of the project Synesthesia (1997-2001), a series of interviews recorded by multimedia artist Tony Oursler, renowned for frequent artistic collaborations with Mike Kelley.

7th September (Friday): Dan Graham, Tony Conrad and Glenn Branca (The Static/ Theoretical Girls/ Glenn Branca Ensemble)

Back to School Youtube Party
performative event and music video screening, 14th September (Friday), 9 pm

Performative, free improv party. With a set of music videos selected and prepared in advance, three artists join forces in a video 'slam', taking turns to play out the youtube stuff and thus generate an idiosyncratic 'video collage'. Contrary to an ordinary 'slam', the youtube party is not based on competition but on intense feedback and immediate contact between the performers and the audience. Some of the freestyling stars of the party will be artists Maurycy Gomulicki and Anna Zaradny.

Rerun/Remix
film and video art screening, 21st September (Friday), 6:30 pm

Selection of short film forms by Canadian filmmaker and musician, Michael Snow, author of the iconic piece of structural cinema, 'Wavelengths', as well as improviser and jazz musician. Snow's films have gathered universal recognition as meticulous compositions of image and sound, where the language of the cinema and the language of music enjoy equal status.

Haroon Mirza and Richard Sides
sound perfomance and dj set, 28th September (Friday), 10 pm

In 2011 Haroon Mirza, awarded the Silver Lion at the latest edition of the Venice Biennale, started expanding his artistic practice in a way that would incorporate his semi-professional interest in DJ-ing. By using handmade and broken records along with radios and light bulbs on turntables, Mirza applied the conventions of beatmixing to alternative ways of creating mixtapes. This was later expanded by manipulating LED circuits in order to create electronic instruments designed to accompany DJ sets. Most recently Mirza has begun collaborating with artist and musician Richard Sides, one half of the London/Milan-based PLUTO and recent MA graduate in sculpture from the Royal College of Art. Embarking on what they describe as a 'music project', their interests derive from trance, psychedelia and the origins of electronic music and DJ culture.