/ Voyage
Two feet walking on land, travelling to and from places far and wide apart. Someone on a world tour just after the gates opened in Poland in 1989. The visual cues of places. A form of Geoguesser long before it existed. Instead, footage from a Panasonic VHS, NV-S77, wide-lensed cam recorder with an X14 times zoom. A short film, a handful of stills, and a billboard installed at Wardyński Studio.
The footage, a performance of sorts, was shot over 20 hours of film from sites around the globe—a found travel diary building a syntactic unit of movement, a language of repeated gestures. A camera choreography, leaving the feet the syntax for a story, becomes a key movement trope. Tapes of travels to sites, shown as documents layered with meaning: cut and framed using colours, materials, and sounds.
The footage, a performance of sorts, was shot over 20 hours of film from sites around the globe—a found travel diary building a syntactic unit of movement, a language of repeated gestures. A camera choreography, leaving the feet the syntax for a story, becomes a key movement trope. Tapes of travels to sites, shown as documents layered with meaning: cut and framed using colours, materials, and sounds.
Artist Franek Wardyński weaves the archival footage together to shift the attention to the ground; the almost incomprehensible walking invites us to another way of looking. ‘Voyage deals with narrative and abstraction, and the possible ways of handling space and time, with structure, land, and perception,’ Wardyński explains.
Voyage has been part of the Warsaw Fringe Festival 2024.
Voyage has been part of the Warsaw Fringe Festival 2024.