Screening of 4ROOMS film in the foyer of the ms1 branch
All visitors to our ms1 branch, 36 Więckowskiego ST. (entrance from 43 Gdańska ST.), we invite you to see the video installation created by the artist Agata Ingarden, whose exhibition "Agata Ingarden. EmoPolis" can be viewed in the ms2 branch, 19 Ogrodowa ST.
You can watch the screening of films from the 4ROOMS series in the foyer of the building during the opening hours of the Museum.
4 ROOMS
video installation
Base Room, (2023), video, HD, sound, 19’12min
Metal Room, (2023), video, HD, sound, 15’min
Rave Room, (2023), video, HD, sound, 18’15 min
Rhythm Room, (2023), video, HD, sound, 13’36min
4ROOMS (Base, Metal, Rave, Rhythm), 2023, is a four-screen video installation initially created for the Tono Festival in Mexico City at the Centro de Cultura Digital. It was also showcased in Emotional Security Services at Berthold Pott, Cologne in 2023.
The four videos depict distinct spaces - rooms within The Dream House World, each contributing energy to the system's operation. The videos document live performances set to music composed by Wladimir Schall. Cameras attached to different parts of performers' bodies capture their intimate perspectives.The music influences different emotional and physical states of the participants, altering how they perceive themselves and their surroundings. The Dream House serves as an imaginary program simulating experiences for characters known as Butterfly People, overseen by Emo-Polis and maintained by Goblin Butterflies. The Butterfly People's movements, emotions, and sweat fuel the program.
The Base Room centers on accessing the core - the gravity point set in the abdomen and its organs. In Metal Room, tension builds within tendons and muscles as strings and guitar chords pull limbs to the extremities of the self. High-pitched sequences in Rave Room accelerate heart rates, bringing ecstasy and fatigue through rushing blood. The Rhythm Room focuses on corporal communication, where fragmented rhythms and repetitive movements start to form a wordless language. All of these moments are an attempt to meet the other looking inward and outward, touching the point where the self dissolves into otherness.
The performances maintain a realistic timeline but include moments occurring in various different spaces like elevators and corridors, hinting at a parallel, maybe mental dimension, accessed through trance states induced by the music or the program itself. Each room echoes different stages of butterfly transformation symbolizing personal becoming both individually and collectively. This emotional space becomes a ground for identity growth and exploring memory construction and reconfiguration.
