photo by Michał Matejko
Anna Zaradny – sound and visual artist, composer, improviser and performer. Co-founder of the Musica Genera Festival and the Musica Genera label. The creativity of Anna Zaradny is expressed through sound and visual art. As a composer and instrumentalist she continues the experience of the musical avant-garde. Zaradny works in a wide spectrum of genres: from acoustic improvised music with a contemporary minimalist language to the complex structures of experimental electronic music compositions. As a visual artist, Zaradny creates in various media including conceptual compositions, photography, sound and video installations, multimedia objects in relation to the body, technology, architecture, space, acoustics and immersive-sensory experience. The artist uses abstraction, micro sound and architectonic elements, lights and space. Her pieces are marked by the ambiguity and the relationship between medium and ideas. Zaradny’s works have been presented in festivals and exhibitions all over the world, the last ones so far at: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, SiILBERKUPPE, Berlin, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Sottovoce, London, What is music? Festival, Sydney, Melbourne, All Ears Festival, Oslo, Unsound Festival New York, Exploratory Music From Poland Super-Deluxe Tokyo, Japan. She is also author of music for theatre plays and multimedia projects: National Narodowy, Nowy Teatr, Studio, Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Sound performance/concert „Le group panique with the flesh of the world” Paulina Ołowska and Anna Zaradny homage for Alina Szapocznikow especially commissioned by WIELS Brussels, 2012. The discography of Anna Zaradny includes solo recordings and collaborative projects with a.o.: Burkhard Stangl, Christian Fennesz, Robert Piotrowicz, Tony Buck, Kasper Toeplitz, Cor Fuhler.
Links:
- vimeo.com/annazaradny
- annazaradny.bandcamp.com
- soundcloud.com/annazaradny
- annazaradny.net
- musicagenera.net
- instagram.com/gogotheurgy
- artmuseum.pl/en/filmoteka/
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The Sound Of A Distanced Body, 2020, photo by Iza Miecznikowska
The Sound Of A Distanced Body, 2020, still from video
SYNTHESIZE ME, photo collage, music, video, 2017/2020, photo collage: Anna Zaradny (work in progress)
Full movie: www.artmuseum.pl
RZUT / PARTYTURA PLAN / SCORE, video 2019, still from video teaser
RZUT / PARTYTURA PLAN / SCORE, collage print on tracing paper, 2016, photo: Anna Lebenstejn Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, 2016
LUTOSŁAWSKI CUT, video without sound, obiect, concrete, metal, SOUNDLESS, Galeria Arsenał Białystok 2018 photo: M. Zaniewski
LUTOSŁAWSKI CUT 2016, RONDO DENOTING CIRCLE”, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, 2016 photo: Grzegorz Mart
Theurgy Two, video 2017, music: Anna Zaradny from album „Go Go Theurgy” LP: Musica Genera, MGV6 /BCAZ3 (2016), Theurgy Two, Inne tańce CSW, 2017, photo: Bartek Górka
Theurgy Two, 2017 music: Anna Zaradny from album „Go Go Theurgy” LP: Musica Genera, MGV6 /BCAZ3 (2016) Kasia Michalski Gallery 2017 photo: Marek Gardulski
Full movie: www. artmuseum.pl/en
COMMENSALISM, video & music, stil from video, 2020 (work in progress)
HARMONY OF HAPPINESS (NEVER REACHED), exhibition view, Galeria Starter Warszawa, 2015, photo PION
HARMONY OF HAPPINESS (NEVER REACHED), 8 commemorative melodies on the notebook, 2008
TRIGONOMETRY7, 2009, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, photo by Bartek Satwiarski
TRIGONOMETRY7, 2009, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, photo by Anna Zaradny
Music: Anna Zaradny from split Anna Zaradny/ Burkhard Stangl EP
annazaradny.bandcamp.com/album/anna-zaradny-octopus
RE : EM Anna Zaradny feat Christian Fennesz
