some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime after his attempts to enter into the polish avant-garde collective gównoptakkurwarolnikmelon (dates uncertain, most likely the 70s). he was denied access to this prestigious group, so he went west.
okoniewski used his camera as if it was a capturer of nothingness. a blasphemer, a melon farmer, beckett's three-legged giraffe, the big nowhere.....
okoniewski's trip was motivated by the words of horace greeley.
some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken slightly before his passing (dates uncertain, most likely mid to late 60s).
okoniewski used the un coup de dés technique of "no eyes, no focus, no exposure, no nothing", which came to him after reading a polish translation of mallarmé's poems, and after ruminating on the complex meanings and possibilities of chance and nothingness. his unpublished notes on the subject have been a large influence on the ingenting kollektiva and writers of this web site.
okoniewski at the time was working for the polish company ziemniakwirusnieograniczony, and was doing business in the los angeles region.
some recently discovered photographs from the city of angels by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime after his exile from poland due to some controversial findings in the study of "resistance in diploid potatoes" (dates uncertain, most likely late 60s / early 70s).
okoniewski's aleatoric techniques included not using the camera viewfinder, little or no attention to
focus or exposure issues, often times pointing the camera in a different direction than he was looking, or sometimes in the same direction to see how the throw of the dice camera's vision differed from his own.
okoniewski's trip was motivated by the desire to be in the city that had
been the setting for famous buildings such as the bradbury building, the great courtyard houses, the los angeles aqueduct system, the eames house, the schindler house, art deco masterpieces such as bullocks wilshire & griffith observatory.
(note : please view images in a totally black room, no light if possible)
some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime before his death (dates uncertain, most likely late 60s / early 70s).
okoniewski used the aleatoric technique of not looking through the viewfinder of the camera, with little or no attention to
focus or exposure issues.
okoniewski's trip was motivated by the desire to be in the city that had been the home to artists such as john cage, marcel duchamp, kenneth anger, the many émigrés like thomas mann, bertolt brecht, oskar fischinger, kurt weill, billy wilder.... where hollywood cinema had had many great periods, and left many traces, and where most of the ed ruscha's photographic books had been produced (every building on the sunset strip, thirtyfour parking lots in los angeles, twentysix gasoline stations, some los angeles apartments, and royal road test (for its method).
(note : please view images in a black or near black room, no artificial light especially)
* the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *
excerpt from the limited edition cd portion of the special edition lost beyond telling
constructed and edited by matthew swiezynski & the capellmeister in cöthen
using source material originally constructed by ingenting kollektiva
and originally mastered by taylor deupree
image by tarrl lightowler
"long, complex, emotionally charged pieces using a wide variety of techniques, including strong contrasts in instrumentation, dynamic level, texture, mode and key, repetition scheme, melody, harmony, rhythm, and occasionally even metre."
from malcolm boyd's oxford composer companions : j.s. bach (on chaconne, text by natalie jenne & meredith little)
for the limited edition, we have decided on an edition of 10 for $150 each
edition will include :
a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing listening to fragments of night)
