{"id":6802,"date":"2022-10-31T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2023-01-11T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:33:33","slug":"exhibition-to-freedom-celebrating-art-and-music-of-estonia-poland-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2022\/10\/31\/exhibition-to-freedom-celebrating-art-and-music-of-estonia-poland-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u2018To Freedom\u2019 celebrating art and music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Exhibition<\/strong><br>Monday, November 7-Tuesday, December 17, 2022<br>Exhibition is extended &#8222;by appointment&#8221; until January 9, 2022<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-and-human-sciences\/school-art-design\/freedom-music-art-and-culture-ukraine-poland-and-estonia\"><strong>Furlong Gallery<\/strong><\/a><br>UW-Stout&#8217;s Micheels Hall<br>178 Micheels Hall, Menomonie, WI 54751<br>Opening reception: Monday, November 7, 2022 at 4:30-6:30pm CT<br>World Premiere of&nbsp;<em>Org\u00e9 (2022)&nbsp;<\/em>by Monika Weiss at 5:20pm CT<br><em>Polish artist Monika Weiss performed a&nbsp;live vocal composition and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;composed and choreographed by the artist, with participation by the UW-Stout&nbsp;Chamber Choir and select faculty and students, at the opening reception.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4:30pm Exhibit officially opens to public&nbsp;<br>5:00pm Opening remarks<br>5:05pm Music presentation by Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir<br>5:20pm&nbsp;<em>Org\u00e9&nbsp;<\/em>performance by Monika Weiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concert<\/strong><br>Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 7pm CT<br>Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church in Menomonie<br>910 9th St E, Menomonie, WI 54751<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UW-Stout\u2019s choral areas and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-and-human-sciences\/school-art-design\/furlong-gallery\"><strong>Furlong Gallery<\/strong><\/a>, within the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-and-human-sciences\/school-art-design\"><strong>School of Art and Design<\/strong><\/a>, have collaborated to bring the&nbsp;art, history and music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine to the communities of the Chippewa Valley. \u201cTo Freedom\u201d celebrates the nations\u2019 heritage and helps build ties between neighbors during a series of cultural offerings open to community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration opened with an art exhibit featuring artists of Estonian, Polish and Ukrainian descent. It is on display from Monday, Nov. 7, to Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Furlong Gallery in UW-Stout\u2019s Micheels Hall. An artist reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A concert featuring four area choirs and celebrating the music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine was held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, in Menomonie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibiting artists are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/riivosuave\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Riivo Kruuk<\/strong><\/a>, an Estonian American painter<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cshmigel\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Christina Shmigel<\/strong><\/a>, a Ukrainian American artist<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monikaweiss.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Monika Weiss<\/strong><\/a>, an internationally renowned Polish American artist.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/uws_medium_vertical_480_640_\/public\/2022-10\/Riivo%20Kruuk%2C%20Kattemaks%2C%20for%20the%20web.jpg?h=e850add9&amp;itok=xhHOSgsD\" alt=\"Riivo Kruuk, Kattemaks\" width=\"265\" height=\"353\" \/><figcaption>Riivo Kruuk\u2019s K\u00e4ttemaks (Revenge).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Kruuk<\/strong>&nbsp;is a painter and mural artist from Charleston, S.C. Working in oils, acrylic and spray paint, he is inspired by graffiti, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, street art, fashion, nature and his Estonian heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shmigel<\/strong>&nbsp;is a first-generation child of parents who left Ukraine during WWII and grew up active in the Ukrainian diaspora community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A practicing artist, Shmigel teaches art on the university level. Her works address architectural structure, process, ritual and place. She is based in St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weiss<\/strong>, over the past 25 years, has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of moving image, sound, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and motives include sound, water, the body, stillness, doubling and gestures of lamentation. She often focuses on a relationship to history and collective remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;To Freedom\u201d will feature Weiss\u2019s Koiman II (Years Without Summers), a 20-minute film inspired by Winterreise, composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert. The work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss, and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weiss divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been featured in more than 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications, including the New York Times, ARTnews and Art in America. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Weiss\u2019s biography is written by Katarzyna Fal\u0119cka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other student opportunities in October include visual artists visiting various studio art courses. Guest lecturers Natalia Ripeckyj, of Eau Claire, and Natalie Nowytski, a Minneapolis-based Ukrainian folk musician, will visit UW-Stout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A rare opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of Choral Activities Jerry Hui&nbsp;appreciates the many external partners supporting \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d including the official cultural arms of three countries: the Estonian Consulate General in New York, the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. Also contributing were the&nbsp;Ukrainian American Community Center of Minnesota and Wisconsin Ukrainians Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a rare opportunity for UW-Stout to partner directly with cultural bearers of specific geographical regions in creating these rich educational experiences,\u201d Hui said.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/uws_medium_vertical_480_640_\/public\/2022-10\/Riivo%20Kruuk%2C%20Vabadusele%2C%20for%20the%20web.jpg?h=52c8339d&amp;itok=ZpleVqf7\" alt=\"Riivo Kruuk, Vabadusele\" width=\"264\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption>Riivo Kruuk\u2019s Vabadusele (To Freedom).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jaanika Peerna, cultural affairs coordinator at the Estonian Consulate General in New York, said \u201cthe consulate is delighted to collaborate with UW-Stout on a project which sheds light on the powerful role culture plays in fighting for democratic values and connecting people from different walks of life. It\u2019s not every day we get to work with so passionate a professor as Dr. Jerry Hui who initiated 'To Freedom&#8217; and has been leading the project so wonderfully.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf even just a fragment from a melody from a Ukrainian song, a visual detail from an Estonian artist\u2019s painting, or a single word from the Polish language would stay lingering in a student\u2019s mind, this could be a steppingstone to a much more in-depth inquiry into the role of culture as a tool for transformation,\u201d Peerna said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute has worked with various universities. \u201cWe hope that through&nbsp;the \u2018To Freedom\u2019&nbsp;project, the students at UW-Stout as well as residents of the greater Eau Claire-Menomonie area will learn about and relate to Ukrainian cultural heritage and its universal democratic values embraced and emphasized by Polish and Estonian cultures,\u201d said Izabela Gola, curator of visual arts and design, Polish Cultural Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still3-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6812\" width=\"496\" height=\"275\" \/><figcaption>A still from Monika Weiss\u2019s short film Koiman II (Years Without Summers).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe anticipate that the project participants will connect with the broader humanitarian and reconciliatory message that the work of Monika Weiss contributes to this project,\u201d Gola added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathy Nalywajko, president of the Ukrainian Institute of America believes \u201cthe arts offer a means to expand our understanding of the nature and character of conflict through the application of a different lens, and, crucially, a means to understand society\u2019s changing attitudes to war and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited and proud to have played a role alongside our Estonian and Polish friends in celebrating the unique artistic and living cultures of our respective heritages in&nbsp;\u2018To Freedom,\u2019\u201d Nalywaiko added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sharing musical traditions in concert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the exhibit, four area choirs will perform \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d a concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, 910 Ninth St. E., Menomonie.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/small\/public\/2022-10\/symphonic_singers_2.jpg?itok=qH_2GWXB\" alt=\"icon\" \/><figcaption>Director of Choral Activities Jerry Hui and UW-Stout Symphonic Singers&nbsp;\/&nbsp;UW-Stout<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>UW-Stout Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir, conducted by Hui,&nbsp;will perform music from Ukraine, Poland and Estonia that speaks to the perils of war and the desire for peace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples include \u201cHej Soko\u0142y,\u201d a Polish folk song about a soldier\u2019s longing for his Ukrainian beloved; and \u201cFor Ukraine,\u201d composed by Estonian contemporary composer Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr only six months ago. The university choirs will be joined by Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Treble Singers from the Menomonie Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siim S\u00f6\u00f6t, honorary consul of Estonia, plans to provide a presentation on Estonian history and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swanlakeballetstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Swan Lake Ballet and Ganna Ensemble<\/strong><\/a>, an Eau Claire-based dance studio, will perform to some of the songs.&nbsp;The ensemble is led by Ganna Berge, a lecturer in UW-Stout\u2019s mathematics, statistics and computer science department. She was born in Crimea, a peninsula that borders Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are $5 and will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uwstout.universitytickets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>available to purchase online<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in late October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope people who attend the concert or visit the exhibition will gain a new appreciation of the culture and history from Central Europe and may be motivated to seek further understanding in this region that has dominated recent news,\u201d Hui said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwstout.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/uws_medium_vertical_480_640_\/public\/2022-10\/Monika%20Weiss%20Artist%20Portrait%2001%20.jpg?itok=9kwGGLgl\" alt=\"Monika Weiss Artist Portrait\" width=\"245\" height=\"327\" \/><figcaption>Polish American artist Monika Weiss. Artist Portrait, 2021 by Paul Takeuchi&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Monika Weiss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still2-1024x572.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6813\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still2-1024x572.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still2-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still2-768x429.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Monika-Weiss-Koiman-II-Years-Without-Summers_2017-sound-and-film-still2.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption>A still from Monika Weiss\u2019s short film Koiman II (Years Without Summers).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Work 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Koiman II (Years Without Summers)<\/em>, 2017-<br>Sound composition, 4K film projection<br>Duration (part I): 20 min.<br>Edition of 3 + 2 AP<br>Directed, recorded, written, composed, choreographed, filmed and edited by the artist<br>Piano: the artist<br>Movement performance: the artist<br>Voice: Maksymilian Bielecki<br>Poem:&nbsp;<em>Gute Nacht<\/em>&nbsp;by Wilhelm M\u00fcller, part of&nbsp;<em>Winterreise<\/em>, 24 poems set to music by Franz Schubert (1828)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional credits: Sound was mastered at Harvestworks, New York and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR. Special thanks to Matthew Ostrowski and Adam Hogan.&nbsp;Filmed on location as part of the artist\u2019s residencies at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY and YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY. Additional filming took place in Brattleboro, VT and Brooklyn, NY. Special thanks to Eddy Bird and the late Dina Helal. In memory of Gabriela Weiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Koiman II \u2013 Years Without Summers (24 Nocturnes)<\/em><\/strong><em>, 2017- , a deeply personal and political work, comprises twenty-four film projections, an equal number of sound compositions and large charcoal and graphite drawings. The subtitle derives from the 1815 volcanic explosion in present day Indonesia that affected the global environment leading to what was described as \u201ca year without summer\u201d (in 1816). The ensuing darkness in parts of the world caused by volcanic ash was described by those who witnessed it, and is compared by Weiss to the darkness that envelops our world: refugee crises, climate change and the rise of blinkered nationalist ideologies. In the film, set against desolate and dark landscapes and sites of abandonment, the protagonist gestures and moves silently. The drawings that evoke the explosion appear momentarily superimposed on the figure creating a suggestive union. Whereas the drawings were conceived as independent works, their relation to the film enriches their autonomy. Graphically they resist, their media (graphite powder and archival glue) links directly to the historic past while evoking the notion that through the obscurity of ash, our culture cannot perceive its own future.<\/em> &#8211; Mark McDonald, curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, \u201cDrawing Consciousness: Monika Weiss\u201d in &nbsp;<em>Monika Weiss-Nirbhaya,&nbsp;<\/em>Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, 2021, p. 68&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by&nbsp;<em>Winterreise<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Winter Journey),&nbsp;<\/em>a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert, this work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist. Following the eruption of volcano Tambora, Indonesia in 1815, the spreading ash cloud cooled global temperatures by reflecting and scattering sunlight and impacted weather patterns in Europe and in the northeastern United States. Rain, frost and snowfall occurred throughout the summer of 1816, causing agricultural disaster, famine and migration. Scholarly research suggests that severe weather may have inspired works by a number of artists, poets and composers of the time, including Schubert and Turner. The accounts by travelers who were at sea following the Tambora explosion, describe darkness during the day, making it impossible \u201cto see your hand outstretched.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Two hundred years later the world appears to me as if shrouded in a symbolic ash cloud resulting from the global climate change, the collapse of Arab Spring, the current refugee crisis and the gradual and global move towards fascist ideologies. My project Koiman II is meant to evoke this notion of darkness, eruption, explosion, coldness and clouding, and is greatly affected by global conditions\u2014such as displacement, violation and exploitation of bodies of others\u2014which mirror the abuse and gradual disintegration of the natural environment resulting from colonial agendas.<\/em> &#8211; Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Work 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thinking of History<\/em>, 2022<br>Sound composition<br>Duration (part I): 10 min.<br>Composed by the artist<br>Voice performers: Kurt Gottschalk, Tyler Krszjzaniek, Jeremie Lambert-Delhomme, Sharlene Lee, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Neha Naraya, Nicolas Reeves, and the artist<br>Opera vocalist: Anna Wasilewska<br>Piano: the artist<br>Additional credits:&nbsp;Mastered by Artist Tapes and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, special thanks to Adam Hogan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thinking of History<\/em>&nbsp;is a new sound work by Monika Weiss commissioned by media scholar and author Ming-Yuen S. Ma and based on a sentence which he artist chose from his book&nbsp;<em>There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Live premiere of&nbsp;<em>Thinking of History&nbsp;<\/em>took place on April 7, 2022, as part of&nbsp;<em>This is not a reading \/ Ceci n&#8217;est pas une lecture<\/em>, a series of remixes and conversations inspired by sound, in which the author Ming-Yuen S. Ma invites artists discussed in his book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thinking of History&nbsp;is a song in three parts. The first scene represents a dark ocean of history evoked by drone sounds, with a single female voice singing wordlessly as if from a great distance. I composed the middle part by recording a number of readers, creating a tempest of voices. Throughout the piece we hear underlying drones based on my piano improvisations but transformed electronically such that the piano is no longer recognizable. In the last part of the composition, the piano enters, now fully identifiable, responding rhythmically to the words and sentences we heard earlier.&nbsp;I finished the composition on February 23, 2022. The day after, on February 24th, I woke up to a world that changed forever.&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Work 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Org\u00e9<\/em>, 2022<br>Composed and choreographed by the artist<br>Voices: Chamber Choir and selected students and faculty of University of Wisconsin-Stout<br>Duration: 20 min.<br>Additional credits: TBD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monika Weiss invites selected students and faculty of the UW to participate as performers\/singers in her new live sound piece,&nbsp;<em>Org\u00e9,<\/em>&nbsp;devoted to victim of war against Ukraine.&nbsp;<em>Org\u0113<\/em>&nbsp;belongs to an ongoing series of vocal, cinematic and choreographed projects by the intermedia artist Monika Weiss which evoke ancient rituals of lamentation and address collective memory and historical trauma.&nbsp;The artist\u2019s minimalist musical composition is built as a choral and sculptural environment to resemble a forest of voices. The performers will stand interspersed throughout the gallery space around and will sustain vocal sounds for the duration of the performance. Spectators will be able to walk through this field of live vocal sound and experience being on the inside of&nbsp;<em>Org\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOrg\u00e9&nbsp;is an ancient Greek word which means \u201cwrath\u201d. It&nbsp;comes from the verb&nbsp;orag\u014d&nbsp;meaning, \u201cto teem, to&nbsp;swell\u201d and thus implies not a sudden outburst, but rather&nbsp;a permanent, established, and passionate feeling, solidifying what the beholder considers&nbsp;wrong.&nbsp;Lament in my art appears as a musical and visual form of expression connoting power and resistance. The meaning and beauty of Lament &#8211; the various forms of Lament organized as music and choreographed in opposition to the raging and raping violence of war \u2013 are essentially emancipatory. In my work Lament becomes marked by the power of what I call,&nbsp;unforgetting.&nbsp;Org\u00e9&nbsp;will be sung as a protest but also as an expression of a hope that transformation towards freedom is still possible.\u201d<\/em> <em>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"462\" data-id=\"7398\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07299-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07299-NEW.jpg 693w, 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https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07315-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07315-NEW.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"462\" data-id=\"7404\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07323-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07323-NEW.jpg 693w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07323-NEW-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"7400\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07325-NEW-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07325-NEW-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07325-NEW-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07325-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07325-NEW.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"462\" data-id=\"7405\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07331-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07331-NEW.jpg 693w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/DSC07331-NEW-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monika Weiss&#8217; Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past twenty-five years,&nbsp;the prominent New York-based Polish artist <strong>Monika Weiss<\/strong> (b. 1964)&nbsp;has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of sound, moving image, sculpture, performance and drawing.&nbsp;Recurring material and conceptual motives in Monika Weiss\u2019 work include sonic space, water, the body, slow movement, doubling and gestures of lament, performed and choreographed in response to collective trauma.&nbsp;Her synesthetic art resists closure as it explores states of transformation and oscillates, as Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)&nbsp;noted, \u201cbetween proposal and presence, the allusive and the tangible\u201d. Weiss\u2019 work has been featured in over 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications including&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ARTnews<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Art in America<\/em>. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. In 2021 a new bi-lingual monograph&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ksiegarnia.rzezba-oronsko.pl\/product_info.php?osCsid=00c080b31918da5994a27bd0d56a103b&amp;products_id=221\"><em>Monika Weiss &#8211; Nirbhaya<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;was published by The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, with texts including feminist art historian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ahc.leeds.ac.uk\/fine-art\/staff\/410\/prof-griselda-pollock\">Griselda Pollock<\/a>, The Met curator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/about-the-met\/curatorial-departments\/drawings-and-prints\/staff\">Mark McDonald<\/a>, and the acclaimed Indian American poet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/meena-alexander\">Meena Alexander<\/a>.&nbsp;As part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art series&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNEU6jhk0zU\"><em>Artists on Art<\/em><\/a><em>works<\/em>, a 30 min. film with Monika Weiss speaking on her work and on the work of Goya, premiered in 2021. Since 2011 the artist divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis.&nbsp;Devoted to forgotten victims of everyday gendered violence Weiss\u2019 monument\/antimonument&nbsp;<em>Nirbhaya<\/em>&nbsp;is planned to open in 2023 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, the Gateway to the United Nations in New York, for several months duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead image: Monika Weiss, Koiman II (Years Without Summers) (2017). Sound and film. Film still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-11.04.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6804\" width=\"214\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-11.04.37-AM.png 456w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-11.04.37-AM-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ExhibitionMonday, November 7-Tuesday, December 17, 2022Exhibition is extended &#8222;by appointment&#8221; until January 9, 2022Furlong GalleryUW-Stout&#8217;s Micheels Hall178 Micheels Hall, Menomonie, WI 54751Opening reception: Monday, November 7, 2022 at 4:30-6:30pm CTWorld Premiere of&nbsp;Org\u00e9 (2022)&nbsp;by Monika Weiss at 5:20pm CTPolish artist Monika Weiss performed a&nbsp;live vocal composition and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;composed and choreographed by the artist, with participation by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":6814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-visual-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exhibition \u2018To Freedom\u2019 celebrating art and music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine - Instytut 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November 7-Tuesday, December 17, 2022Exhibition is extended \\\"by appointment\\\" until January 9, 2022Furlong GalleryUW-Stout's Micheels Hall178 Micheels Hall, Menomonie, WI 54751Opening reception: Monday, November 7, 2022 at 4:30-6:30pm CTWorld Premiere of Org\u00e9 (2022) by Monika Weiss at 5:20pm CTPolish artist Monika Weiss performed a live vocal composition and performance composed and choreographed by the artist, with participation by the UW-Stout Chamber Choir and select faculty and students, at the opening reception.\\n4:30pm Exhibit officially opens to public 5:00pm Opening remarks5:05pm Music presentation by Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir5:20pm Org\u00e9 performance by Monika Weiss\\nConcertSaturday, December 3, 2022 at 7pm CTOur Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church in Menomonie910 9th St E, Menomonie, WI 54751\\nUW-Stout\u2019s choral areas and Furlong Gallery, within the School of Art and Design, have collaborated to bring the art, history and music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine to the communities of the Chippewa Valley. \u201cTo Freedom\u201d celebrates the nations\u2019 heritage and helps build ties between neighbors during a series of cultural offerings open to community members.\\nThe celebration opened with an art exhibit featuring artists of Estonian, Polish and Ukrainian descent. It is on display from Monday, Nov. 7, to Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Furlong Gallery in UW-Stout\u2019s Micheels Hall. An artist reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 7.\\nA concert featuring four area choirs and celebrating the music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine was held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, in Menomonie.\\nThe exhibiting artists are: \\nRiivo Kruuk, an Estonian American painterChristina Shmigel, a Ukrainian American artistMonika Weiss, an internationally renowned Polish American artist.\\nKruuk is a painter and mural artist from Charleston, S.C. Working in oils, acrylic and spray paint, he is inspired by graffiti, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, street art, fashion, nature and his Estonian heritage.\\nShmigel is a first-generation child of parents who left Ukraine during WWII and grew up active in the Ukrainian diaspora community. \\nA practicing artist, Shmigel teaches art on the university level. Her works address architectural structure, process, ritual and place. She is based in St. Louis.\\nWeiss, over the past 25 years, has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of moving image, sound, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and motives include sound, water, the body, stillness, doubling and gestures of lamentation. She often focuses on a relationship to history and collective remembrance.\\n\\\"To Freedom\u201d will feature Weiss\u2019s Koiman II (Years Without Summers), a 20-minute film inspired by Winterreise, composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert. The work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss, and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist.\\nWeiss divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been featured in more than 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications, including the New York Times, ARTnews and Art in America. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Weiss\u2019s biography is written by Katarzyna Fal\u0119cka.\\nOther student opportunities in October include visual artists visiting various studio art courses. Guest lecturers Natalia Ripeckyj, of Eau Claire, and Natalie Nowytski, a Minneapolis-based Ukrainian folk musician, will visit UW-Stout.\\nA rare opportunity\\nDirector of Choral Activities Jerry Hui appreciates the many external partners supporting \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d including the official cultural arms of three countries: the Estonian Consulate General in New York, the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. Also contributing were the Ukrainian American Community Center of Minnesota and Wisconsin Ukrainians Inc.\\n\u201cIt is a rare opportunity for UW-Stout to partner directly with cultural bearers of specific geographical regions in creating these rich educational experiences,\u201d Hui said.\\nJaanika Peerna, cultural affairs coordinator at the Estonian Consulate General in New York, said \u201cthe consulate is delighted to collaborate with UW-Stout on a project which sheds light on the powerful role culture plays in fighting for democratic values and connecting people from different walks of life. It\u2019s not every day we get to work with so passionate a professor as Dr. Jerry Hui who initiated 'To Freedom' and has been leading the project so wonderfully. \\n\u201cIf even just a fragment from a melody from a Ukrainian song, a visual detail from an Estonian artist\u2019s painting, or a single word from the Polish language would stay lingering in a student\u2019s mind, this could be a steppingstone to a much more in-depth inquiry into the role of culture as a tool for transformation,\u201d Peerna said. \\nSince its foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute has worked with various universities. \u201cWe hope that through the \u2018To Freedom\u2019 project, the students at UW-Stout as well as residents of the greater Eau Claire-Menomonie area will learn about and relate to Ukrainian cultural heritage and its universal democratic values embraced and emphasized by Polish and Estonian cultures,\u201d said Izabela Gola, curator of visual arts and design, Polish Cultural Institute.\\n\u201cWe anticipate that the project participants will connect with the broader humanitarian and reconciliatory message that the work of Monika Weiss contributes to this project,\u201d Gola added.\\nKathy Nalywajko, president of the Ukrainian Institute of America believes \u201cthe arts offer a means to expand our understanding of the nature and character of conflict through the application of a different lens, and, crucially, a means to understand society\u2019s changing attitudes to war and peace.\\n\u201cWe\u2019re excited and proud to have played a role alongside our Estonian and Polish friends in celebrating the unique artistic and living cultures of our respective heritages in \u2018To Freedom,\u2019\u201d Nalywaiko added. \\nSharing musical traditions in concert\\nIn addition to the exhibit, four area choirs will perform \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d a concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, 910 Ninth St. E., Menomonie.\\nUW-Stout Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir, conducted by Hui, will perform music from Ukraine, Poland and Estonia that speaks to the perils of war and the desire for peace. \\nExamples include \u201cHej Soko\u0142y,\u201d a Polish folk song about a soldier\u2019s longing for his Ukrainian beloved; and \u201cFor Ukraine,\u201d composed by Estonian contemporary composer Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr only six months ago. The university choirs will be joined by Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire and the Treble Singers from the Menomonie Middle School.\\nSiim S\u00f6\u00f6t, honorary consul of Estonia, plans to provide a presentation on Estonian history and culture.\\nSwan Lake Ballet and Ganna Ensemble, an Eau Claire-based dance studio, will perform to some of the songs. The ensemble is led by Ganna Berge, a lecturer in UW-Stout\u2019s mathematics, statistics and computer science department. She was born in Crimea, a peninsula that borders Ukraine and Russia.\\nTickets are $5 and will be available to purchase online in late October.\\n\u201cI hope people who attend the concert or visit the exhibition will gain a new appreciation of the culture and history from Central Europe and may be motivated to seek further understanding in this region that has dominated recent news,\u201d Hui said.\\nMonika Weiss\\nWork 1\\nKoiman II (Years Without Summers), 2017-Sound composition, 4K film projectionDuration (part I): 20 min.Edition of 3 + 2 APDirected, recorded, written, composed, choreographed, filmed and edited by the artistPiano: the artistMovement performance: the artistVoice: Maksymilian BieleckiPoem: Gute Nacht by Wilhelm M\u00fcller, part of Winterreise, 24 poems set to music by Franz Schubert (1828)\\nAdditional credits: Sound was mastered at Harvestworks, New York and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR. Special thanks to Matthew Ostrowski and Adam Hogan. Filmed on location as part of the artist\u2019s residencies at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY and YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY. Additional filming took place in Brattleboro, VT and Brooklyn, NY. Special thanks to Eddy Bird and the late Dina Helal. In memory of Gabriela Weiss.\\nKoiman II \u2013 Years Without Summers (24 Nocturnes), 2017- , a deeply personal and political work, comprises twenty-four film projections, an equal number of sound compositions and large charcoal and graphite drawings. The subtitle derives from the 1815 volcanic explosion in present day Indonesia that affected the global environment leading to what was described as \u201ca year without summer\u201d (in 1816). The ensuing darkness in parts of the world caused by volcanic ash was described by those who witnessed it, and is compared by Weiss to the darkness that envelops our world: refugee crises, climate change and the rise of blinkered nationalist ideologies. In the film, set against desolate and dark landscapes and sites of abandonment, the protagonist gestures and moves silently. The drawings that evoke the explosion appear momentarily superimposed on the figure creating a suggestive union. Whereas the drawings were conceived as independent works, their relation to the film enriches their autonomy. Graphically they resist, their media (graphite powder and archival glue) links directly to the historic past while evoking the notion that through the obscurity of ash, our culture cannot perceive its own future. - Mark McDonald, curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, \u201cDrawing Consciousness: Monika Weiss\u201d in  Monika Weiss-Nirbhaya, Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, 2021, p. 68 \\nInspired by Winterreise (Winter Journey), a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert, this work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist. Following the eruption of volcano Tambora, Indonesia in 1815, the spreading ash cloud cooled global temperatures by reflecting and scattering sunlight and impacted weather patterns in Europe and in the northeastern United States. Rain, frost and snowfall occurred throughout the summer of 1816, causing agricultural disaster, famine and migration. Scholarly research suggests that severe weather may have inspired works by a number of artists, poets and composers of the time, including Schubert and Turner. The accounts by travelers who were at sea following the Tambora explosion, describe darkness during the day, making it impossible \u201cto see your hand outstretched.\u201d \\nTwo hundred years later the world appears to me as if shrouded in a symbolic ash cloud resulting from the global climate change, the collapse of Arab Spring, the current refugee crisis and the gradual and global move towards fascist ideologies. My project Koiman II is meant to evoke this notion of darkness, eruption, explosion, coldness and clouding, and is greatly affected by global conditions\u2014such as displacement, violation and exploitation of bodies of others\u2014which mirror the abuse and gradual disintegration of the natural environment resulting from colonial agendas. - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2017\\nWork 2\\nThinking of History, 2022Sound compositionDuration (part I): 10 min.Composed by the artistVoice performers: Kurt Gottschalk, Tyler Krszjzaniek, Jeremie Lambert-Delhomme, Sharlene Lee, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Neha Naraya, Nicolas Reeves, and the artistOpera vocalist: Anna WasilewskaPiano: the artistAdditional credits: Mastered by Artist Tapes and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, special thanks to Adam Hogan\\nThinking of History is a new sound work by Monika Weiss commissioned by media scholar and author Ming-Yuen S. Ma and based on a sentence which he artist chose from his book There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract.  Live premiere of Thinking of History took place on April 7, 2022, as part of This is not a reading \/ Ceci n'est pas une lecture, a series of remixes and conversations inspired by sound, in which the author Ming-Yuen S. Ma invites artists discussed in his book.\\nThinking of History is a song in three parts. The first scene represents a dark ocean of history evoked by drone sounds, with a single female voice singing wordlessly as if from a great distance. I composed the middle part by recording a number of readers, creating a tempest of voices. Throughout the piece we hear underlying drones based on my piano improvisations but transformed electronically such that the piano is no longer recognizable. In the last part of the composition, the piano enters, now fully identifiable, responding rhythmically to the words and sentences we heard earlier. I finished the composition on February 23, 2022. The day after, on February 24th, I woke up to a world that changed forever. - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022\\nWork 3\\nOrg\u00e9, 2022Composed and choreographed by the artistVoices: Chamber Choir and selected students and faculty of University of Wisconsin-StoutDuration: 20 min.Additional credits: TBD\\nMonika Weiss invites selected students and faculty of the UW to participate as performers\/singers in her new live sound piece, Org\u00e9, devoted to victim of war against Ukraine. Org\u0113 belongs to an ongoing series of vocal, cinematic and choreographed projects by the intermedia artist Monika Weiss which evoke ancient rituals of lamentation and address collective memory and historical trauma. The artist\u2019s minimalist musical composition is built as a choral and sculptural environment to resemble a forest of voices. The performers will stand interspersed throughout the gallery space around and will sustain vocal sounds for the duration of the performance. Spectators will be able to walk through this field of live vocal sound and experience being on the inside of Org\u00e9. \\n\u201cOrg\u00e9 is an ancient Greek word which means \u201cwrath\u201d. It comes from the verb orag\u014d meaning, \u201cto teem, to swell\u201d and thus implies not a sudden outburst, but rather a permanent, established, and passionate feeling, solidifying what the beholder considers wrong. Lament in my art appears as a musical and visual form of expression connoting power and resistance. The meaning and beauty of Lament - the various forms of Lament organized as music and choreographed in opposition to the raging and raping violence of war \u2013 are essentially emancipatory. In my work Lament becomes marked by the power of what I call, unforgetting. Org\u00e9 will be sung as a protest but also as an expression of a hope that transformation towards freedom is still possible.\u201d - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022\\nMonika Weiss' Bio\\nOver the past twenty-five years, the prominent New York-based Polish artist Monika Weiss (b. 1964) has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of sound, moving image, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and conceptual motives in Monika Weiss\u2019 work include sonic space, water, the body, slow movement, doubling and gestures of lament, performed and choreographed in response to collective trauma. Her synesthetic art resists closure as it explores states of transformation and oscillates, as Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) noted, \u201cbetween proposal and presence, the allusive and the tangible\u201d. Weiss\u2019 work has been featured in over 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications including The New York Times, ARTnews, and Art in America. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. In 2021 a new bi-lingual monograph Monika Weiss - Nirbhaya was published by The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, with texts including feminist art historian Griselda Pollock, The Met curator Mark McDonald, and the acclaimed Indian American poet Meena Alexander. As part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art series Artists on Artworks, a 30 min. film with Monika Weiss speaking on her work and on the work of Goya, premiered in 2021. Since 2011 the artist divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Devoted to forgotten victims of everyday gendered violence Weiss\u2019 monument\/antimonument Nirbhaya is planned to open in 2023 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, the Gateway to the United Nations in New York, for several months duration.\\nLead image: Monika Weiss, Koiman II (Years Without Summers) (2017). Sound and film. 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It is on display from Monday, Nov. 7, to Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Furlong Gallery in UW-Stout\u2019s Micheels Hall. An artist reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 7.\nA concert featuring four area choirs and celebrating the music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine was held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, in Menomonie.\nThe exhibiting artists are: \nRiivo Kruuk, an Estonian American painterChristina Shmigel, a Ukrainian American artistMonika Weiss, an internationally renowned Polish American artist.\nKruuk is a painter and mural artist from Charleston, S.C. Working in oils, acrylic and spray paint, he is inspired by graffiti, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, street art, fashion, nature and his Estonian heritage.\nShmigel is a first-generation child of parents who left Ukraine during WWII and grew up active in the Ukrainian diaspora community. \nA practicing artist, Shmigel teaches art on the university level. Her works address architectural structure, process, ritual and place. She is based in St. Louis.\nWeiss, over the past 25 years, has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of moving image, sound, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and motives include sound, water, the body, stillness, doubling and gestures of lamentation. She often focuses on a relationship to history and collective remembrance.\n\"To Freedom\u201d will feature Weiss\u2019s Koiman II (Years Without Summers), a 20-minute film inspired by Winterreise, composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert. The work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss, and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist.\nWeiss divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been featured in more than 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications, including the New York Times, ARTnews and Art in America. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Weiss\u2019s biography is written by Katarzyna Fal\u0119cka.\nOther student opportunities in October include visual artists visiting various studio art courses. Guest lecturers Natalia Ripeckyj, of Eau Claire, and Natalie Nowytski, a Minneapolis-based Ukrainian folk musician, will visit UW-Stout.\nA rare opportunity\nDirector of Choral Activities Jerry Hui appreciates the many external partners supporting \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d including the official cultural arms of three countries: the Estonian Consulate General in New York, the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. Also contributing were the Ukrainian American Community Center of Minnesota and Wisconsin Ukrainians Inc.\n\u201cIt is a rare opportunity for UW-Stout to partner directly with cultural bearers of specific geographical regions in creating these rich educational experiences,\u201d Hui said.\nJaanika Peerna, cultural affairs coordinator at the Estonian Consulate General in New York, said \u201cthe consulate is delighted to collaborate with UW-Stout on a project which sheds light on the powerful role culture plays in fighting for democratic values and connecting people from different walks of life. It\u2019s not every day we get to work with so passionate a professor as Dr. Jerry Hui who initiated 'To Freedom' and has been leading the project so wonderfully. \n\u201cIf even just a fragment from a melody from a Ukrainian song, a visual detail from an Estonian artist\u2019s painting, or a single word from the Polish language would stay lingering in a student\u2019s mind, this could be a steppingstone to a much more in-depth inquiry into the role of culture as a tool for transformation,\u201d Peerna said. \nSince its foundation, the Polish Cultural Institute has worked with various universities. \u201cWe hope that through the \u2018To Freedom\u2019 project, the students at UW-Stout as well as residents of the greater Eau Claire-Menomonie area will learn about and relate to Ukrainian cultural heritage and its universal democratic values embraced and emphasized by Polish and Estonian cultures,\u201d said Izabela Gola, curator of visual arts and design, Polish Cultural Institute.\n\u201cWe anticipate that the project participants will connect with the broader humanitarian and reconciliatory message that the work of Monika Weiss contributes to this project,\u201d Gola added.\nKathy Nalywajko, president of the Ukrainian Institute of America believes \u201cthe arts offer a means to expand our understanding of the nature and character of conflict through the application of a different lens, and, crucially, a means to understand society\u2019s changing attitudes to war and peace.\n\u201cWe\u2019re excited and proud to have played a role alongside our Estonian and Polish friends in celebrating the unique artistic and living cultures of our respective heritages in \u2018To Freedom,\u2019\u201d Nalywaiko added. \nSharing musical traditions in concert\nIn addition to the exhibit, four area choirs will perform \u201cTo Freedom,\u201d a concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church, 910 Ninth St. E., Menomonie.\nUW-Stout Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir, conducted by Hui, will perform music from Ukraine, Poland and Estonia that speaks to the perils of war and the desire for peace. \nExamples include \u201cHej Soko\u0142y,\u201d a Polish folk song about a soldier\u2019s longing for his Ukrainian beloved; and \u201cFor Ukraine,\u201d composed by Estonian contemporary composer Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr only six months ago. The university choirs will be joined by Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire and the Treble Singers from the Menomonie Middle School.\nSiim S\u00f6\u00f6t, honorary consul of Estonia, plans to provide a presentation on Estonian history and culture.\nSwan Lake Ballet and Ganna Ensemble, an Eau Claire-based dance studio, will perform to some of the songs. The ensemble is led by Ganna Berge, a lecturer in UW-Stout\u2019s mathematics, statistics and computer science department. She was born in Crimea, a peninsula that borders Ukraine and Russia.\nTickets are $5 and will be available to purchase online in late October.\n\u201cI hope people who attend the concert or visit the exhibition will gain a new appreciation of the culture and history from Central Europe and may be motivated to seek further understanding in this region that has dominated recent news,\u201d Hui said.\nMonika Weiss\nWork 1\nKoiman II (Years Without Summers), 2017-Sound composition, 4K film projectionDuration (part I): 20 min.Edition of 3 + 2 APDirected, recorded, written, composed, choreographed, filmed and edited by the artistPiano: the artistMovement performance: the artistVoice: Maksymilian BieleckiPoem: Gute Nacht by Wilhelm M\u00fcller, part of Winterreise, 24 poems set to music by Franz Schubert (1828)\nAdditional credits: Sound was mastered at Harvestworks, New York and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR. Special thanks to Matthew Ostrowski and Adam Hogan. Filmed on location as part of the artist\u2019s residencies at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY and YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY. Additional filming took place in Brattleboro, VT and Brooklyn, NY. Special thanks to Eddy Bird and the late Dina Helal. In memory of Gabriela Weiss.\nKoiman II \u2013 Years Without Summers (24 Nocturnes), 2017- , a deeply personal and political work, comprises twenty-four film projections, an equal number of sound compositions and large charcoal and graphite drawings. The subtitle derives from the 1815 volcanic explosion in present day Indonesia that affected the global environment leading to what was described as \u201ca year without summer\u201d (in 1816). The ensuing darkness in parts of the world caused by volcanic ash was described by those who witnessed it, and is compared by Weiss to the darkness that envelops our world: refugee crises, climate change and the rise of blinkered nationalist ideologies. In the film, set against desolate and dark landscapes and sites of abandonment, the protagonist gestures and moves silently. The drawings that evoke the explosion appear momentarily superimposed on the figure creating a suggestive union. Whereas the drawings were conceived as independent works, their relation to the film enriches their autonomy. Graphically they resist, their media (graphite powder and archival glue) links directly to the historic past while evoking the notion that through the obscurity of ash, our culture cannot perceive its own future. - Mark McDonald, curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, \u201cDrawing Consciousness: Monika Weiss\u201d in  Monika Weiss-Nirbhaya, Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, 2021, p. 68 \nInspired by Winterreise (Winter Journey), a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano composed in 1828 by the German Romantic composer Franz Schubert, this work is dedicated to the artist\u2019s late mother, pianist Gabriela Weiss and to current refugees and migrants around the world. Each film portrays an anonymous female protagonist performed by the artist. Following the eruption of volcano Tambora, Indonesia in 1815, the spreading ash cloud cooled global temperatures by reflecting and scattering sunlight and impacted weather patterns in Europe and in the northeastern United States. Rain, frost and snowfall occurred throughout the summer of 1816, causing agricultural disaster, famine and migration. Scholarly research suggests that severe weather may have inspired works by a number of artists, poets and composers of the time, including Schubert and Turner. The accounts by travelers who were at sea following the Tambora explosion, describe darkness during the day, making it impossible \u201cto see your hand outstretched.\u201d \nTwo hundred years later the world appears to me as if shrouded in a symbolic ash cloud resulting from the global climate change, the collapse of Arab Spring, the current refugee crisis and the gradual and global move towards fascist ideologies. My project Koiman II is meant to evoke this notion of darkness, eruption, explosion, coldness and clouding, and is greatly affected by global conditions\u2014such as displacement, violation and exploitation of bodies of others\u2014which mirror the abuse and gradual disintegration of the natural environment resulting from colonial agendas. - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2017\nWork 2\nThinking of History, 2022Sound compositionDuration (part I): 10 min.Composed by the artistVoice performers: Kurt Gottschalk, Tyler Krszjzaniek, Jeremie Lambert-Delhomme, Sharlene Lee, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Neha Naraya, Nicolas Reeves, and the artistOpera vocalist: Anna WasilewskaPiano: the artistAdditional credits: Mastered by Artist Tapes and Experimental Media Arts, University of Arkansas, special thanks to Adam Hogan\nThinking of History is a new sound work by Monika Weiss commissioned by media scholar and author Ming-Yuen S. Ma and based on a sentence which he artist chose from his book There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract.  Live premiere of Thinking of History took place on April 7, 2022, as part of This is not a reading \/ Ceci n'est pas une lecture, a series of remixes and conversations inspired by sound, in which the author Ming-Yuen S. Ma invites artists discussed in his book.\nThinking of History is a song in three parts. The first scene represents a dark ocean of history evoked by drone sounds, with a single female voice singing wordlessly as if from a great distance. I composed the middle part by recording a number of readers, creating a tempest of voices. Throughout the piece we hear underlying drones based on my piano improvisations but transformed electronically such that the piano is no longer recognizable. In the last part of the composition, the piano enters, now fully identifiable, responding rhythmically to the words and sentences we heard earlier. I finished the composition on February 23, 2022. The day after, on February 24th, I woke up to a world that changed forever. - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022\nWork 3\nOrg\u00e9, 2022Composed and choreographed by the artistVoices: Chamber Choir and selected students and faculty of University of Wisconsin-StoutDuration: 20 min.Additional credits: TBD\nMonika Weiss invites selected students and faculty of the UW to participate as performers\/singers in her new live sound piece, Org\u00e9, devoted to victim of war against Ukraine. Org\u0113 belongs to an ongoing series of vocal, cinematic and choreographed projects by the intermedia artist Monika Weiss which evoke ancient rituals of lamentation and address collective memory and historical trauma. The artist\u2019s minimalist musical composition is built as a choral and sculptural environment to resemble a forest of voices. The performers will stand interspersed throughout the gallery space around and will sustain vocal sounds for the duration of the performance. Spectators will be able to walk through this field of live vocal sound and experience being on the inside of Org\u00e9. \n\u201cOrg\u00e9 is an ancient Greek word which means \u201cwrath\u201d. It comes from the verb orag\u014d meaning, \u201cto teem, to swell\u201d and thus implies not a sudden outburst, but rather a permanent, established, and passionate feeling, solidifying what the beholder considers wrong. Lament in my art appears as a musical and visual form of expression connoting power and resistance. The meaning and beauty of Lament - the various forms of Lament organized as music and choreographed in opposition to the raging and raping violence of war \u2013 are essentially emancipatory. In my work Lament becomes marked by the power of what I call, unforgetting. Org\u00e9 will be sung as a protest but also as an expression of a hope that transformation towards freedom is still possible.\u201d - Monika Weiss, artist statement, 2022\nMonika Weiss' Bio\nOver the past twenty-five years, the prominent New York-based Polish artist Monika Weiss (b. 1964) has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of sound, moving image, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and conceptual motives in Monika Weiss\u2019 work include sonic space, water, the body, slow movement, doubling and gestures of lament, performed and choreographed in response to collective trauma. Her synesthetic art resists closure as it explores states of transformation and oscillates, as Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) noted, \u201cbetween proposal and presence, the allusive and the tangible\u201d. Weiss\u2019 work has been featured in over 90 international solo and group exhibitions. It has been written about in numerous books and publications including The New York Times, ARTnews, and Art in America. Her solo museum exhibitions include Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, New York, and Museum of Memory &amp; Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. In 2021 a new bi-lingual monograph Monika Weiss - Nirbhaya was published by The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oro\u0144sko, with texts including feminist art historian Griselda Pollock, The Met curator Mark McDonald, and the acclaimed Indian American poet Meena Alexander. As part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art series Artists on Artworks, a 30 min. film with Monika Weiss speaking on her work and on the work of Goya, premiered in 2021. Since 2011 the artist divides her time between her New York studio and her professorship at Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Devoted to forgotten victims of everyday gendered violence Weiss\u2019 monument\/antimonument Nirbhaya is planned to open in 2023 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, the Gateway to the United Nations in New York, for several months duration.\nLead image: Monika Weiss, Koiman II (Years Without Summers) (2017). Sound and film. 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