RESONANCE/ SERFDOM
2017
hand-cut vinyl with a song arranged and performed by hołubowska, a wooden table, a record player, a splitter, headphones
The sound installation is organized around a song, arranged and performed by Hołubowska. This melody has been present in their family for at least two generations and is about the hardship of working in the field. The very same song was used by the socialist regime propaganda and performed by a folklore band „Mazowsze”. Hołubowska engages with traditional ways of singing and understands this as an analytical practice. Their artistic research seeks to create queer safer spaces through music, where diverse experiences are cherished and privileges challenged. Referring to DIY and punk aesthetics they use this song to conjure ghosts of their female relatives and sing about the serfdom past of their family. This opens up a space for a different kind of understanding/ meeting that can only be sung out.
The installation was developed in the context of the Ph.D. in Practice program collective exhibition ‘Hauntopia/ What If?’ presented at the Research Pavillion in Venice.
credits:
vinyl cut: Beevinyl, recording and mixing: Jacek Szabrański / Latające Studio, table design: Frederik Marroquin