JAKUB GLIŃSKI
Painter, performer, experimental musician Jakub Gliński started his career as a experimental music producer oscillating around genre of noise under the name of JESUS IS A NOISE COMMANDER. Since the very beginning Gliński was focused on the performative aspects of his projects, avoiding long-plays and album formats. He performed in Poland as well as abroad in countries such as Great Britain, Ireland, Holland and Czech Republic. Visuals played an integral part of his performances – mainly in the form of his outfits which conveyed trashy aesthetics – such as the as the rabbit costume – remade and developed by adding different forms of waste and spoilage. His music performances are impressively engaging for the public, giving a certain amount of control back to the crowd to shape its final form. Since 2013 Gliński’s sonic and performative work has started to merge with paiting elements. Similary as with his music shows, the artist always emphasized the gesture and non finished artifact, very often destroying his paitings in the gallery spaces the seconds after the show was over. The aesthetics of the neglected public space full of devastated elements of the urban infrastructure and awkward graffiti harmonise in Gliński’s paintings together with his personal experiences. Usually they are merged with the element of uncontrolled expression under the influence of various drugs experiments as well as different techniques and elements learned by Gliński when he used to work as a construction worker and 3D prints specialist. Industrial elements of Gliński’s work are far from subtle and minimal compositions of the likes of Anthony Caro, accenting the precariat and balancing on the edge of decay, always emphasized by his tools, such as montage foam or broken mattress stellars. The foundation of his work is based on the confrontation of apparently contrary strategies and aesthetics, emerging from the surrealistic automatism and abstract expressionism to classic minimalism, all filtered by the reality of growing up in post soviet and late capitalistic realities.
Gliński is also a creator of projects: Jakub Gliński & PURGIST, KURT, Too Empty To Poo, BOOM FOR GABBA, Cocaine Is Everything, Igenn New, Space Monkeys.
I WILL COME BACK HOME IN URN
(Performance series)
Is a project that the artist describes as „heavy performance”. These intense, physical and exhausting performances last a couple of minutes. They are non-scripted, based on spontaneous and aggressive interactions with the the objects laying around the artist, which also become a part of the artist costume. To fully enter the state of amok, pull all the breaks and loose control over himself, Jakub uses the proven traditional method, reaching the likes of Witkacy and Althamer by performing under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The outcome of this can result in him being hurt so much that he often ends up in the hospital. His performances take place all over the Poland and abroad in the weirdest institutional backgrounds – from classic gallery spaces to punk festivals, museums on ships and nudist beaches. A very similar and spontaneous character could be seen at the beginning of the performances series. Invited to be a part of the Iamesh Ephemeral Art Meeting in Kraków, the artist came to the event with no specific concept. Almost until the very last moment before his show Gliński was walking around the area of Księgarnia/Wystawa gallery where the performaces took place, finding and collecting random objects from the area’s gateways and trash from which he then created new constructions. Gliński himself, just as when performing as JESUS IS A NOISE COMMANDER, suits up in his trash costume, fusing the boundaries between his own body and collected objects just so he could, euphemistically saying, interact with them, or to put it simply – violently destroy them. It was the same during his next performance in Berlin when he spent half of his day finding and collecting garbage near Kreuzberg area. Over the time Gliński started to limit the amount of these findings so he could focus on his more intense movement. Whilst adorning his trashy attire himself, not setting any real boundry between stage and audience, Jakub is releasing double load of aggression pointed to the external and internal at the same time. Wallowing on the ground and floating through the garbage also alludes to sexual connotations which parallel to „Exploitation Film” or „Trash Humpers” – a full-length Harmony Korine production. By giving these found objects a second life, Gliński is far away from the popular consideration of their context in speculative realism, however there is no doubt that by melting with them in his compulsive performative actions he is giving them a certain subjectivity. He stays hanging somewhere between Kantor’s „reality of the lower class”, the Machine of Love and Death and mentioned before „Trash Humpers”. A place between the specific romanticism, nihilism and lumpenprecariat damage. Independently from placing the series in the historical and artistic context, it is the emotional, very private and even auto therapeutic character and aspect that is most important here.
JAKUB GLIŃSKI & PURGIST
It’s a spectacular show that provides viewers with a strong audiovisual experience. It combines two opposing fields of art – painting and music. Jakub Gliński – the painter – creates a painting that is connected to contact microphones which collect vibrations from each movement that he makes on the canvas. The vibrations are then „processed” by PURGIST – the experimental musician – which he uses to create industrial and noise musical landscapes.
PORTFOLIO
English version
Polish version
Upcoming
2018 Spektakl PIXO at Komuna/Warszawa // Warszawa (performance)
2018 xxx at Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2018 Niezdolność odróżnienia przeszłości, teraźniejszości i przyszłości at lokal_30 Gallery // Warszawa (solo)
2018 Przekonanie o gniciu własnych organów i rozpadzie organizmu at Galeria Biała // Lublin (solo exhibition)
2018 Instytut Festival at Garnizon Modlin // Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki (group exhibtion)
Past
2018 Fala dźwięku #50 (WIDT & Jakub Gliński) at Powidoki/MSN // Warszawa (performance)
2018 Metagra at Śmierć Człowieka // Warszawa (collabo exhibition)
2018 Perpetuum Mobile at Serce // Kraków (group exhibition)
2017 Nadmiar at Hevre // Kraków (performance)
2017 Spektakl PIXO at Komuna/Warszawa // Warszawa (performance)
2017 Koledzy z klasy at 9/10 Gallery // Poznań (group exhibition)
2017 Nienawidzę wszystkich at Arman Galstyan Gallery // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2017 Iamesh Ephemeral Art Meeting Vol 2 at Meet Factory // Praga, CZ (performance)
2017 Borderline Noise Festival at Atelier Wolimierz // Wolimierz (performance)
2017 Borderline Gallery at Atelier Wolimierz // Wolimierz (group exhibition)
2017 Wystawa autorska at Spółdzielnia Krzak // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2017 FLOW (finisaż „Syreny herbem twym zwodniczym”) at plaża nudystów w Wawrze (performance)
2017 PD /AR RAVE at ZetPeTe // Kraków (performance)
2017 Motława Flow vol. 2 at Stocznia Gdańska // Gdańsk (performance)
2017 Girlhood Tea Time at Lokal_30 // Warszawa
2017 Dziewczyństwo at Scena Robocza // Poznań (group exhibition)
2017 FLOW / The Return of the Catfish at Księgarnia/Wystawa Gallery // Kraków (group exhibition)
2017 Limbo at OiP // Gdynia (live painting)
2017 Zacieralia X Festiwal at Progresja // Warszawa (live painting w/NRK)
2016 Stracone pieniądze ministra. Galeria Kubeł ft. Gliński at Różnia Gallery // Warszawa (solo exhibition)
2016 Make Some Noise Festival // Warszawa (performance)
2016 DADA tak? tak! at Biała Gallery // Lublin (group exhibition)
2016 XI Aukcja Charytatywna „Ziarno Sztuki – Ogród Nadziei” at Muzeum Narodowe // Warszawa (aukcja)
2016 Bałagan w pokoju at Różnia Gallery // Warszawa (solo exhibition)
2016 Toxicity at Oficyna Gallery // Poznań (group exhibition)
2016 Up To Date Festival // Białystok (performance)
2016 Bel Etage 2016-2018 at Heimatland // Berlin, DE (performance)
2016 TRASH NOISE Express at Przychodnia Skłot // Warszawa (performance)
2016 WIZUALNE SPA at Blue Tower // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2016 HATI HATI HAT at Miejsce Projektów Zachęty // Warszawa (auction)
2016 HATI HATI HAT at Kersan Art Studio // Yogyakarta, Indonesia (group exhibition)
2016 HARSH ART FESTIVAL at Atelier Wolimierz (performance, solo exhibition)
2016 SOCIAL DESIGN FOR SOCIAL LIVING at National Gallery //Jakarta, Indonesia (group exhibition)
2016 IAMESH EPHEMERAL ART MEETING at Księgarnia/Wystawa Gallery // Kraków (performance)
2016 HATI HATI HAT at Księgarnia/Wystawa Gallery // Kraków (group exhibition)
2016 STILL LIVE at Layup Gallery // Gdańsk (group exhibition)
2016 PROCES // Białystok (solo exhibition on projectors)
2016 WYCHODZISZ TY CZY JA? at Spectra Art Space // Warszawa (solo exhibition)
2015 UP TO DATE FESTIVAL //Białystok (solo exhibition)
2015 FINISAŻ at Poligon Art Space // Warszawa (special solo exhibition and perfomance)
2015 ZABŁOCIE (..) at Zalubowski Gallery // Kraków (group exhibition, live painting)
2015 at Cueb Gallery // London, UK (group exhibition)
2015 at MÓZG Powszechny // Warszawa (live painting, group exhibition)
2015 at Wolno Gallery // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2015 at MÓZG Powszechny // Warszawa (solo eshibition)
2015 PROCES_2 at Teatr Powszechny // Warszawa (solo exhibition)
2014 at MÓZG Gallery // Bydgoszcz (solo exhibition)
2014 [SZT.UL,-] at MiTo Gallery // Warszawa (group exhibition)
2014 22. Audio Art Festival at Bunkier Sztuki // Kraków (live painting)
2014 ERROR\TRASH at Tubaza Gallery // Gdynia (solo exhibition, live painting)
2014 I urodziny Wolnych Torów at Wolne Tory TSA // Bytom (live painting)
2014 TRASH/ERROR at V9 Gallery // Warszawa (solo exhibition, live painting)
2014 Original Source Up To Date Festival // Białystok (live painting)
2014 Make Some Noise #2 at Przychodnia // Warszawa (live painting)
2014 Wschód Kultury – Plac Fest // Rzeszów (live painting, group exhibition)
2013 Original Source Up To Date Festival // Białystok (solo exhibition)
2011 Paralyzing Device 3 at OCCII // Amsterdam, NL (performance)
2010 Hard Party & Pokora at squat // London, UK (performance)
2010 Energy Bubble!!*** at Butcher’s Corner // London, UK (performance)
2010 Some Action at Foundry squat // London, UK (performance)
2010 Rave Against The Machine at squat // London, UK (performance)
2010 Hlukova Mysteria 3 at KVN // OSTRAVA, CZ (performance)
2010 Punk gig at x // Frydek-Mistek, CZ (performance)
2010 Carcass Festival at Secret Location // Northern Ireland (performance)
2009 at BWA Awangarda // Wrocław (performance)
2009 Hlukova Mysteria 2 at Fiducia // Ostrava, CZ (performance)
2009 Laboratorium / Podwodny Wrocław Festival // Wrocław (performance)
2009 INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE at CRK // Wrocław (performance)
2008 Punx Picnic Festival// Northern Ireland (performance)
2007 TSBM&M at Cross Club // Prague, CZ (performance)