Selected performance art projects in video documentation
Forged Eden
'I set off on a ten-day, 420-kilometre journey on foot, lugging my portable forest, a cart full of exotic potted plants. I explored roads, cycling and forest trails from Helsinki to Vaasa.
I intend to start my journey in Helsinki on 15 August at 2.20 pm at the GAP ART SUMMIT art conference at Luckan Helsingfors.
On 24 August, I arrived at the OFFSIDE #2 Performance Art Festival at the Vaasa City Art Gallery, which kindly supported the project.
Most of the time I walked alone, but a few people I met along the way allowed me to keep my faith in humanity.
It was an artificial paradise, but who can afford a real one?'
Tomasz Szrama, Finland 2024
Hugs
Six-hour action by Tomasz Szram at the Entropia Gallery in Wrocław on May 14, 2022.
The performance was part of my solo art exhibition "Postcards send on the move"
The video was recorded and edited by Mariusz Jodko.
A Few Minor Space-Times
Celebration of 40 years of the international Performance Art Archive BLACK KIT/ DIE SCHWARZE LADE with one month of experimental work in Cologne, Germany 2021
Performance during the first visiting artists group on 10.10.2021
With support from the Finnish Cultural Foundation SKR (artist grant 2021)
Camera: Constantin Leonhard & Liane Ditzer
Editing: Evamaria Schaller
2021 © BLACK KIT
Interview and excerpts from performance at
RAVY Biennale in Cameroon
A modest interview and excerpts from performance "Above and Under the Chair" during the 10th RAVY Biennale curated by Serge Olivier Fokoua in Yaounde, Cameroon 2018
With support from Frame Contemporary Art Finland (travel grant)
Interview, camera and editing: Video: Yvon Ngassam
Walk
The Performance consists of several difficult steps with the help of spectators. Performed at New Performance Turku curated by Leena Kela, Finland 2017
With support from the Kone Foundation (artist grant 2017)
Video: Christopher Hewitt
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Sad Heaven Hell Sinking
Performance at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Acción!MAD Festival curated by Nieves Correa. Madrid, Spain 2015
With support from Frame Contemporary Art Finland (travel grant)
Camera: Yolanda Pérez Herreras
Black Knight
Performance recorded during Streetlevel Festival - Performance Art in Public Space curated by Roi Vaara, Katri Kainulainen in Helsinki, Finland 2015
Camera and editing by Maximilian Latva
Suicide Attempt Doomed To Failure
Performance filmed during CREATurE Live Art festival Daina Pupkevičiūtė & Vaida Tamoševičiūtė in Kaunas, Lithuania 2014
Camera: Akvilė Matulaitytė and Lukas Motiejūnas
Editing: Lukas Motiejūnas
Introduced Species
Performance recorded during Mother's Tongue festival curated by Willem Wilhelmus in Universum Theatre, Helsinki 2014
Cameras: Issa Tuoma, Marcio Carvalho and Frida Stenbäck
Editing: Tomasz Szrama
Blind Date
Performance filmed during Live action Gothenburg curated by Jonas Stampe, Sweden 2013
Untitled (On the Inclined Plane)
Performance filmed at Viva!Art Action, Montreal 2013
Video recorded by John Boyle Singfield
Ode to Joy
Performance recorded and edited in camera by Erkki Pirtola during the 2nd Là-Bas Live Action Biennale curated by Irma Optimisti, Helsinki, Finland 2012
Three Nails
Performance during GUANGZHOU LIVE 3 Festival curated by Jonas Stampe in Guangzhou, China 2012
Three Hundred Times A Fallen Angel
Performance for camera recorded at home, office and various public spaces in Helsinki, Finland 2009
Video by Tomasz Szrama.
Camera: Tomasz Szrama, Maria Kuusniemi-Szrama
Total Solar Eclipse
"I naively believe, that anyone anywhere can create a phenomenon on a cosmic scale"
Outdoor performance by Tomasz Szrama in Helsinki, Finland 2006
Video by Tomasz Szrama.
Camera by Maria Szrama and Jari-Petri Mattila.
Sound created during the live show by Jaap Klevering and Hepa Halme.
Even Worse Taste of Now
Stop motion video documentation of four day long participatory performance at EXIT Festival curated by Roi Vaara in Helsinki, Finland 2001
Thanks to Marek Pluciennik for the camera and Marcus Lerviks for editing assistance.