Video made at home
Selected performances for the video camera recorded in my apartments or nearby.
Gravity
How powerful is gravity of a marginal artist’s ego who is simply working on a human scale in low resolution, cropped by a webcam?
This seemingly insignificant force could be highly destructive when joining forces with the planet.
Video performance by Tomasz Szrama for P.E.P.A. Madrid online event (2nd take)
Performance by Tomasz Szrama & Marek Pluciennik
Helsinki 2020 (during the year of support by Arts Promotion Centre Finland TAIKE).
Make Yourself at Home
Performed and recorded by Tomasz Szrama at home in summer/fall 2019
(during the year of support by Arts Promotion Centre Finland TAIKE).
Chat 聊
Meeting people and increasing their involvement became my goal even more important than the great need to be understood.
Performance featured by Ma Yongjin 马永进 recorded near my residency in Tibetan Plateau, China 青藏高原 中国 2018.
Video by Gao Youan 高元 and Zhang Kai 章凯
Produced by Xining Contemporary 出品 西宁当代.
Big thanks to assistant Le Le 乐乐 as well as Chun jian 纯碱 Jia Yu 贾煜
Supported by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Arts Promotion Centre Finland (TAIKE)
Artist Talk for Two Cameras
Performed and recorded at home by Tomasz Szrama for the "One Minute With A Ball Gag" project commissioned and distributed by ICE HOLE - Online Live Art Journal, Issue 8. Product of Reality Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, 2018.
(alternative editing/full performance)
3' 3" older
Performed and recorded by Tomasz Szrama from 8–8.03 am at the HIAP office
Camera and coffee:Heidi Kilpeläinen. Helsinki, 2015
Minotaur
Performed and recorded at home by Tomasz Szrama for the "One minute with a BANANA" project commissioned and distributed by ICE HOLE - Online Live Art Journal, Issue 1, Helsinki 2014
icehole.fi.
Give me the Light
Performed by Tomasz Szrama and Liina Kuittinen.
Video by Tomasz Szrama
Helsinki 2012
Snow White
Performed and recorded by Tomasz Szrama outside of my apartment in Helsinki 2009.
Aerostatic
Performance recorded at home in Helsinki in 2007.
Performance and video Tomasz Szrama
2nd camera and hair dryer Maria Kuusniemi Szrama
Background music "Whisper Tree" by Keramick & Lobo
Cultural Pages
Performance by Tomasz Szrama in collaboration with Maria-Kuusniemi Szrama and the dog Boruta Ovidius. Performed in the apartment and nearby in Helsinki, Finland 2007.
Video Tomasz Szrama
Camera Maria Kuusniemi and Tomasz Szrama
Music Fryderyk Chopin Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 played by Daniel Barenboim