SEVEN
Concept: Jaroslaw Fret and Monika Wachowicz
Execution: Monika Wachowicz
Music: Jakub Karpoluk (kotsuzumi), Jan Skopowski (cello).
On December 15 and 16, at 7 pm, the Center for Performing Arts of the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw will host the premiere of a performance/installation entitled SEVEN.
The performance inaugurates the establishment of the Wachowicz/Fret Studio. The project involves PJAIT lecturerDr. Jakub Karpoluk.
S I E D E M means a complete, brought to an end, to itself only proper stage (era). After its end comes a new one, which is its consequent aftermath. I wonder about my place among the seven generations of women (as long as Life still and invariably comes through an unbroken chain of birth from a woman's body). Am I myself a single body, or do I carry within me past and future generations that remember each other, meet and see each other in my body? In Egyptian, "seven" (sfh) is related to "to forgive - to forget."
S I E D E M's performance is directly inspired by the 1978 short documentary film "Seven Women of Different Ages." Another inspiration is the unique one-page typescript of the film "Staircase" preserved in the director's archives, dating back to 1970, in which the basic idea of "Seven Women...", a future documentary masterpiece, can be found.