Temporary Nation

Worldwide mobile performance

We! The temporary nation.

Piotr Wyrzykowski’s and Echo Ho’s project Temporary Nation is a platform for organizing group and individual performative sessions. The work draws on active participation of its audience who become its co-creators through the use of an app designed for the purposes of this performance. Once the app has been installed, particpants’ smartphones turn into light- and sound-emitting audiovisual gadgets that can be operated by their users through particular gestures or choreographies. A joint performance of un unpredictable symphony turns a group of strangers into a temporary community.

Project creators: Piotr Wyrzykowski, Echo Ho

Concept: Piotr Wyrzykowski

Gesture strategies & musical composition: Echo Ho

Producer, curator: Katarzyna Boratyn

Choreography: Michael Maurissens

Vocals: Lopsang Gelek, Bettina Wenzel, Patricia Kuellgis, Echo Ho

Recorded and mixed at KlangBureau.de by Joker Nies

Mastered by Marcus Zilz

Programing: KrzemDev

Thanks: Natalia Cichowska (IAM) Aleksandra Księżopolska, Lilla Schally-Kacprzak, Mona Rena Górska (CCA Łaźnia)

Temporary Nation is part of “+100” project which has been conceived by Roderick Coover, produced and co-curated by Katarzyna Boratyn under the institutional direction of Anna Szylar at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The project is part of the international cultural program POLSKA 100 coordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, implemented as part of the NIEPODLEGŁA Program for many years 2017-2022. It was financed from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Multi-annual Program INDEPENDENT 2017-2022.