• Live Performance - 02890246775 Live public performance, Belfast, 2022 This performance was an opportunity for Dyczkowska to breathe new life into a forgotten phonebox, which had become a symbol of desolation amidst the city's once-vibrant landmarks. With great care, Dyczkowska painstakingly removed the remnants of discarded needles and drug paraphernalia. This act of cleansing was a powerful statement, highlighting the significance that these landmarks once held and the potential for revival and transformation that lay within them. Following this transformative act, Dyczkowska repurposed the phonebox to receive phone calls from both friends and the audience, adding an interactive element to the performance. Once again it became a symbol of connection and communication, bridging the gap between the past and the present. Since then RSUA (Royal Society of Ulster Architects) repurposed the phonebox as a Design Box.

    02890246775

    Live public performance, Belfast, 2022

    This performance was an opportunity for Dyczkowska to breathe new life into a forgotten phonebox, which had become a symbol of desolation amidst the city's once-vibrant landmarks. With great care, Dyczkowska painstakingly removed the remnants of discarded needles and drug paraphernalia. This act of cleansing was a powerful statement, highlighting the significance that these landmarks once held and the potential for revival and transformation that lay within them.

    Following this transformative act, Dyczkowska repurposed the phonebox to receive phone calls from both friends and the audience, adding an interactive element to the performance. Once again it became a symbol of connection and communication, bridging the gap between the past and the present.

    Since then RSUA (Royal Society of Ulster Architects) repurposed the phonebox as a Design Box.

  • Live Performance - Performance at MART Gallery, Dublin 2018 Divestment/ Letters Live performance, reading, and shredding of personal letters dated back to 1993. Part of "Tomorrow Still Blind Advances Slowly" Exhibition. “Anthropologists observed that to be released from the captivity that is the death of a close relative, the living must offer a sacrifice, one that has the most irresistible power” (Kudász, 2014, p.169)29

    Performance at MART Gallery, Dublin 2018
    Divestment/ Letters

    Live performance, reading, and shredding of personal letters dated back to 1993.
    Part of "Tomorrow Still Blind Advances Slowly" Exhibition.

    “Anthropologists observed that to be released from the captivity that is the death of a close relative, the living must offer a sacrifice, one that has the most irresistible power” (Kudász, 2014, p.169)29

  • Live Performance - Live Performance at Ulster University, BIFPA 2018 Divestment/ Mother's Jumper - Broken Promise, Unravelling of an old jumper, knitted by Dyczkowska's late mother and learning to knit again with the help of YouTube tutorials. Extract from “Retrospection by virtue of objects in selected works of Mairead McClean and Gábor Arion Kudász” by Marta Dyczkowska, 2018 Miller (2009) states that in the face of loss, we create a pattern of accumulation, sorting, and divestment and that through these processes we can take time to come to terms with the loss itself, he also explains that in a lack of divestment, these objects might become problematic. As Hallam and Hockney (2001) highlight, material possessions can become "excessive: fitting nowhere, difficult to place " (Hallam and Hockney, 2001, p.122). These objects usually have no use in our daily routines and it's hard to control them, accumulation is a temporary measure. It's when these objects are scattered and never placed within tolerable memory they become problematic. When "unexpectedly finding an old garment at the back of a wardrobe yields an upsetting reminder that the person who once wore it has gone forever" (Hallam and Hockey 2001, p.105.)

    Live Performance at Ulster University, BIFPA 2018
    Divestment/ Mother's Jumper - Broken Promise, Unravelling of an old jumper, knitted by Dyczkowska's late mother and learning to knit again with the help of YouTube tutorials.

    Extract from “Retrospection by virtue of objects in selected works of Mairead McClean and Gábor Arion Kudász” by Marta Dyczkowska, 2018

    Miller (2009) states that in the face of loss, we create a pattern of accumulation, sorting, and divestment and that through these processes we can take time to come to terms with the loss itself, he also explains that in a lack of divestment, these objects might become problematic. As Hallam and Hockney (2001) highlight, material possessions can become "excessive: fitting nowhere, difficult to place " (Hallam and Hockney, 2001, p.122). These objects usually have no use in our daily routines and it's hard to control them, accumulation is a temporary measure. It's when these objects are scattered and never placed within tolerable memory they become problematic. When "unexpectedly finding an old garment at the back of a wardrobe yields an upsetting reminder that the person who once wore it has gone forever" (Hallam and Hockey 2001, p.105.)

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