5 channel surround sound installation. The sound installation Clatter, a joint project with Ola Bilińska and Mateusz Śmigasiewicz, is the first performance of the Special Prayer for the Present Times drawn up by the rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto. Rendered in Yiddish by a female voice, it serves as a kind of bridge, a transgression similar to that effected by those visiting the building of Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw where the exhibition was held. At the same time, its linguistic inaccessibility is a marker of the distinct character of this part of Warsaw, its cultural echo. The melody itself is contrasted with a rhythmic noise, the clatter of the artist’s footsteps as she symbolically pilgrimages to the top of the blue tower – skyscraper build in 70s at empty spot remaining after the Great Synagogue, which was blown up by Germans in 1943.

Patyk I Modlitwa, Clatter

Anna Orlowska