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Sacrum Profanum 2023

My Body, My Capital

2017-10-20

The Sacrum Profanum Festival has always sought new ways of presenting contemporary music.This year we saw another innovation on the global scale: an audiovisual performance based on videos of concerts held during the event.Piotr Peszat’s “My Body, My Capital" is an artistic commentary on Sacrum Profanum.

One of the important themes explored by Sacrum Profanum in 2017 was the overstimulated, intensive, multimedia trend in contemporary art known as postinternet.Kraków was visited by Jennifer Walshe, one of the main proponents of the movement.But Sacrum Profanum isn’t just about presenting contemporary music during concerts or in publications such as the book “Everything Is Important” accompanying the festival.It’s also about commissions, and this year we saw a total of twelve. They include one we have not revealed until now: Piotr Peszat’s audiovisual artistic commentary or a postinternet review of the festival – a hard to categorise work we commissioned and one we are delighted to share with you now!

“Almost all festivals commission new works from composers, thus supporting their work and playing an important role in shaping culture.Many also document the course of the festival, producing various reports of the events.Sacrum Profanum is likely the first festival to have combined the ideas and involved one of the participating artists in the task.We were delighted to entrust the mission to Piotr Peszat, Cracovian composer, multimedia artist and member of Spółdzielnia Muzyczna – an ensemble imperative to the festival. His presence was essential during this year’s event in which everything was important,”says Krzysztof Pietraszewski, curator of Sacrum Profanum.

Composer’s note:

“I am only surrounded by beautiful people.Beautiful bodies have become more valuable than artworks.Bodies are art,and what an art!JLo has insured her buttocks for three hundred million dollars.My body is my only capital.Rihanna’s legs are worth a million dollars.Just a million?.”

Piotr Peszat