Pawel Dziemian, born 1983/Poland, lives & works in London/UK. 078255684583 Royal London Buildings, SE15 1RX London paul.vs.paul@gmail.com

Education:2004 - 2009 Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland• MFA degree on Multimedia Communication Department, Intermedia Faculty 2002 - 2004 Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland• BA studies on Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Department – Printmaking 2002 - 2003 Adam Mickiewicz's University, Poznan, Poland• Studies on History Department - History of Arts Faculty

Exhibitions & Screenings:2013'Map of he World' VHS Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands'Map of he World' The Video Community, The 01 Shows, Poland2012'Hunger' Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic 'Map of he World' Nova Gallery, Minsk, BelarusStudio Litost vol.2 Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech RepublicStudio Litost vol.1 Karlin Studios, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic2010'Mistresses & Heroines’, 'Sculpture' 'Protogeneza' Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland2009’Ecce Homo' MFA Exhibition, Starter Gallery, Poznan, Poland’Atavisms I’ Galleria Grazia Neri, Epson Art Photo Award, Milano, Italy'F’...lucky day' 'Night Shots' Platform Art Center, Vaasa, Finland'Stronghold of Hate' 5th Art Master, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland2008'Atavisms II' 'Fresh & Polish’ Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest, Hungary'We do it with pride' 'Great Poland', Mediations Biennale, Arsenal, Poznan, Poland'XII Labors of Hercules' Biennale of Young Artists, polish representation, BJCEM 2008, Bari, Italy'Atavisms I' 'Digital Romantic - Neue Landschaften', Epson Kunstbetrieb Dusseldorf, Germany'Atavisms I' Epson Art Photo Award 2007/08 Show, ArtCologne, Koln, Germany'Gray Matter’ prof. Miroslaw Balka’s Studio, ON Gallery Poznan, Poland2007 'Timeless Project’ - Four4!Factorial Group Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia'It was my performance' 'Negentropia', Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland'Labour No.5' 'All saitnt's day.com' Artist’s Colony - Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, PolandManual Creative Commons - Four4!Factorial Group Kronika, Bytom, Poland'Labours of Hercules' 'Nothing to Wonder at?’ Katerinska Garden/Psychiatric Clinic, Prague, Czech Republic'XII Labours Of Hercules' 4th Art Master, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland'According to Diogenes' prof. Miroslaw Balka’s Studio, Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland'XII Labours of Hercules’ 'Nostalgia for the Present' Aula Gallery, Poznan, Poland'This is a liberal performance' 'Bios' performance Festival, Brzezno, Poland'Timeless 2.0' - Four4!Factorial Group Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany'Oikoumen' ROG Socialni Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia'Timeless Lite' - Four4!Factorial Group 'Histerie und Neurosis' Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany'Human sweat' 'Hygiene' - prof. Miroslaw Balka’s students exhibition, Inner Space, Poznan, Poland2006'Video_animals' Menza Pri Koritu, Ljubljana, Slovenia'Timeless 2.0' - Four4!Factorial Group Dritte Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany'Timeless Project' Diesel New Art Exhibition, Betonsalon, Vienna, Austria'Recycling' prof. Miroslaw Balka’s students exhibition, Piekarnia Studio, Poznan, Poland'Timeless Project - Four4!Factorial Group' Dartington Gallery, Devon, UK'LekiNaRaka' prof. Miroslaw Balka’s students exhibition, Piekarnia Studio, Poznan, Poland2005'Forever yang' Aula Gallery, Poznan, Poland

Experiences & Achievements 01-04/2012 - Artists in Residence / Visegrad Fund Futura, Prague, Czech Republic07/2009 - Polish finalist Henkel International Art Award02-07/2009 - Scholarship Marmara Univeritesi, Istanbul, Turkey12/2008 - Contest’s final exhibition 5th Samsung Artmaster Young Polish Art Contest04/2008 - Best Artist Prize Epson Art Photo Award 2007-200804/2007 - Honourable Mention in the contest 4th Samsung Artmaster Young Polish Art Contest2006-2007 -6th Artists in Context Programme, residency in Art Center Sredisce,Slovenia Pepinieres Europeenesse Pour Jeunes Artistes2004-2007 - Activity in Four4!Factorial Group Poznan/Berlin/London2004-2007 - involvement in visual culture internet magazine Tempo http://www.tempomgz.com

I was born in Poland in 1983, in 2009 I graduate form Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Studies onMultimedia Communication Department. Degree in field of Implementation of Television Picture, Video and Photography.Diploma completed in Faculty of Intermedia. Thesis titled 'Constallations of masculinity. New masculine sensitivity' wasfocused on problematics of 'crisis of male-hood'(sic), gender in polish context and more universally its aspect in my practice– figure of father, role models, symbolic violence; and introduced my own term of constallation – which, on contrary totraditional meaning of installation, incorporates non-material aspects of work, builds web of contexts in its own very specifictensions. Constallation is multi-element installation where not all elements are material, physically existing. Constallationtends to evokes notion of narration within its components; as I believe that anecdote is more vital that image. During lastresidency in 2012 in Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic, I was working within lens medias,sculpture and installation on issues of slavonic soul described by self-pity, mysticism and urges. What significant in my bodyof work is critical approach, which I call Criticism 2.0 to distinguish it from well established artistic strategy of 'YPA'. Thattakes my practice to examine critical ideas on my self, my own body, on Me as a social construct. As I wrote in my artist statement: art as participation, art is act.

More works at:http://www.behance.net/dziemianhttps://vimeo.com/dziemianhttp://cargocollective.com/dziemian/About-Dziemian

LÍTOST Studies. Piano classes with Milan Kundera / 2012 / video / 120'https://vimeo.com/42991898

As a devotee of Milan Kundera's literature I had an opportunity to research on, experience of and get inspired by hisvery special optics, in Prague, in Czech culture, in place where context of many of his books is based on. I found it verytempting to sharpen the razor of post-modern deconstruction on this particular Slavic translocation of senses; in historicalperspective - classic, modern though, to renegotiate the meanings by translation to the nearest but stranger. On AIR inFutura I devoted to one main project that claimed to be realized in Czech Republic, because of particular need of workingwith and on Czech-Polish transition, need of three unities taking from local context.

Project under working title 'Litost studies. Piano classes with Milan Kundera' inspired by Kundera's literatureliterature I tried to combine and confront few aspects of czech-polish (slavic background) language and its post-modern styledeconstruction, translated to visual (video) language.

To keep things clear and easy – my aim was to create a video work/short movie based on Kundera's litostexplanation. The episode that works as a script for video and it's performance is story of a boy, whose parents love him toattend piano lessons, what leads untalented child to death, after the piano teacher thrown him through the window. Inhighlights: I took piano lessons, footage was recorded, tension was building up. And we got to the point where we cananalyse Slavic soul, its complexity, and structure, christian blame and wild emotionalism. A bit of performance, a bit of realityshow or rather reality sitcom.

Getting back to details; basis for this performative research is The Book Of Laughter & Forgetting and term of litost– 'it is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog.

As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imaginehow anyone can understand the human soul without it.' Czech term of litost - specific and unique for Czech language, in myunderstanding it's similar on pronouncement level to polish term ' litość' [li'toshich'], but the difference is crucial - Czech litostmeans to have a mercy for yourself, while exaggerating the pain or own misery, to feel pity to yourself in my simplestinterpretation, in polish it means just 'marcy'. in body of this work i attended a piano classes with Czech teacher; regardlesslack of the musical skills and ear for music; recorded and documented the process in video medium and built a dramaticstructure out of gathered footage.

“ What then is litost? Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.

One of the customary remedies for misery is love. Because someone loved absolutely cannot be miserable. All his faults are redeemed by love’s magical gaze, under which even inept swimming, with the head held high above the surface, can become charming.

Love’s absolute is actually a desire for absolute identity: the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost.

Anyone with wide experience of the common imperfection of mankind is relatively sheltered from the shocks of litost. For him, the sight of his own misery is ordinary and uninteresting. Litost, therefore, is characteristic of the age of inexperience. It is one of the ornaments of youth.

Litost works like a two-stroke engine. Torment is followed by the desire for revenge. The goal of revenge is to make one’s partner look as miserable as oneself. The man cannot swim, but the slapped woman cries. It makes them feel equal and keeps their love going.

Since revenge can never equal its true motive, it must put forward false reasons. Litost is, therefore, always accompanied by a pathetic hypocrisy. “

Artist statement

art as participation. art is act.my aim is to examine condition of human structures; but referring to criticaltheories, i would like to make a step forward, by applying political criticism intoreal life and art process. the only moral and truly critical, human way of doingthat is not to replicate the power abuse acts, not to use people as a subjects, notto oppress as systems do. therefor i choose to examine myself as a human, as aparticipant of structures like society, family, culture or market.let's use example: there are art activities or art pieces, that in order to achieveits own critical aims, they victimize groups or individuals which are alreadyoppressed; (obviously it may still be an interesting discourse of power, powerdistribution, it may be art as a functional tool in social science, or it may questionwho the artist is, and what's his duty - it brings reminiscence of marxismtheories of labor, and historically based question: why there was an affair of artand power in the historical background and why art should rather affirm thegood, and why all those relations seem be suspected), i would like to avoid thisshadow, that's why my aim is to find a new way of criticism, and so one of mystrategies is to test critical theories on myself, because that way it devoids themof aforementioned ethical relativism or ambiguity, there is no question of harm,victimizing, further more, and maybe it's even more important; trough thoseprocesses i find myself as a participant, a member of greater wholeness,human entirety; that's my goal; and in a way it brings into the surface fact that,not observation is important, rather participation - art as active attempt toshape reality. with no special tools, with no abusive strategies, just by simpleacts.in my approach i'm far from total-art concept, but i strongly believe in thosebottom-up and horizontal movements.what's is also crucial for me, is not to be tied to form, and its fineness. not toloose the possibility of creation because of lack of 'materials', not to be addictedto objects, material objects. regardless all art's transformation processes aftermodernism, it makes me doubt, when i see those 'fragile' things. maybe it'snaive utopia, but i rather would like to pursuit fragile ideas. where it takes me? I don't know, but i hope to experience, more as a human, less as a producer of cultural, or virtual goods.

Dogman's Dream / 2012 / video / 9'50”https://vimeo.com/47688107

Dogman video series consists of works taking from aspects of zoo-morphisms in modern society. The series focuses on notion of urban clashing with natural, emotional with instinctive. Dogman aims to be epic video seriesabout the other, alien, rejected, useless, abandoned and feared. Dogman's Dream stands for individualism and protection ofentity, is defensive, stands against fn de siecle. Represented by keywords: post-colonialism, babylon, london, post-colonialtheory, politics,criticism,giraffe, baby giraffe syndrome, safari, Peckham, urinate, urine, piss, peeing, leaking, walk of shame,wasted, morning glory, monster. Chunk of master shot, 9:50 min. long walk, with peeing itself giraffe, on Peckham Rye Lane,London. Work in progress.

Map of the World / 2012 / video / 35'30”https://vimeo.com/42506382

Main idea of video is to turn Polish quasi-idiom 'to spit image of the map of the world' live. It starts with question ofhuman body, its vital liquids, it's physiological functions and symbolic aspects. Saliva contains in itself particular dichotomyconnected evidently with body. Saliva is purifying, life-giving in certain way, it's crucial part of kiss, early disinfectant, foodwelcoming committee. As long as saliva is within the organism, within mouth. As soon saliva leaves mouth, departs fromtongue and lips, becomes dirty, disgusting, filthy. Contrary to the tear – always pure, always clean, always chaste. Saliva outof mouth gets whole new gist. New meaning is so powerful that allows to communicate complex of negativity with onesimple gesture of spit.

I envisioned to showcase dichotomy as well in the concept of world as a physical environment and world as ahuman concept; anthropocentric idea of harmony within supremacy. Video work also emphasis the critical approachtowards political correctness, status quo of power distribution, and dusted synonyms of world order like peace dove.

Formally, video is master-shot, it's real-time drawing performance. 35 minutes 30 second of spitting.

Coating and Enclosure / 2012 / sculpture / site specific / size variablehttp://www.behance.net/gallery/Coating-Enclosure/4107733

Studio 'Litost' VOL.1 / 2012 / exhibition viewhttp://www.behance.net/gallery/ STUDIO-LITOST-VOL1 /3398547

[…]From beginning of January until end of March 2012, FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art in Prague is hosting Pawel Dziemian (PL, 1983) in the frame of A.I.R. FUTURA : artists in residency program with the support of the International Visegrad Fund.

Pawel Dziemian stands for a critical approach in art, however he is not placing himself above the others as some distant manipulating judge, but rather uses his own skin for the examination of the cultures he approaches. Whether his position is obvious, as when he place himself in front of a camera or when this self-examination is more subtle as when he presents observations or comments, what remains is, even more then this step out of subject-object division, a certain humility and non-judgment towards others.