Gosia Wlodarczak, a performance artist known for her unique situational drawing installations, performed for three days at the 2022 Sydney Contemporary art fair.
During her drawing performances, Wlodarczak often invites audience participation, encouraging viewers to interact with her and even contribute to the artwork. This interactive element adds an extra layer of depth to the experience, making each performance a unique and collaborative creation. For Sydney Contemporary, Wlodarczak invited audience members to act as subject for and object within her installation.
For more than 30 years, Wlodarczak has eschewed the typical approach of occupying a solitary studio in favour of working at-large, where visual and social stimuli abound. From the delicate placement of thousands of lines, Wlodarczak builds a complex visual archive in direct and urgent response to people and place. Over time, new marks begin to intersect and overlap those that were placed earlier. This is all part of the dance - image laid upon image in a frenzied race against time. And then, once the pre-determined duration is reached, it’s pens down. The performance artist takes a bow, relinquishing control of the finally laid mark to the moving hands of the clock.