FIGMENTATION by Figmentation Art Collective and SlowART, London, 2012Multimedia art collaboration performance created by Kasia was inspirited by improvisation and connection. It involved live music, sound and lighting effect and choreography. The piece was set to appear from different, often unexpected corners of the gallery space making the audience feel they are surrounded by the sounds and happenings, that they are in the middle of the performance and further that they are part of it. The show was thought to be very organic and change depending on the public response. It was deeply based on the connection and understanding between the all the artist involved.www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftoQN6zIjms&feature=youtu.be www.vimeo.com/52392325

Katarzyna Kaszowska T 07879404722 E kasia.kaszowska@yahoo.co.uk A 2, 146 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HWphotography by Anoushka and Tomasz Brajter

TEATIME WONDER GAME Figmentation Art Collective and SlowART London, 2012A table sits alone surrounded by empty chairs. The table is dressed for the occasion, lacy white tablecloths, delicate teacups, proud teapots and flickering candlelight. But the tablecloths are stained, cold dregs of tea float in the teacups and the flowers are withered and dried. It looks like the party has finished but its only just beginning...Experience a taste of the surreal in a performance that draws upon an eclectic and bizarre mix of sourced material: slices of Alice in Wonderland, a splash of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a lump or two of Dali’s surrealism, a pinch of Peter Pan - all brewed together with a teaspoonful or two of Monty Pythons’ Circus. Be immersed in a dreamland and a secret tea party, play a game with unexpected rules or even, as it may sometimes seem, no rules at all!The audience is invited to join the bizarre and surrealistic tea party and sit around a table set out with a traditional white tablecloth and a cornucopia of crockery and table vessels in all kinds of styles, forms and shapes, with half burned out candles, tired flowers and attractive but worn and chipped tea pots and table ware.Volunteers are taken from the crowd and seated around the table, becoming live ‘game pieces’, the table is the ‘game board’, and the game ‘stations’ are plates and cups, which contain different messages and tasks. The hidden messages discovered by the players trigger various ‘happenings’ and the entertaining elements of the performance. These could be: an explosion of a confetti, the appearance of a mysterious creature behind a curtain, a live music performance - or a song, a dance or someone stepping on the table and bursting into a raucous folk song in an obscure language.There will also be challenging tasks: like - for example - testing specialities from the witty Crone’s pantry, following an obscure tiny, scribbled treasure map to uncover a buried pearl, or being asked to give a brief performance such as (for example) standing up and shouting out ‘the three best things about yourself ’.So, if you sit in front of the tea cup inscribed “drink me’ - do it! risk it! And at the bottom of the cup perhaps, you may find a secret message which may in turn trigger a melee of incidents.As different tasks are completed the participants of the game move around the table visiting the ‘game stations’ obtaining points as they go If the participants refuse a task or fail to fulfil it and lose all their points they forfeit the game thus freeing up their place for someone else to join in. The aim of the Teatime Wonder Game is to eradicate all the participants until one remains, they will win the Secret Treasure.The performance aims to detach the audience and participants from the rush of their everyday lives, leave worries about the future and regrets of the past behind and be in the here and now – and experience their surroundings with all their senses. We want to help people; slow down, re-connect to their inner thoughts, unconstrain themselves. The performance art becomes the healing tool, helps to reset the mind, it is a detox session for overheated modern brains.More information on http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871617608/teatime-wonder-game and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lCux3FO5dQ

Katarzyna Kaszowska T 07879404722 E kasia.kaszowska@yahoo.co.uk A 2, 146 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HWphotography by Anoushka

UNFINISHED DREAM by LIFT, London 2012The show commissioned by Institute of Contemporary Art as part of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), a poetic storytelling and inventive promenade performance, revelled the hidden, moving stories of refugees and local residents in one of London’s most contrasting boroughs; all within the concrete confines of a Croydon car park. Kasia created an episode performance which was a crucial part of the show. She based it on Edward Stachura song and accompanied by live music she ‘gave hope’ through out the floors of unruly concrete car park. It sometimes took form of song or a dance or at some cases a personalised message whispered to audience member ear.www.player.vimeo.com/video/50053634

Katarzyna Kaszowska T 07879404722 E kasia.kaszowska@yahoo.co.uk A 2, 146 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HWphotography by Dominic Geis