Promo Battle! -Kinga representing Poland-

Kinga polish visual artist makes live video performance, short films and installations. for her live visuals performances she constructs extended narratives entirely from gaudy colored self-shot footage that features herself as the only actress. She hosts and curates a show on polish TV dedicated to music related visuals. she also works as a curator for the astigmatic electronic music festival in poland.
Worked in fashoin making videos for louis vuitton, designer bernhard willhelm and amsterdam fashion week. exhibited her work in gallery W139, P.A.K.T. amsterdam/holland, centraal museum utrecht/holland, territories electronique 2005 at the fundation vasarelli, aix en provance/france, kill the vj party, bataclan,paris/france, center for contemporary art ujazdowski castel, warsaw/poland, club transmediale, berlin/germany, prism festival, mount fuji/japan
http://dalbin.com/en/artist.php?id=102
http://mamastudio.pl/kingababy/









What is your name?

Kingababy

Which country do you wish to represent?

POLAND

What did you have in mind when creating your T-1 T-shirt design?

I usually do some drawings in photoshop, that everybody is always laughing about, like photoshop is the last program u should use for drawings, but I always skeach like this. I like the pixels quality to it and that it is very simple and that there is not many possibilities to choose from.So I started to brainstorm for the t-shirt idea in this way and I kept going making a lot of drawings and finally chose one.The selection of the rest of the drawings you can see in the short animation I made out of them that is attached with the design data.(within a few days) The idea of the design is to promote a cult figure of the famous polish composer fryderyk chopin whose concept of art was imbued with specific national features and free of foreigner influence.
Being the world citizen and spending all his life on emigration his music was always inspired and stayed very close to he tradition of polish folk art in the present times of constant merging of the cultures and disappearance of national identities we need examples like this more than ever.

Join the chopin fanclub!

What sort of places or situations will best fit your T-shirt design, do you think?

For your flight to rio de janeiro with the jumbo jet, for your date with the most sexy girl/boy in town, for the dinner with the ambassadour, for the concert of mettalica, for the trip to katmandu, for the international conference on the lost values of old times, for cooking the christmans dinner (as underwear, of course becouse it is winter), for when u give an interview on tv, for the visit to eiffel tower and louis vuitton megastore in paris, for getting drunk with your best friend, for one of those days when u do not know what to wearÉand for your trip to poland couse everybody gonna love u there!

Has your final T-shirt design turned out the same as you initially imagined it would?
First idea was to design a t-shirt which is grey, dark and sad, couse in poland everyone wears grey, dark colors. At the end it turned very different: bright and happy. Perhaps it reflectxs the change of my moods while designing it.

When you were designing your T-1 T-shirt, how did the process compare with your normal work?
There was a big difference in the medium, and in the working process, As a video artist I usually do not work for assignments but create my own autonomous work. This time there was a particular subject that I had to reflect on and than respond to. So it was more conceptual than usually.

Please give your T-shirt a name.
Chopin funclub

Please give us a a message to all the people who visit the website, to spark their interest in your T-shirt.
With a smile!

If there is any music that would best fit your T-shirt design, please let us know.

Gazebo: "I like Chopin"

Is there any strikingly memorable or impressive T-shirt that you remember?

Light blue t-shirt and his blue eyes.

What is your favorite food?

As being vegetarian I am not so fond of the polish cousine that is full of MEAT!....my favourite dish is the banana spicy soup from thailand, it brings the exotic, sunny, exciting taste and smell to my life in europe

Are there any countries that you'd like to travel, if you had the chance and time?

Tierra del fuego , which means Òthe land of fireÓ, I just love the name of this very bottom of south america

Are there any people, things, happenings, that have especially influenced you?

Polish folk art, visit to the jungle, E2E4 record by manuel gotsching, plastic bags, sponge bob, home made videos from the wedding ceremonies, religious paintings, the life and adventures of saint kinga, a song "Leaving This Planet" by Charles Earland, guevara

What do you want most? Anything?
A world without
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Is there anything that you recommend us to check out? Any items, events, etc?

PAY A VISIT TO THE BOTANICAL GARDEN NEAR YOU!
Watch the new music dvd from gonzales "piano lessons"
Check out the art of honey suckle company www.kunsthallebasel.ch
Check the best magazine on new photography "capricious" http://www.becapricious.com
(U can buy it at the mori museum store)
Listen to the new record of mocky .http://www.mockyrecordings.com
Watch the bombastic labland dvd of visual music from pfadfinderei and modeselektor. http://www.pfadfinderei.com
Check the visual music label http://www.dalbin.com
The beautiful art of lia at the http://www.tinylittleelements.org

Who would make you most pleased if they were to wear your T-shirt?

YOU

If you have any news or information about your recent or upcoming activities, please let us know.

I' ve just had a live visuals show with the live concert of manuel gotsching in japan, at the mount fuji, on the annoyo prism festival, and we will show the same program on the polish film festival era nowe horyzonty, there will be a dvd with the audio/video material coming out soon.
On the 25th of may I have a vj show in the polish center for contemporary art ujazdowski castel in warsaw, poland, as a part of "pink not dead" project by maurycy gomulicki.