Chopin Residue – Lathe-Cut Session ILive Act / PerformanceApril 2025
The process of cutting records—later transformed into threads and materials for the artworks—is performed live at Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków. The artist isolates themselves within the gallery space, working with a vinyl cutting machine to cut records in real time. The entire process is open to the audience and simultaneously recorded and documented on video.
The thread produced as waste during the lathe-cut vinyl process is created from nine vinyl records per track, resulting in a total of 81 records for the nine tracks. This thread is, in essence, the negative of the vinyl groove. If the record contains the sound, the thread embodies the unsound—or antisound—a residual trace left behind in the act of recording.
The thread will be used to create nine large-format artworks in the cycle Chopin Residue: Nonaptych.
Artist: Mariusz Szypura
Title: Chopin Residue – Lathe Cut Session I
Curators: Mat Schulz and Gosia Płysa
Audio: Mariusz Szypura
Production: Sound And Vision Art Fundation
Cooperation: Unsound Festival
Place: Bunkier Sztuki / Kraków