Mixed media performance for Dublin Ghost Club, April 2023
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Live digital visuals for Sinead OK and Cosmic Loaf, Anseo, 9 April 2023
Live visuals for Cosmic Loaf, Plugd Cork and Unit 44 Dublin, October 2022
Live visuals for Alternating Current, Dublin Digital Radio Festival of experimental music, 30-31 October 2021
Phantom Islands by Renata Pekowska and Paul Synnott commissioned for Light Up Dún Laoghaire 15-17 October 2021
Weedscapes commissioned by Dublin City Council for Dublin Culture Night 2020
July 2020: Beauty in poetry stop motion music video
16 May 2020: Box Moon: Irish electronic and experimental sound broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio, The 343 Radio Belfast and Twitch
Featuring visuals by Renata Pekowska for Cosmic Loaf
09 Jan 2020: Story Time: shadow performance for Out Come the Freaks - Lost Lane, Dublin
Out Come the Freaks is a night where the unleashed splash around in a collective madness - be it a performance piece, experimental music, puppetry, character exploration, outsider cinema, madcap theatre and cosmic cabaret.
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Novemeber 2019: music video for Mimoide by Vincent van Ghoul
August 2019: music video for Cruel Sister
Winner of Technical Prize at Firehouse Film Contest 47
21 July 2019: What We Left Behind: Remembering the 1969 Moon Landing; Multimedia event, A4 Sound Dublin
Light and sound performance: 'Requiem for a lunar sprout'. Sound: Paul Synnott, light visuals: Renata Pekowska
In January 2019 a Chinese lunar mission brought to the far ‘dark’ side of the moon an experimental container. The container held a selection of seeds and other microorganisms, and was an attempt to create a micro environment of mutually supporting entities. The seeds within the container sprouted but died shortly afterwards. The short-lived success and ultimate failure of technology is a subject of the performance.
The performance will be planned but for the large part semi-improvised, responding to the theme. It will consist of the combination of the analogue and electronic elements. The audio will combine digitally generated sounds with the live input. The visuals will be produced by two projectors - digital and overhead, and will be reflected, enlarged and bounced onto the walls and other surfaces, thus if possible turning the whole space into the projection screen.
May-June 2019: Light installation for Robert Coleman's composition
How many sides do you see? Dilated Impulses, De Besturing, the Hague; May 2019
Korzo Theatre, Royal Conservatory of the Hague; June 2019
How many sides do you see? is a site specific performance work written for the James Turrell’s Celestial Vault. In this installation version of the work the three instruments are each reduced to a speaker, and the landscape of the Celestial Vault reduced to light from a projector. Composition and design: Robert Coleman. Visuals: Renata Pekowska
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| Image and video credit Robert Coleman |
April 2019: Shadows of things, things of shadows- shadow puppetry experiments
31 March 2019: Cork Sound Fair 2019; Afterglow of creation: sound & light performance by
Rachel Ni Chuinn and Renata Pekowska
This is the point of departure for an improvised collaboration between light and sound. Renata Pekowska works with light and Rachel Ní Chuinn works with sound.
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| image credit: Cork Sound Fair |
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| image credit Cork Sound Fair |
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| image credit Cork Sound Fair |
'In a collaboration with light artist Renata Pekowska, Ní Chuinn’s improvised performance was easily the most satisfying and certainly the most intimate sounding of the weekend. Pekowska’s projections of distorted glimmers of light were centred around a revolving image that resembled a cell under the microscope; Ní Chuinn played low clarinet over the calm static of surface noise while gentle slow-release tones pinged like bubbles of gas reaching the brim. The melancholy waltz between sound and image married beautifully with the warehouse space located along Cork’s docklands.'
Don O'Mahony 'Some people are frightened'
September 2018: Reverie shadow sketch - video field recordings and musical saw
24 September 2017: The Mighty Avon Jnr. track 'Cobra Dear Heart' video shoot at The Complex Dublin
Renata Pekowska - image and video projections
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| Image credit Daragh McCarthy |
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| Image credit Daragh McCarthy |
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| Image credit Daragh McCarthy |
22 September 2017: Carefully Planned Chaos - shadow and light lab, Culture Night 2017, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle,
As part of Culture Night 2017, Butler Gallery presents an interactive installation by light artist Renata Pekowska. Play with light and shadows deep in Kilkenny Castle's Sallyport Cellar. Suitable for all ages, drop in and take part anytime during Butler Gallery Celebrates Culture Night 2017
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| Image credit Butler Gallery |
May 2017: Metamorphosis - shadow sketch by Renata Pekowska
One-person shadow sketch, performed at the Teatro Gioco Vita L'Anima delle Cose
15 May - 2 June 2017: L'Anima delle cose; International shadow theatre workshop, Teatro Gioco Vita, Piacenza, Italy
Theme: Shadows in the visual arts and the visual arts' relation to contemporary shadow theatre.
Shadow puppets by Renata Pekowska
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Performing object and performance by Renata Pekowska
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1st June 2017, Teatro Gioco Vita - Officina delle Ombre, Piacenza, Italy. Final closing performance of the 3-week-long shadow theatre workshop, focusing on relations between shadow theatre forms and shadow in visual arts. Renata Pekowska - puppet design, performance, light design and technical support.
Participation in the project supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
February 2017: Cube Development Residency and Mare Tenebrosum, Project Arts Centre
Cube Development Week Residency in Project Arts Centre in Dublin 13-17 February 2017
Renata Pekowska and Rachel Ni Chuinn's collaboration focusing on developing a shadow-play performance in parallel with improvised electronic/live clarinet sound. A sound and light installation, the project proposed to conduct a series of experimentations in breaking away from the idea of the fixed screen and using space, light and the body-object.
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| Image credit Project Arts Centre |
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| Image credit Conor O'Toole |
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| Image credit Conor O'Toole |
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| Image credit Rachel Ni Chuinn |
17 February 2017: Mare Tenebrosum: A sound and light performance by Rachel Ni Chuinn and Renata Pekowska about the dark sea and the pre-cinema forms of magic lantern and phantasmagoria.
Developed with support from Project Arts Centre as part of the Cube Development Week.
27 November 2016: Dublin Gamelan Weekend shadow performance
The Back Loft, 26-27 November 2016
Renata Pekowska - Indonesian Wayang Kulit-inspired light and shadow performance
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| Image credit Holly Pereira |
Video credit National Concert Hall Gamelan Orchestra
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| Image credit National Concert Hall Gamelan Orchestra |
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| Image credit Tadgh Kelleher |
15 October 2016: Kirkos Ensemble present Fluxfest, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Renata Pekowska - interactive light installation and light interventions
Kirkos present Fluxfest, examining its legacy, and unleashing a new tide of Irish Fluxus disciples. Fluxfest is in the anti-art spirit of the originals, continuing the Kirkos tradition of exploring territory others do not dare to tread, creating an evening that will provoke deep thought about modern art and turn your concert expectations on their head. Fluxfest is a Happening… and more.
Pieces will be performed simultaneously, repeatedly, in an undecided order, and on all four levels of the extraordinary space in Temple Bar Gallery. We will blur the boundaries between music & other art forms and between art & normal life, multiple art forms will intersect: music, performance art, visual art, video and work defying categorisation.
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| Image credit Kirkos Ensemble |
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| Image credit Daryl Feehely |
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| Image credit Daryl Feehely |
02 October 2016: Mean Time - improvised sound performance, Richmond Barracks Dublin
Renata Pekowska - light design and performance
Mean Time was an improvised performance broadcast live by Radio Nova, a live audience sound performance curated by Rachel Ni Chuinn with 10 invited female composers responding to each other's pieces commissioned for the project. Richmod Barracks, 02 October 2016 @7.30
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| Image credit Rachel Ni Chuinn |
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| Image credit www.richmondbarracks.ie |
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| Image credit Conor O'Toole |
Image credit Daryl Feehely
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| Image credit Michael O'Kane |
Mean Time Improvisation - video credit Rachel Ni Chuinn
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| Image credit Michael O'Kane |
3 September 2016: National Concert Hall Gamelan Orchestra - Electric Picnic
Renata Pekowska: shadow puppet design and performance
Electric Picnic 2016 - Sat 03 Sep NCH Gamelan Orchestra will perform a 2-hour set of traditional Javanese music accompanied by live visuals
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| Image credit www.electricpicinic.ie |
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| Image credit Andy Butler |
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| Image credit Andy Butler |
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| Image credit Andy Butler |
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| Image credit National Concert Hall Gamelan Orchestra |
2016: Mare Tenebrosum (The Sea of Darkness) light and sound video sketch
April 2016: Willie Taylor - shadow video presented at the Firehouse Film Contest
Video and voice: Renata Pekowska
January 2014: Tannhauser Gate MA Graduate installation and performance.
Vacant retail space, Thomas St, Dublin
Tannhauser Gate
Bright speckles in the sky became silver rings; the horizon was waving as if
moved by the wind. The moon started expanding and getting brighter, sharp shadows
appeared doubling every shape. Then the bright shiny waves returned: ivy,
cucumber, green bottles, and sea water. The lines and snakes of green were like
gliding dragons, flames and smoke. They grew and turned the skies into an
iridescent deep lake of light.
January 2013: Aurora - light, water and sound video recording
There is a powerful sense of focus and presence that emerges
from low light conditions.
We notice, realise and
become fully aware of the physical limits of our visual perception, but also of
the limits of our ability to record our experiences. Darkness sharpens
our awareness, which becomes more acute: it is like ‘being in a forest when
things go suddenly quiet’
as
someone once said about their experience of Robert Irwin’s installation.
A state of higher visual awareness and receptiveness, of ‘paying
attention
to the world’ is achieved by reducing the physical and visual to almost
nothing; a powerful metaphor for creating states not often addressed
by our culture at large, for being more aware of and valuing experiences
over
materiality.
January 2013: The Hook Lighthouse - video
The beam of light seems to come from an alien spaceship, circling
around, but it also appears strangely like a natural phenomenon, an integral part
of the place. It lights up telephone posts in a sequence, then sweeps across
the large flat grassland, and appears near and far away, revealing surfaces and
shapes of the cliffs, then travels across the open water.
2012-2013: A Script for a Spatial Game of Thought; photographic documentation of temporary light installations and experiments.
A form of a drawing in space – not as an adaptation of an optical illusion but as a discovery of a virtual diagram, a potential existence.
2012: Dark Luna Park; photographic documentation of a light installation.
Familiar objects can be used with an aim to subvert their expected associations and create a de-familiarised, alien, unhomely presence.
Darkness and deep shadows dim the sharpness of vision, making depth and distance ambiguous and inviting unconscious, peripheral vision and tactile fantasies.