OTZIR GODOT (Drums & Percussion)

Drum-artist Otzir Godot (b.1968) dives to the improvising worlds of sounds,rhytms and words. The narration of the his lyrical-orchestration drumwork is a far reaching project to the problematics of esthetics sublim: to the semantics, feelings and visions beyond the words. Godot works with solo projects and in different duo-and trio nvironments.

Godot has received classical education in percussion. However his main aim is to expand the creative possibilities of the drum set. Improvising has always been the key word to Godot's world. The path has gone from classical music trough various rock bands, world music and jazz towards to free areas of expression. Together with drums, marimba, gongs and ethnic percussion he provides lyrical landscapes of sounds, rhytms and words. In recent years Godot has been in close co-operation with modern dance professionals and theatre work.

 

Tomasz Szrama (Poland/ Helsinki, Finland),
video artist  and performer.      

Art Studies:

1998     Master of Arts, Art Academy of Wrocław, Poland.

Art works:

1996     Installation/performance: Home space, Wrocław  (Old Market square), Poland.
1997     Installation/performance: Home space 2., gallery ASP, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Installation/performance: Home space 3., television, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Group Test It, gallery ASP, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Group Test It, gallery Szalona Masarnia, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Group Test It: Drink a toast with your idol, installation/happening, Warsow,

             Poland.
1997     Group Test It, Stair way, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Group Test It: Drink a toast with your idol, happening gallery ASP, Wrocław,

             Poland.
1997     Installation/happening: Pam Andersson in the soap water, Fortalicje -festival,              Zamość, Poland.
1998     Scholary thesis of master of arts: Mark and symbol in the massmedia. Including              films: 1. animation: unnamed, 2. animation: Flowers are also God´s creatures,

             3. animation: I like my job,.... WFF, Wrocław, Poland.
2001     Installation/happening: Even Worse Taste of Now, festival EXIT, Helsinki.
2002     Installation/happening: Coexistence, gallery Jangva, Helsinki.
2002     Installation: Lighting, Gallery Muu, Helsinki.
2002     Installation: Even Worse Taste of Now 2. gallery Platform, Vaasa.
2003     Installation/happening: Man Among Candy Wrappings, Putki-festival, Fiskars.
2004     Installation: Fade in - Invert - Fade Out, 24 Doors, Fiskars.
2005     Happening/Installation: Merry-go-round, Forum Box, Helsinki.
2006     Art videos: 1. Face a Face, 2. Interface of Nature and Town,      3. Total

             Solar Eclipse

             Cultural centre Vuotalo, Helsinki.
2006     Art video: 1. Influences, 2. You Have to Please the People.       Umo Jazz

             Club, Helsinki.

2006     Performance and art video: Total Solar Eclipse. Nyrjähdys, Taidepanimo, Lahti.
2006     Performance and art video: Total Solar Eclipse. Fluxee, Turku.
2007     Art videos: 1. Fade in – Invert – Fade out, 2. Merry-go-round, 3. Solar

             Eclipse, 4. Face a Face. Cultural centre Malmitalo, Helsinki.

2007     Art videos: 1. Solar Eclipse, 2. Face a Face. Perf07, Pori.
2007     Art video: Face a Face. Kinos, Lahti.
2007     Art video: Unnamed. Hypercenter. Cabel Factory, Helsinki.
2007     Performance: Alibi. Art at lunch time. Cultural centre Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Video installation: Virtual Transcendence. Sitra square, Helsinki.
2007     Photography exhibition: Digital Transcendence. Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Art video: Let There Be Light. Percussion: Otzir Godot. Night of Art,

             Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Art video: A Meaningless Sacrifice of a Meaningless Man. Together with: Jone

             Takamäki, Jaap Klevering and Otzir Godot. Electroevening, Kanneltalo,Helsinki.
2007     Photography exhibition: Reflection on reflection. Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Art video: Let There Be Light. Percussion: Otzir Godot. Gallery 3h+k, Pori.
2007     Live video happening: Take It All With Dignity. Percussion: Otzir Godot, sound:

             Jaap Klevering. Taidepanimo, Lahti.
2007     Art video: A Meaningless Sacrifice of a Meaningless Man. Together with: Jone

             Takamäki, Jaap Klevering and Otzir Godot. Art Contact, Helsinki.
2008     Installation and video: The View From My Window. Gallery in Kanneltalo,

             Helsinki.

 

Co-operation and exhibitions:

1996     Exhibition ASP-Ossolineum,Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Exhibition of the depatement of art graphic, ASP, Wrocław, Poland.
1997     Exhibition MOK, Jelenia Góra, Poland.
1998     Exhibition of R.Kowalik´s workshop, City Hall, Środa Śląska, Poland.
2002     Installation: Lighting, La Bás, gallery Forum Box, Helsinki.
2005     Installation: Merry-go-round, Biennal of photography, Poznań, Poland.
2006     Art video and poster: Letters from wonderland. Savoy-theater, Helsinki.
2006     Video documentation: Paimenten piiritanssi. Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Multimedia live installation: Not All. Together with: Jaap Klevering and Anski

             Terävä. Dance Decentralization Zone. Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki.
2007     Video installation: Natural - Unnatural. Together with Akashapushpa.

             Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
2007     Video installation: Natural - Unnatural. Together with Akashapushpa, Joensuu.
2008     Installation and video: The View From My Window. Vuotalo.

Other art work:

2005-2007         Art Contact - monthly event of live art. Member of the organisator

                          team, Cabel Factory, Helsinki.
2005-2007         Video documentation of modern art, dance, performance and

                          happenings.