FLOW STATE PORTAL

A synesthetic concept by artist Paul Sakoilsky

In the shadow of post-Brexit tensions and tightening restrictions on artistic practice, British artist and writer, Paul Sakoilsky presents Flow State Portal, a bold and defiant exploration in creativity and immediacy. At its core lies a pursuit of the “flow state,” a psychological phenomenon where self-consciousness dissolves, and action unfolds with seamless precision.

The process and the exertion of the will is here as important as the petit-bourgeois concepts of ‘success’ or ‘failure’. For Paul Sakoilsky, this is not merely a concept but a call to arms—a testament to the will to create with whatever means are at hand, at any moment, despite the constraints of the times. 

Paul Sakoilsky (Born U.K. 1964) was brought up in South East Asia and East Anglia, UK. He moved to London in 1982. His earlier background was in literature, philosophy/crit. theory, performance and curation. He studied philosophy & critical theory at the Uni. of N. London. During the 90’s, as “one of the instigators of Shoreditch’s edgier earlier art and music scene” he curated at 30 Underwood St Gallery (1994-2002). He has written extensively on the artist and participated in many of the large-scale Orgies Mysteries Theatre by master artist Hermann Nitsch.

Gio Montez & Paul Sakoilsky; scribbles by Hermann Nitsch

Taking on the guise of Kunst Clown, Sakoilsky’s anarcho-philosopher alter ego, the artist performs as a shaman-priest, leading the audience in a messy, carnivalesque ritual to unlock the Flow State Portal.

The exhibition unfolds as a multidisciplinary synthesis, a blending of paint, performance, digital media, poetry, and philosophy into a visceral, participatory and evolving experience. Central works will include new Kunst Clown Overpaintings, a series of reimagined works, and a centrepiece painting-installation created live on opening night. 

This celebratory act—part agnostic benediction, part cathartic spectacle—transforms the act of art-making into a communal gesture of rebellion and renewal. It is a chaotic yet cohesive response to fractured times, where the creative process becomes both a resistance to and a reconciliation with the present moment. Flow State Portal affirms the enduring power of art as a force of resilience, connection, and celebration, inviting audiences to step into the unknown possibilities of the New Year/2025.

aperitivo 
Mixed media on bruschetta

main course 
Flesh on grill

ritual meal
Lentils and cotechino

dessert
Panettone, Torrone, Pandoro

drink
open wine & prosecco

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THE FLOW STATE PORTAL – new year ritual

20,00 €

That I am still alive is a miracle

To know that life intensifies at its edges

Digging into death, ugliness and decay

Expresses nothing less than my unbroken desire to live

An art that articulates itself as others write manifestos

The risk of unleashing the will to power

The audacity of intensity

He does not stand beside his work, it permeates him as it permeates the space he enters, dividing opinions with charismatic energy.

No one has an unbiased opinion of Paul Sakoilsky.

Persistent painterly subversions of everyday events bite the British consciousness that flows in neutral waters

The absurd is the last adequate way to respond to this world

Rituals merge with performance and poetry, which are not afraid of the big questions, but laughingly run away from them again and again

Painting as the blood of life, vitalized and screaming in pain

The return of the clown, cake and paint dripping, sometimes blood in rough quantities, liquid that does not want to be a tear, a laughing Zarathustra descending from the peaks of despair

To be free is to tremble over an abyss

Art as the first possibility to start dancing there

Whose questions rise through a dark, traumatic reality of life into a space of the sublime; they are not separate from art, but can only be formulated through it Art is not an occupation that makes life more beautiful

It is what makes life beautiful

And gives it the possibility of radical beauty