FLOW STATE

A synesthetic concept by artist Paul Sakoilsky

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

18:00
welcome

19:00
welcome by Gio Montez 
critical introduction by Marcella Magaletti 
artworks by Paul Sakoilsky

19:30 
Dinner

20:00
Performance: KUNST the clown

22:00
Performance: the Flow State 

00:00 
new year ritual 

First dish 
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second dish
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jelly fish 
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dessert
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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