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Jeremi Biziuk aka kitarumo
My name is Jeremi Biziuk (he/him, they/them). I’ve been born in Poland, and since roughly 2017 have been living in the Netherlands.
Within my practice, I devote myself to reinventing and synthetically crafting a personal tradition, a ritual, which is inspired by the most fundamental elements of pagan practices from Eastern Europe, and translates them through tools and a point of view which is fundamentally mine.
For that purpose I indulge myself in capturing and generating sounds and shimmers found in nature and my immediate environment, later modulating them into soundscapes of noise and a complex sonic experience. While performing, I cover myself in suits made of synthetic fur and include video projections of heavily edited documentation taken during various field recording trips. What’s presented is a textured, oftentimes heavy soundscape, which I create and conduct throughout the performance.
I find great interest in what would nowadays be called pagan in my country of origin, Poland. Coming from a slavic country, I could always feel the pressure of the conversation regarding “tradition” in the mainstream discourse. However, I simultaneously felt a strong disconnect between the conservative (to be precise, strongly catholic) idea of “tradition”, and my personal knowledge and thoughts. However, there is much difficulty in finding any kind of records, details or factual information in regards to polish paganism, as the former slavic beliefs have been actively erased by the ongoing christianisation in the early mediaeval ages. Furthermore, it seems like my home country is significantly lacking in documentation of those pre-christian traditions, especially in comparison to our neighbours and other cultures in that region. This has left me, since a long time ago, with a feeling of missing an important piece to my heritage and culture, even when I still lived in Poland. When a person cannot find a connection with what the contemporary notion of a tradition is, and seemingly its history proves to be lacking in keeping a record of what came before, this void becomes something which I must reinvent for myself.
Founding and active member of the artists' collective:
in the Mountain
Found on various music platforms as:
kitarumo