ADA KARCZMARCZYK
Way to Conversion
videos 2009-2014
June 6 - July 18, 2015

Postmasters is pleased to present a group of music videos by Polish artist Ada Karczmarczyk, a romantic dreamer, an ardent Catholic and a pop star.

Ada Karczmarczyk, born in 1985 post-Communist, heavily religious Poland, is a multimedia artist, performer, blogger and singer. In her work she connects three worlds which are often irreconcilable, mutually exclusive, and in perpetual conflict: popculture, spirituality, and art. Since 2012 the artist claims to have undergone a conversion towards spirituality and faith, and she has made it her mission to have Catholic religion updated to current cultural metrics, and to be unafraid of contemporary, unorthodox, semi-blasphemous aesthetics, and modes of delivery. Karczmarczyk sees old methods of distribution of religious tenets and universal values as ineffective, disconnected and boring, and so she aims to promote the mystical spiritual experiences as a positive and valuable alternative to psychedelic drugs.

In ten videos on view, the show charts Karczmarczyk's transformation from secular decadence to spiritual awakening. High Mass is a saturated rainbow-colored version of the church ceremony presented as sped-up "trip" of visions experienced after taking LSD. It is set to a cheerful Gospel arrangement, mixed with computer game sounds. In the triumphant power ballad Children of the Internet, the world comes united across the global networks.

Why the Catholic Church needs contemporary art:
I want to refresh the most important features of philosophy, which can evoke repulsive associations, and art, which thus far represented it, that is, sacred art, avoided a more creative look on the subject, stopping in place. I have decided to bring closer all that seems distant; to liven up all that seems rigid; to disentangle all that seems complex; to make attractive all that seems boring; to bring energy to all that seems insipid; to give sense to all that seems useless; to instill a sense of thinking with modern art and not in isolation from it, while at the same time retaining the light, distanced and abstract qualities of my work, in short - to make cool the things that seems uncool in the Catholic religion, and that make a great tool for changing the world for the better.
- Ada Karczmarczyk

	Ada Karczmarczyk Blog (trailer) 2010 single channel video, color + sound running time 1:33 minutes full version running time: 24:49 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Litany 2008 single channel video, color + sound running time 3:00 minutes full version of Crisis running time: 24:48 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk American Girl (trailer) 2010 single channel video, color + sound running time 3:52 minutes full version running time: 33:29 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Jaraj się Marią 2013 video, color + sound running time 3:46 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Msza Swięta (High Mass) 2013 video, color + sound running time 4:33 minutes watch online
	Ada Karczmarczyk Beat of the Sacred Heart / Bit z Serca Jezusa 2013 single channel video, color + sound running time 4:23 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Smasz Satan's Face With God's Grace / NiszczSzatana ŁaskąPana 2014 single channel video, color + sound running time 3:28 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Walk to the Light and Cut the Crap / Idź do Światła i Nie Pierdol 2014 single channel video, color + sound running time 3:00 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Rule, Embryos / Embriony na Trony 2014 single channel video, color + sound running time 3:26 minutes
	Ada Karczmarczyk Children of the Internet 2014 video, color + sound running time 5:02 minutes watch online