JP1 is a collaborative duo formed by Jana Shostak and Piotr Adamski. Together, they create intimate, sound-based performative works centered on proximity and sonic resonance. Their practice unfolds at the intersection of experimental music, performance art, and sound poetry.

JP1 is a collaborative duo formed by Jana Shostak and Piotr Adamski. Together, they create intimate, sound-based performative works centered on proximity and sonic resonance. Their practice unfolds at the intersection of experimental music, performance art, and sound poetry.

The performance A Sigh’s Vapour (a musical love gesture) is composed for bass and two whispered voices, drawing inspiration from the Darwinian theory that love songs were the original form of music — melodic expressions designed to attract a mate. JP1 reimagines this idea by crafting tender, auditory spaces where whispers and bass pulses become acts of deeply personal communication.

Their repertoire includes whispered rap, thermal imaging of love songs, and the collective experience of “listening to time” — all shaped by a spirit of sensual experimentation and embodied sound. JP1 dreams of recording an album and sending it into space, as an interstellar message of love

Date and time: 31 May 2025, 7:00 PM
Location: Krupa Art Foundation, Rynek 27/28, Wrocław
Duration: approx. 45 minutes
Tickets: Buy online or on-site.

Artists: JP1 (Jana Shostak / Piotr Adamski)

Jana Shostak (PL/BY) is a conceptual artist and activist, part of the solidarity group “Partyzanka.” She holds a PhD in art and is recognized by the Belarusian regime as an extremist. Since 2020, she has been leading the Minute of Screaming for Belarus — a protest gesture that has since evolved, through the voices of hundreds of thousands, into Minutes of Screaming for Ukraine, for Palestine, and for the Women’s Strike in Poland.

Described by curator Sebastian Cichocki as “an artist who uses art as a lockpick — breaking into extra-artistic systems such as the Polish language, religious pilgrimage, or beauty pageants,” Shostak’s work blends protest, performance, and media subversion. She is a laureate of the Polityka Passport, the Views Award, and Młode Wilki, and has exhibited internationally, including at Bozar (Brussels), Zachęta, PGS Sopot, and the State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg.

Piotr Adamski is a visual artist, film director, and screenwriter. A graduate of the University of the Arts in Poznań and the Wajda School, he has exhibited both in Poland and abroad. He is a recipient of the Samsung Art Master Award and a three-time grantee of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

His cinematic debut came in 2016 with the short film Otwarcie, featuring Zbigniew Libera — a minimalist piece that fuses video art with classic film dramaturgy. In 2019, he released his first feature film, Eastern, which was quickly hailed as one of the most original Polish productions in recent years. In 2023, he directed the psychological thriller Hidden Network, based on the bestseller by Jakub Szamałek.

We invite you to join us for this singular performative moment — where a whisper might become a song, and a sound might become a message.