Liliana Bloch Gallery presents 52-42-N-23-52-E-p2, an immersive, two-channel video installation by Bogdan Perzyński. Created in 2008, the 38-minute, 59-second work brings together moving image, color, sound, acoustic sensing, and programming. The installation responds to the physical presence of the viewer, allowing sound, image, technology, and the gallery’s architecture to shift in relation to the audience.
The work developed from Perzyński’s research project, Rethinking the Significance of Pure Ecological Form, an inquiry into the aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural ways we understand the natural world. The project centered on the Białowieża Forest, a primeval ecosystem spanning the border of Poland and Belarus. Home to ancient woodland, wetlands, fungi, and rare animal species, the forest offers a glimpse of the landscape that might once have extended across Europe before centuries of human intervention.
Perzyński spent two months conducting field research in Białowieża, filming and recording sound throughout the forest before completing the editing and post-production independently in his Austin studio. The resulting installation combines elements of documentary observation with abstraction and responsive technology, extending the recorded landscape into a physical and interactive experience.
Throughout his career, Perzyński has explored the relationships among video, interactive code, computer vision, performance, social intervention, and architectural space. His work considers how art can move between disciplines while balancing intellectual inquiry with direct sensory experience.
Perzyński is a Professor and founder of the Transmedia Area at the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Art and Art History, one of the earliest interdisciplinary arts programs established within a university context in the United States. He studied law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and architecture and fine arts at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań, where he earned his graduate degree in Painting and Drawing in 1979. His work has been presented internationally throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and the United States.
