Sword Swallowing Show, Aerial Performance, Quad Stunt, Djs, Pole Battle, Exhibitions, Banana-ink, Contests For Audience, Graffiti Jam… we did all of it! Eager to find out what we gonna do this time?
#streetwearnomads’ next tour stop will be in Krakow! For quite some time hashtag streetwearnomads it’s not only a social media tag, which in was created by Zulu Kuki in 2016. It’s primarily a creative space and community, deeply rooted in street culture. The most important goal was always to express yourself and your vision. At the moment, it’s already 28k photos marked with this tag in social media and most importantly – a growing, creative community that, thanks to vernissages and exhibitions, once in a while moves from online to real spaces.
This time we join our forces with Zulu Kuki to create a space for a next exhibition of photographs taken by city nomads. This time, its theme will be “diversity / originality”.
Big thanks to PUMA and Jameson Irish Whiskey for supporting the event.
DJ: SONYA
Media partner newonce.net!
Poster by: EWA MOS illustrations
As part of the #STREETWEARNOMADS photo exhibition you can expect an interactive GAMING ZONE prepared by PUMA. You’ll have a chance the play on the legendary SEGA console systems, while listening to live music by Sonya, as well as have a chance to win various PUMA shoe models from SneakerStudio, including the newest RS-0.
We’ll also present a live customization by two artist illustrators – the already known to you EwaMos and Paulina Cieślewska, who specializes in giving sneakers a unique character.
Mateusz Kanu Tattoo will present what traditional Japanese tattoo really is. Accompanied by his models he will create one of the kind “living art gallery of Japanese tattoo”, show and explain the meaning on the main symbols. You can’t miss it!
Kahaki Bikes
Kahaki is a Krakow based crew that is customizing bicycles for almost ten years now. They produce their own frames and parts, create handmade bicycles, and are eager to take any bicycle challenge that no one else would take. If you are bored with standard, schematics bikes, you would like to give your old bike a glow, or build something for your own from scratch, Kahaki are definitely the crew you should hit up!
www.kahaki.pl
www.facebook.com/KahakiBikes/
Meet and greet
During this year’s edition you’ll have chance to meet 3 gorgeous models: Mia Dolls, Monami Frost and Polly Ellens. Don’t missit! Get to know them, chat a bit, take a sellfie and get a signed photo. Also, Mia will perform on our main stage on Saturday and Sunday so don’t be prepared for having a blast!
Mia Dolls: www.instagram.com/miadolls/
Monami Frost: www.instagram.com/monamifrost/
TATTOOFEST. 25 Polish Female Tattoo Artists
25 talented female artists, 25 different styles of tattooing, 25 unique photoshoots – „TATTOOFEST. 25 Polish Female Tattoo Artists” – it’s the album, that is not only the one-of-a-kind project in Poland, but is fairly unique on a European scale. It supposed to be the apotheosis of the gentle sex succeeding in this once male-dominated industry. Creation of the album, somewhere in the background, was motivated by the “girls power” slogan, which very generally corresponds with the atmosphere of what we wanted to convey. On 160 pages we intended to introduce the works of each of the invited girls, but also to present opinions on subjects related to their work, the industry and femininity. The premiere of the album will take place on 2.06.2018 on the 13th edition of the Tattoofest Festival in Krakow.
Pre-orders can be placed here.
Graffiti Jam
As every year, we’ve planned a few dozen square meters for a graffiti jam. You will be able to see in action few writers invited by us, for whom we have dedicated the main wall. In addition, traditionally, a few smaller walls will be created, where everyone will be able to leave a mark. All those willing to join the painting are invited to the outdoor area!
Pilgrim Motorcycles
Gypsy and the Acid Queen is a stage name of Kuba Jaworski, songwriter from Cracow. Contrary to what the name suggests, we will not find any queen in the band. There is only a mysterious Gypsy. Using the technique of looping guitars, electronic instruments and vocals, he creates the sound of the whole band, introducing the listeners into a hypnotic trance.
3Kings is a band who promotes a new style of playing music like drum n bass, house, and disco on acoustic instruments with some electronic. The group was formed in 2015 in Cracow at the initiative of Jakub Tybulczuk. The band is composed of: Sławomir Pezda – Tenor sax, Jakub Tybulczuk – Baritone sax, Maximilian Olszewski – drums. The formation mostly performs original compositions which takes inspiration from modern club music, jazz with improvisational elements, resulting in pieces that are not always the same. The music of 3Kings arouses great interest among a wide range of listeners thanks to the unconventional juxtaposition of instruments and large expression.
3Kings is only band in Poland, and one of the few in Europe which performs music of this kind in such a novel formation.
Identity mark – the practice of face tattooing in the Far East – an open lecture by Tobiasz Targosz
„Facial tattooing refers to the practice of tattooing permanent marks on the face. Recently, tattooing itself has gone from being counterculture to being popular trend in mainstream culture.
However, it seems unlikely that face tattoos could go mainstream. In western culture, they are still associated with a certain drug-addled nihilism and antisocial behavior. We need to be aware of the fact that face tattoos haven’t always held the same weight in every culture. During my fieldwork that I conducted among Chin and Derung people in Myanmar and China, I discovered that facial tattoos have been a powerful symbol of social status and had also a religious significance.
The custom of tattooing faces of young girls used to be widespread rite of passage and a source of pride between those people. It is important to say that girl wasn’t marriageable until her face was marked, and being tattooed meant she had learned the essential women’s skills. What is also worth emphasizing, tattooing was mainly a women’s art.
In my presentation, I would like to take a closer look at the practice of facial tattooing in Asia.”
Magical tattoos Sak Yan – and open lecture by Reusi Bhalacandra
Sak Yan are the traditional magical tattoos of Thailand which recently have become very popular in the West. Nowadays many people seek for Sak Yan to be protected or attract good luck. The power of Sak Yan comes from the teachings of the Buddha but also from pre-Buddhist practices. To empower these tattoos, practitioners must be initiated and trained by a competent teacher. Being a practitioner of Reusi tradition, Bhalacandra will present genuine information about Sak Yan and related topics during this talk.
The conference will be in English (translated simultaneously to Polish).
About Reusi Bhalacandra:
After having practiced Buddhism for several years, Bhalacandra was initiated to the Reusi tradition by Ajahn Prasong, Reusi Petch Dam, Reusi Sompit, Somananda Yogi and other venerable Masters and he also got initiated to the Sak Yan practice. Since then, the preservation of this tradition became one of his major purpose and the Sak Yan along with meditation became the means to divulge genuine information and to bring people closer to a more self-aware way of living according to Buddha’s Teachings.
Read more: www.sakyan.org | www.facebook.com/sakyan.org
Kids Zone
We always take care of attraction also for the youngest! We invite all children to the KIDS ZONE! Adults not allowed!
Dominik & Karolina
Tattoofest will traditionally be lead by Dominik Madrachowski and Karolina Duszkiewicz. Dominik is an announcer at the best Polish tattoo conventions, also he’s a manager of Warsaw tattoo studio „Juniorink”.Privately, his other passion is music and distinctive Basset dogs. Karolina is true-born Cracovian and she is associated with pop punk band CF98 for more than ten years. Her music path brought her to the final of 4th series of X Factor. She likes whisky and silly jokes. She also loves singing, colourful tattoos and cats, which she is allergic to – as she emphasizes – does not bother her at all, because she likes living on the edge.
Kategorie konkursowe
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
RULES OF APPLICATIONS
A) To the contest can be submitted all the tattoos, also made by individuals without booth (not acceptable from the category „Tattoo of the Day”).
B) Each tattoo can be reported only in one category!
C) During the registration a model for the contest everybody must give name and surname (or nickname) and the name of the artist and his studio. The jury will not have the access to the letter with artist name and studio. Each model will have granted a different number, which will be called to the stage.
D) At the time of registration to the category you have to present a tattoo or a picture of the tattoo. The recording person has the right to refuse to submit a particular tattoo to a particular or any category. In this way they will be verified tattoos showing too low level or those that don’t fit into any category.
[/fusion_toggle][/fusion_accordion][/fusion_builder_column_inner][/fusion_builder_row_inner]RULES OF GRADING
A) Under the terms of the artistic
B) Under the terms of the composition
C) Under the technical terms
Awards will be handed out after each of the categories / block of category.
JURY
Phenome is the world that describes Róbert Borbas most accurately. He took the time that most tattooers take to learn, to become one of the top artists in Europe. He is tattooing since 2012. When four years ago, Tattoofest interviewed him, Róbert was tattooing only for 1,5 year and his great talent was already recognizable. Vision, passion, great energy, positive mental attitude are the features that got Róbert to the point where he is now. He is a regular (and very liked) guest on Tattoofest.
www.instagram.com/grindesign_tattoo/
Co-founder of the Warsaw based studio Prism. He makes black and gray graphic tattoos. Baroque, Renaissance and ancient art along with a characteristic geometric element have had a great influence on him. He enhances classic themes with a modern touch, using the gradient effect, transparent layers and negative.
www.instagram.com/dotyk.tattoo/
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he studied painting with a specialization in new media. He started to tattoo relatively recently, because in 2012, however, more than ten years of experience in the field of visual arts allowed him to join the ranks of recognizable Polish tattooists in a short time. He likes to combine various media, apart from tattoo, painting and drawing, he is fascinated by photography, film and other, less conventional artistic activities. Tattoo artist since 2013 associated with the Krakow Kult Tattoo.
Saturday
12:00 – Convention opening – traditional welcome with St. Mary’s Trumpet Call
12:00 – 12:15 – Exprimo
12:15 – 13:30 – Presentation of exhibitors, discussion of the program
14:00 –„Worst of show 2018” – The ugliest tattoo contest (prize sponsored by “Bledy Mlodosci” tattoo removal)
15:00- 15:30 –Tattoo contest
MODERN BLACK TATTOO
15:30 – 15:45 – Rock & Roll acrobatic
15:50 – 1000 PLN voucher drawing (sponsored by Kult Tattoo) among all visitors
16:00 – 17:00 Tattoo contest
WOMEN’S COMPOSITION
BEST SLEEVE
17:00-17:15 – Lazy Daisies
17:30 – 18:30 – Tattoo contest:
NEO-TRADITIONAL TATTOO
SURREALISTIC TATTOO
18:30 – 18:45 – Mia Dolls
18:45 – 20:00 – Tattoo contest:
BEST OF DAY
20:00 – First day closure
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* 13:30 – Japanese Live Gallery by Mateusz Kanu (lobby)
* 15:30 – Open seminar „Sak Yan” – Reusi Bahlancadra (seminar room)
*18:30 – 3kings concert (outdoor zone)
Sunday
12:00 – Convention opening – traditional welcome with St. Mary’s Trumpet Call
13:00 – 13:30 – Games for the audience
13:30 – 1000 PLN voucher drawing (sponsored by Kult Tattoo) among all visitors
14:00 – 15:30 – Tattoo contest
LARGE BLACK & GREY
SMALL COLOUR
15:30 – 15:45 – Rock & Roll acrobatic
15:45 – 16:00 – Exprimo
16:00 – 17:30 – Tattoo contest:
SMALL BLACK & GREY
LARGE COLOUR
17:30-17:45 – Mia Dolls
17:45 – 19:00 – Tattoo contest:
BEST OF DAY
19:00 – End of convention.
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*15:30 – Open seminar – „A sign of identity” – Far East facial tattoo practice – Tobiasz Targosz (seminar room)
*16:30 – Gypsy and the Acid Queen concert (outdoor zone)
EWELINA LESIK
Born in 1989 in Tarnowskie Góry. She graduated Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Now she is making on this Academy hers PhD. She is laureate of many competitions, like gold medal in Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3).
„My inspiration for artistic worki is big fascination of biological structures and very intensive emotions about changes in animal’s bodies – birth, past away, death. I am looking for changing identity of living creatures, and their living after death.”
EWA MOS
Ewa has been working in the Creative Industry for about 10 years. She loves to combine in her work, illustration and photography, her both biggest passions. Thanks to that technique she can create completely new universe – where reality blends with imagination. She is also keen on street art , fashion, video and painting – practically every artistic form of expression. Graduate of Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering in Art&Design. She loves tattoos, skateboard and would like to become a mermaid when she grows up.
In her freelance career worked with many brands around the world. Among the clients you will find: Samsung, MISBHV, Butter Cut, Esquire Magazine, Tattoo Fest Mag & many others.
Strona: www.ewamos.com
FB: www.facebook.com/ewamos666/
Insta: @ewamos
HUMANS
They describe themselves as follows: “HUMANS is the new visual culture. The purpose of the project is to show emotions of each one of us against permanent formats of photography. Everyone is a star, each of us is the entire world. Unfortunately not everyone can see that.
JAN MACIEJ BOJKO
Searching for artistic forms of expression since early 2000s that resulted in exhibitions in both painting and drawing as well as a degree in arts and a couple of music projects.
Fascinated with tattooing since the first tattoo conventions in Poland where he was watching and learning from the pioneers of Polish tattoo scene. Between 2008 and 2014 owner of Niuans Tattoo Studio based in Toruń that sucesfully used the attitude of Witkiewicz towards the client. Since 2014 happily based in the Cykada Tattoo Studio in Sopot.
In private very attentive, thorough and contestant towards the everyday life.
„ In my artistic actions I think there is a sort of dualism – on one hand I was always inspired and drawn towards figurative subjects, descrtiptive or even journalistic and on the other I highly respect abstract and conceptual art in which the most important factor always was a sort of an inner element of getting to know oneself and the world without any given instructions on how to read and understand that world”
WITOLD WINEK
In 2013, he defended his master´s thesis in woodcut printing at the professor Bogdan Miga’s workshop at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Currently he is a post-graduate student at the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University of Cracow.
His work focuses on the workshop graphics in terms of
practical and theoretical form. He is interested in mysticism and UFOs. He is the author of four individual exhibitions and participant of more than forty collective exhibitions.
He showed his work, among others, in Spain, Germany and China.
NATALIA REX
Natalia Rex is a mixed-media artist that creates surreal graphics with herself as the main character. Her main influences are folk art, slavic mythology and surrealism.
Więcej na:
www.nataliarex.com
MAGGIE PIU
She was born in Krynica. Brought up in a family of artists for generations, she continues this traditions with dedication. The passion of her life is artistic drawing.
An architect by profession, Maggie lives and creates in Krakow.
In her artistic preferences, she is spiritually associated with an image ”fine-de-siecle” period. It combines the vision of a women from the turn of the century with the surrealistic image of the famale’s body-wrapping it in fairy-tale mysticism.
Maggie is continuausly improves the formof communicating her perception of the surrounding world. However, the expressive power of her work and mastery of details demonstrate a great maturity in her craft. The original manner of drawing which she has developed and christened “art graphique sexu-reel” resultsin a unique style. Her paintings can be found in private collections around the world.
VARANI KRISZTINA x MARIUS JUCAN
“My name is Várnai Krisztina, from Budapest (Hungary). I started tattooing 10 years ago, and i m working at Dark art tattoo right now. Besides that, i like to draw and paint as much as my free time let me. Nowadays my favourite medium is acryl paint on canvas. I use to start the painting with a base of a printed reference, but i change almost everything at the process. I like to do figurative art, with spiritual meaning possibly, but its always a surprise for me too, ow the painting is developing itself.
JACEK KLOSKOWSKI
Born in ’84, involved in photography for – fteen years. His works have been published among others in NAKID, C-Heads Magazine, P Magazine, Resuer. Editor and screenwriter of television and movie formats. Winner of the Script Fiesta festival (2017).
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kloskowski.jacek/
W 2006 roku do udziału zaprosiliśmy niespełna 30 artystów,
aktualnie mamy zaszczyt gościć ich ponad 300!
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