Trembling bodies | video show and discussion on Polish engaged art
Visual Culture Research Center
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
www.vcrc.ukma.kiev.ua/uk
Old Academic Building, 1 st floor
2 Skovorody Street
04655 Kyiv Ukraine
November 29th 2011, Tuesday, - video show + introduction by Stanisław Ruksza
November 30th 2011, Wednesday, video show + discussion: Vasyl Cherepanyn, Stanisław Ruksza
PROGRAM:
movies by Paweł Althamer, Katarzyna Górna, Zbigniew Libera, Joanna Rajkowska, Artur Żmijewski
Trembling Bodies, Conversations with Artists is an anthology of Artur Żmijewski’s conversations with Polish artists related to the “critical art” movement, such as Paweł Althamer, Katarzyna Górna, Andrzej Karas, Grzegorz Klaman, Grzegorz Kowalski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera, Jacek Markiewicz, Joanna Rajkowska. These conversations, conducted between 1993 and 2004, express radical artistic positions analyzed through the lens of everyday-life, and social and political transformations. This corpus of texts appears as a major document relating the evolutions of Polish art from the 1990s to the present. Żmijewski is not a neutral interlocutor: he expects and provokes proofs and explanations, like an investigator. He is seeking the very explosive material that enabled “critical art” - the only cultural movement in post-communist Poland - to openly confront our own social imaginations. Żmijewski’s book appears as a friendly farewell to “critical art”, and as a will to formulate a new program of artistic actions, described by the author in his manifesto Applied Social Arts.
Stanisław Ruksza – art historian, curator and artistic director of Center of Contemporary Art Kronika in Bytom, co-editor of “Trembling bodies” by Artur Żmijewski.
Vasyl Cherepanyn – artist, director of Visual Culture Research Center, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Event is co-organized by the Centre of Contemporary Art KRONIKA in Bytom
Event is supported by the Polish Ministry of Cultural and National Heritage.
