<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Joanna Sokołowska</b> <<a href="mailto:j.sokolowska@zacheta.art.pl">j.sokolowska@zacheta.art.pl</a>><br>Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:35 PM<br>
Subject: Another City Another Life<br>To: Joanna Sokolowska <<a href="mailto:j.sokolowska@zacheta.art.pl">j.sokolowska@zacheta.art.pl</a>><br><br><br>
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<div><span><a href="http://ancity.blogspot.com/2008/04/inne-miasto-inne-ycie-9-kwietnia-31.html" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><b>INNE MIASTO INNE ŻYCIE ANOTHER CITY
ANOTHER LIFE</b></font></a></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Calibri">9 April – 31 July 2008<br>Zacheta National
Gallery of Art <br>and public spaces of Warsaw</font><br></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Calibri"><font size="2">Zbyněk Baladrán<span style="font-size: 8pt;">, socio-fiction
(II.),<span> </span>2005-7, videostills courtesy
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<h3 align="justify"><br></h3></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3">The<i> Another City, Another Life</i> project deals with the
transformation of Warsaw's urban and public space in the context of similar
processes taking place in other post-socialist cities. It confronts the
uncompleted processes of socialist modernisation, as well as present-day
globalisation- and free market-driven changes, community utopias, and personal
images or memories of another, better life.</font></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3">
<h3 style="margin: auto 0cm;" align="justify"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The
post-socialist space is characterised by a multiplicity of logics many of which
are seemingly incompatible, e.g. the politics of symbolic commemoration,
representation of power, closely defined images of national, religious or
cultural identity, functions parallel to the cities' opening to global capital
flows and an economy based on knowledge, entertainment and culture. The latter
factors are rapidly changing the models of urban production, destabilising
extant social hierarchies. The processes of neo-liberal slackening are
accompanied by the institution of new control regimes, new borders and
exclusions. One can clearly see the weakness of the urban public space,
construed as the democratic agora, the place where the interests of different
social groups are negotiated or even where antagonisms can clash, relative to
the power of state-apparatus control and investor influence.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: auto 0cm;" align="justify"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">We
are asking the invited artists about the processes producing Warsaw's public
space today, the city's visual structure, the memory and experience of its
inhabitants' everyday life, about what in the dominant 'distribution of the
sensible' is visible and what is not. We will also consider the place and
function of art in shaping up the public space.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></h3></font></span>
<h3 align="justify"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3">New pieces will be created as part of the project, the majority of them
in Warsaw's public space, and their documentation will be then presented at the
Zachęta's Mały Salon. These pieces will be realised successively between April
and July 2008, and the exhibition will expand and evolve as the artists carry
out their activities. In April, we will produce Truth's piece The Stand, which
will be located at an attractive street-vending spot in Warsaw's public space.
Łukasz Gronowski's video piece You Can Do Better Than That will be shown between
commercials on the screen on top of the Sezam department store at the corner of
Marszałkowska and Świętokrzyska. On the 8 April at 6 pm. Angelika Fojtuch will
do a public-space performance. Other projects will be announced on a current
basis in the blog <span><a href="http://www.ancity.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.ancity.blogspot.com</a></span></font></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></h3><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span>
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</h3><h3 style="margin: auto 0cm;" align="justify"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3">At the same time, from 9 April we are presenting at Mały Salon a video
and slide<b> archive</b> showing the works and documentations of
artistic projects realised in a number of other post-socialist cities
(Petersburg, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb, Lublana, Yerevan,
Tbilisi, Skopje). These works deal with topics such as the collapse of the
socialist project, including industrialisation and collective housing,
contemporary economic divisions in the cities, the lack of material continuity,
architectural chaos, tourism and image commercialisation, the peripheries vs.
the centre, the possibilities of alternative collective artistic and political
action, the forms of activity and adaptation in the face of an unpredictable and
risky economic situation… The archive will make it possible to compare the
perspective of Warsaw's transformation with processes occurring in the other
cities. Though their community has increasingly been seen as stigmatising and
petrifying no longer valid geopolitical and cultural divisions, it may offer a
chance for gaining a better understanding of Warsaw's situation in a different
context, going beyond the dominant system of references to Western
cities.<br><br><b>Invited Artists</b> (Attention! The list can
change): Zbyněk Baladrán (Prague), Rahim Blak (Cracow), Bergamot (Volha
Maslouskaya/Brest & Raman Tratsiuk/Poznań), Grzegorz Drozd (Warsaw),
Angelika Fojtuch (Gdynia) , </font></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3">Roman Dziadkiewicz (Cracow), Andreja Kulunčić (Zagreb), Miklós Mécs
(Budapest), Anna Niesterowicz (Warsaw), Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana), Karol
Radziszewski (Warsaw), Joanna Rajkowska (Warsaw), R.E.P. – Ksenia Gnilitskaya,
Nikita Kadan, Janna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Lada
Nakonechnaya (Kijów/Kiev), Piotr Sakowski (Warszawa/Warsaw), Truth (Wrocław),
Twożywo (Warsaw), Mona Vatamanu i Florin Tudor (Bucharest)<br><br></font><font size="3"><b>The Archive:<br></b>Vahram Aghasyan (Yerevan), Zbyněk
Baladrán (Prague), Chto Delat (Petersburg), Miklós Erhardt (Budapest), Daniela
Kostova (Sofia), Andreja Kulunčić (Zagreb), Khinkali Juice (Nadia Tsulukidze
& Sophia Tabatadze – Tbilisi), Tadej Pogačar (Lublana), Nada Prlja
(Skopje/London), Marija Mojca Pungerčar (Ljubljana), Stefan Rusu (Chisinau),
Škart (Dragan Protić and Đorđe Balmazović – Belgrade), School of Arts, Culture
and Environment University of Edinburgh – Tracking the City:
Warsaw<br><br>Curators: <b>Joanna Sokołowska, Benjamin Cope</b>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">exhibition
sponsor Erste Stiftung, Videoboard</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Zbyněk
Baladrán's residency stay is supported by International Visegrad
Fund</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Andreja
Kuluncic's project under the Honorary Patronage of His Excellence Nebojsa
Koharovic, the Ambassador of Croatia in Poland.project sponsor by Andreja
Kuluncic Pliva Barr<br>project partner Tracking the city (as part of the
Creative Cities) British Council<br>gallery sponsors PERI, Netia, Klima
San<br>official carrier PLL LOT<br>media patronage Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka,
TVP, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice, onet.pl,
empik</span></p><br></font><b><font size="3">Zachęta Narodowa
Galeria Sztuki<br>Pl. Małachowskiego 3<br>00-916
Warszawa<br></font></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.zacheta.art.pl/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><font size="3">http://www.zacheta.art.pl/</font></b></span></a></span></h3>
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