[oberlist] CfW: Survival Art Review Wroclaw (PL) 26-30.6.2015

[Paulina Maloy]

*You still have 5 days to apply for Survival Art Review - Contemporary Art
Review in Wrocław Poland.*

*Deadline for application 31.3.2015*








*SURVIVAL 13. Art Review„Prohibited Acts”26 – 30.06.2015Riot Police
BarracsKsięcia Witolda 38 – 40Wrocław*

More info here http://www.survival.art.pl/,39


SURVIVAL is an event that has been held for 13 years and presents
contemporary art in the public space of Wrocław. The Review is hosted in
buildings and building complexes located near the main centres of events or
in social spaces where the everyday life of the city concentrates.
Throughout its 13-year history, SURVIVAL has been organised in venues such
as: the squares and building in the Four Temples District, the former seat
of the Feature Films Studio, the Pharmacy building of Wrocław Medical
University, the former air-raid shelter in Plac Strzegomski, or the central
railway station.

The 2015 edition will be held in the historical barracks of the Riot Police
Unit in Wrocław in Księcia Witolda Street. The exhibition concept will be
devised basing on the context of an offence in its broad sense, and the
inspiration for both the curators and the artists will be provided by the
human need to violate the law and break generally accepted rules, which is
part an parcel of human nature.

The motto of this year’s edition, “Prohibited Acts”, has been inspired by a
legal term and refers to human behaviours and phenomena bordering on
illegality or openly violating the law. The chosen venue, which is strongly
marked by its former policing function, will make it possible to study a
number of notions linked with breaking human-made as well as natural laws.
The very gradation of the phenomenon: offence – crime – felony, could be
treated as an introduction to deliberations on the dysfunctions in social
relationships.

This year’s motto is also significant in the context of the city, which in
scientific research is often described as an area exceptionally prone to
victimization. Similarly to Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, which
depicted a totally broken city on the verge of decline, today’s motif of
the “sin city” is often used in art and culture as a metaphor of human
decline.

Artists have always been interested in evil. With reference to contemporary
visual arts, the motto suggests threads connected not only with the
traditionally understood perception of crime and offence as inspiration for
artists, but also triggers associations with “prohibited acts” in art.
These acts, however, do not just include the immoral and socially condemned
practices of “appropriation”, “transformation” and even “destruction”, i.e.
all the rebellious and deceptive actions that distort the authoritative
social order. In the newest art, all that which is prohibited or borders on
illegality is often consciously included in the repertoire of artistic
methods, becoming part of contemporary practitioners’ manifestoes or even a
legitimate field of art.

Paulina Maloy
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