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Arbeitsplatz/A Blue Line. Bałka/Krasiński – studios
The session explored the photographs of Mirosław Bałka’s studio taken by Professor Jarnuszkiewicz as well as the series A Blue Line (documentation of the flat of Edward Krasiński) by Jan Smaga and Aneta Grzeszykowska.
Mariusz ‘Wilk’ Wilczyński – a retrospective, fragments
Presentation of selected animated films by Mariusz ‘Wilk’ Wilczyński, to date the only Polish artist to have had a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Gluing a cup with clay and lead
Technical and aesthetic conservation of one of the elements of Matthias Jackisch’s painting installation No Mad Pot Stops to Be Nomad (1995).
Traditional Photography in the Era of Digital Media – a lecture by André Rouillé
A lecture by a professor of art, philosophy and aesthetics at the Paris 8 University dealt with the function and status of traditional photography in the era of digital media and image inflation, as well as the related increasing interest in photography as art and its commercial success.
Haiku Performance at MOCAK
On 22 November at 6 pm, Aleksander Janicki with HiQ Haiku group will perform at MOCAK as part of the Audio Art Festival.
Does Krakow need a Women’s Museum?
What role could a Women’s Museum play? An archive, a research centre, a place where feminism – that still has the status of a niche activity – meets the public at large. Or, perhaps, a new institution which collects relics of prominent female citizens and artists as well as documenting the transformations of the social mores and life in the community.
A film showing: Świecie 2009 – directed by Artur Żmijewski
Świecie 2009 is the documentation of a sculptors’ plein air organised by Żmijewski, inspired by the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg in 1965. On this occasion, the participants were seven artists as well as workers from the steel fabrication factory in Świecie.
MOCAK at the 15th Kraków Book Fair
3 – 6 November: Do visit the stall of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow at the Fair.
Some Thoughts on Contemporary Photography – a lecture by Michael Fried
Michael Fried is one of the most prominent critics and historians of contemporary art and his writings include the well-known essay Art and Objecthood. Currently lectures at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Book launch: Not Geese: Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949
Not Geese is the first such broad attempt to reconstruct the process of the shaping of Polish graphic design. The book serves as a map of the areas of visual communication – it aims to enable the reader to visualise the idiom of images at any particular time and its successive transformation.
