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Do female artists 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.
Voices in the Night
In his In the Night, Brzozowski uncompromisingly revises not only the romantic tradition, but also concepts of art and the author. He turns out to be a precursor of a particular approach to the shaping of the consciousness and subjectivity within the area of art and creativity.
Citizens’ Forum of Contemporary Art
The Citizens’ Forum of Contemporary Art is an open association of various communities, organisations and private individuals from all over Poland, that have one thing in common – their desire to accelerate the changes needed in the cultural arena, especially in relation to contemporary art.
Awkward Objects – a session dedicated to Alina Szapocznikow
The meeting revolved around Alina Szapocznikow’s book: Awkward Objects (ed. Agata Jakubowska). The publication accompanied Alina Szapocznikow’s exhibition Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 presented in the WIEKS Centre of Contemporary Art in Brussels in September 2011.
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.
