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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.
Jugoslavia 1961–1973. The History of New Tendencies and Bit Magazine
The artists of New Tendencies operated against the background of concrete art, constructivism, op-art and kinetic art. Moreover, they were some of the first to use the computer not so much as a useful tool, but as a completely new medium of creative art.
Open Throne – presentation of the catalogue of an exhibition that never was
The exhibition Open Throne. Contemporary Art and the Phenomenon of John Paul II was intended to provide a collection of stories and objects related to the spiritual amnesia, void and disappearance of any traces of the cult of John Paul II.
Audio-visual translation
MOCAK is a partner of an international conference on audio-visual translations, which will take part in Krakow on 14 and 15 October 2011.
Nefarious Memes – a lecture by Magdalena Kamińska
What is the shape of today’s Cyberculture? What phenomena combine to create its media space? Cyber-gossips, auction web sites, netspeak, chatspeak, Cyber-churches and fan forums – these have all become part of the landscape.
Transformation Sites
The film was shot on location in Berlin, Gdańsk and Kjiv – cities that are symbols of systemic transformation – both political and economic.
Polish Tanztheater?
The increasingly popular in Poland phenomenon of ‘dance theatre’ is quite different from the German Tanztheater. A new generation of dancers and choreographers has appeared in Poland, for whom the German approach to dancing is not a fundamental point of reference.
