[oberlist] The Journey to the East at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok

[stefan rusu]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:48 PM, e-Flux <info at mailer.e-flux.com> wrote:

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> *Arsenal Gallery* <http://www.galeria-arsenal.pl>
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> Elene Rakviashvili, "Where You Belong," 2010.
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>  *The Journey to the East*
> 5 August–30 September 2011
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> *Opening:* 17:00
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>  *Arsenal Gallery in Białystok*
> Mickiewicza 2, Bialystok, Poland
> Installations in city space
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> www.galeria-arsenal.pl
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>  *Project is a part of the Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency
> in 2011.*
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> *Organizers*
> Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
> National Audiovisual Institute (www.nina.gov.pl)
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> *Sponsors:*
> PKO BP, PZU
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> *Local organizer*
> Arsenal Gallery
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> *Local Partners*
> Bialystok City
> Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
> Polish Insitute in Kiev
> Mystetskyi Arsenal
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> *THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST*
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> As a part of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council, Arsenal Gallery in
> Bialystok is organizing an exhibition entitled "The Journey to the East."
> Poland, along with Sweden, is the initiator of Eastern Partnership project.
> Therefore we invite artists from participating countries—Armenia,
> Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, and Ukraine—as well as artists from
> Poland.
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> We do not want to pigeonhole the works on the basis of nationality;
> however, we do not pretend that the issues of ethnicity and nationality are
> invisible. Young political systems and post-communist heritage still
> influence art in many countries. Artistic activity is connected not only to
> artist's personal resources: art schools, institutions supporting the
> artists' work, the existence of artistic circles and presence of art critics
> and curators play an important role as well. These are important issues,
> which we have noticed in virtually every country we have visited. Finally,
> artists make statements concerning only the topics pertaining to themselves
> and their lives.
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> Edwin Bendyk prophesies that the solution to various global problems is the
> creation of interpersonal relations based on love, not competition,
> hierarchy or domination. We are interested in love, which transgresses the
> notion of relation between two people. We seek positive emotions, which
> create bonds between people all over the world—bonds that are an alternative
> to government authority and economic capital.
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> We want to ask the artists what role they think these emotions play in
> post-communist society and whether building new social capital on
> interpersonal relations is a utopian dream or actually the achievable
> solution.
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> We see our project as an open situation, creating various modes of
> participation and interpretation—not only watching and listening, but also
> discussion, active participation and writing. We will gather objects,
> organize meetings, discussions, lectures, workshops, performances and
> installations in public space.
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> *Artists:*
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> Vahram Aghasyan
> Rashad Alakbarov
> Ruben Arevshatyan
> Babi Badalov
> Samvel Baghdasaryan
> Alicja Bielawska
> Anatoly Belov
> Bouillon Group
> CHINGIZ
> Anna Chkolnikova
> Lado Darakhvelidze
> Kuba Dąbrowski
> Veaceslav Druta
> Tatiana Fiodorova
> Arman Grigoryan
> Nicolas Grospierre
> Armine Hovhannisyan
> Orkhan Huseynov
> Elżbieta Jabłońska
> Dominik Jałowiński
> Alevtina Kakhidze
> Yaroslava-Maria Khomenko
> Tigran Khachatryan
> Aleksander Komarov
> Maxim Kuzmenko
> Volodymyr Kuznetsov
> Anna Molska
> Marina Naprushkina
> Dumitru Oboroc
> Joanna Rajkowska
> Elene Rakviashvili
> Stefan Rusu
> Nino Sekhniashvili
> Sergey Shabohin
> Sabina Shikhlinskaya
> Jakub Szczęsny
> Sophia Tabatadze
> TanzLaboratorium
> Stas Volyazlovsky
> Oleg Yushko
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> *Curator:*
> Monika Szewczyk
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> *Project Concept:*
> Anna Łazar, Monika Szewczyk
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> *Contributing Curators:*
> Magda Guruli
> Mariana Hovhannisyan
> Anna Łazar
> Lena Prents
> Stefan Rusu
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> *Exhibition Design:*
> Robert Rumas
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> *Artworks production coordinator:*
> Sylwia Narewska
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