[oberlist] Roma Issue.A Project with Majority. CCA Konin

[Joanna Warsza]

Roma Issue. A Project with Majority
CCA Konin, 12-20 October 2012

12 October: Opening of Pavel Braila 'Barons' Hill' and 'Talking Letters' & Marek Miller 'Romani Flag'
13 October: Artists, activists and talks in Romani Villa

Art, architecture, talks, guided tours and a campfire


Artists, activists, researchers: Pavel Braila, Miklosz Deki, Miklosz Marek & Sara Czureja, Agnieszka Makuła, Piotr Marciniak, Anna Markowska, Marek Miller, Tamara Moyzes, Roma Preview Pavilion, Adam Paczkowski, Marjetica Potrč, Anna Prus, Árpád Schilling/Krétakör, Sandra Teitge/Dinner Exchange Berlin, Bronisława Wajs (Papusza), Leah Whitman-Salkin

Curated by Joanna Warsza, in the framework of Wielkopolska Revolutions, curated by Agata Siwiak

'Roma Issue. A Project with Majority' looks upon the biggest minority in Europe as a source of possible, not apparent but vital political and social inspiration. Roma are most often stigmatized and marginalized and even social programs introduce an irreducible difference between the normative majority and the marked Other. 'Roma Issue' is an invitation to forget culture's specific set of rules and asks how Romani culture could become a horizon of possible scenarios for reworking democratic tools, and what kind of models it could provide when it comes to collectivity, mobility, post-nationalistic and anti-territorial agenda, general assemblies, or self-design and daring architecture.
The project consists of the first individual presentation of Pavel Braila's work in Poland with 'Baron's Hill': a video on the typology of the Romani villas in the Moldavian city of Soroca, and a trailer of his new project 'Talking Letters', a documentary on Romani language. Additionally, one-day interventions will take place in a beautiful Romani villa by artists, activists and researchers – including talks about 'Border Theories', which prove that a division minor versus major puts a threat to holistic perception of reality and guided tours on villa architecture of Polska Roma. A Romani flag will be hung on the top of the water tower – the seat of CCA Konin – an installation by the activist Marek Miller, which can also be seen from passing trains on the Berlin-Warszawa express line.
 
Program:
12 October: Opening followed by talks in the house of Romani Elder
18.00-21.00: Water Tower Gallery, Kolejowa 1a
Pavel Braila 'Baron's Hill' & Romani flag on the Tower, an installation by Marek Miller
 
13 October: Open Doors in Romani Villa 12.00-18.00
Artists & Projects: Pavel Braila, Tamara Moyzes, Marjetica Potrč, Árpád Schilling, Roma Preview Pavilion, Bronisława Wajs (Papusza), Dinner Exchange Berlin
Talks with and by: Mikosz Czureja, Magda Kałużna-Krysińska, Damian Kruczkowski, Agnieszka Makuła, Piotr Marciniak, Anna Markowska, Marek Miller, Anna Prus, Sandra Teitge, Leah Whitman-Salkin,
 
12-20 October: Exhibition continues in the Water Tower Gallery
 
Wielkopolska Rewolucje / Wielkopolska Revolutions is a project commissioned by the Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Region
 http://wielkopolskarewolucje.blogspot.com
 


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