[Oberlist] Fwd: Another City Another Life

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From: Joanna Sokołowska <j.sokolowska la zacheta.art.pl>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Subject: Another City Another Life
To: Joanna Sokolowska <j.sokolowska la zacheta.art.pl>





*INNE MIASTO INNE ĹťYCIE  ANOTHER CITY ANOTHER
LIFE*<http://ancity.blogspot.com/2008/04/inne-miasto-inne-ycie-9-kwietnia-31.html>
9 April – 31 July 2008
Zacheta National Gallery of Art
and public spaces of Warsaw
www.ancity.blogspot.com

 Zbyněk Baladrán, socio-fiction (II.),  2005-7, videostills courtesy of the
artist

The* Another City, Another Life* project deals with the transformation of
Warsaw's urban and public space in the context of similar processes taking
place in other post-socialist cities. It confronts the uncompleted processes
of socialist modernisation, as well as present-day globalisation- and free
market-driven changes, community utopias, and personal images or memories of
another, better life. The post-socialist space is characterised by a
multiplicity of logics many of which are seemingly incompatible, e.g. the
politics of symbolic commemoration, representation of power, closely defined
images of national, religious or cultural identity, functions parallel to
the cities' opening to global capital flows and an economy based on
knowledge, entertainment and culture. The latter factors are rapidly
changing the models of urban production, destabilising extant social
hierarchies. The processes of neo-liberal slackening are accompanied by the
institution of new control regimes, new borders and exclusions. One can
clearly see the weakness of the urban public space, construed as the
democratic agora, the place where the interests of different social groups
are negotiated or even where antagonisms can clash, relative to the power of
state-apparatus control and investor influence. We are asking the invited
artists about the processes producing Warsaw's public space today, the
city's visual structure, the memory and experience of its inhabitants'
everyday life, about what in the dominant 'distribution of the sensible' is
visible and what is not. We will also consider the place and function of art
in shaping up the public space. New pieces will be created as part of the
project, the majority of them in Warsaw's public space, and their
documentation will be then presented at the Zachęta's Mały Salon. These
pieces will be realised successively between April and July 2008, and the
exhibition will expand and evolve as the artists carry out their activities.
In April, we will produce Truth's piece The Stand, which will be located at
an attractive street-vending spot in Warsaw's public space. Łukasz
Gronowski's video piece You Can Do Better Than That will be shown between
commercials on the screen on top of the Sezam department store at the corner
of Marszałkowska and Świętokrzyska. On the 8 April at 6 pm. Angelika Fojtuch
will do a public-space performance. Other projects will be announced on a
current basis in the blog  www.ancity.blogspot.com
 At the same time, from 9 April we are presenting at Mały Salon a video and
slide* archive* showing the works and documentations of artistic projects
realised in a number of other post-socialist cities (Petersburg, Sofia,
Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb, Lublana, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Skopje).
These works deal with topics such as the collapse of the socialist project,
including industrialisation and collective housing, contemporary economic
divisions in the cities, the lack of material continuity, architectural
chaos, tourism and image commercialisation, the peripheries vs. the centre,
the possibilities of alternative collective artistic and political action,
the forms of activity and adaptation in the face of an unpredictable and
risky economic situation… The archive will make it possible to compare the
perspective of Warsaw's transformation with processes occurring in the other
cities. Though their community has increasingly been seen as stigmatising
and petrifying no longer valid geopolitical and cultural divisions, it may
offer a chance for gaining a better understanding of Warsaw's situation in a
different context, going beyond the dominant system of references to Western
cities.

*Invited Artists* (Attention! The list can change): Zbyněk Baladrán
(Prague), Rahim Blak (Cracow), Bergamot (Volha Maslouskaya/Brest & Raman
Tratsiuk/Poznań), Grzegorz Drozd (Warsaw), Angelika Fojtuch (Gdynia) , Roman
Dziadkiewicz (Cracow), Andreja Kulunčić (Zagreb), Miklós Mécs (Budapest),
Anna Niesterowicz (Warsaw), Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana), Karol Radziszewski
(Warsaw), Joanna Rajkowska (Warsaw), R.E.P. – Ksenia Gnilitskaya, Nikita
Kadan, Janna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechnaya
(Kijów/Kiev), Piotr Sakowski (Warszawa/Warsaw), Truth (Wrocław), Twożywo
(Warsaw), Mona Vatamanu i Florin Tudor (Bucharest)

*The Archive:
*Vahram Aghasyan (Yerevan), Zbyněk Baladrán (Prague), Chto Delat
(Petersburg), MiklĂłs Erhardt (Budapest), Daniela Kostova (Sofia), Andreja
Kulunčić (Zagreb), Khinkali Juice (Nadia Tsulukidze & Sophia Tabatadze –
Tbilisi), Tadej Pogačar (Lublana), Nada Prlja (Skopje/London), Marija Mojca
Pungerčar (Ljubljana), Stefan Rusu (Chisinau), Škart (Dragan Protić and
Đorđe Balmazović – Belgrade), School of Arts, Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh – Tracking the City: Warsaw

Curators: *Joanna Sokołowska, Benjamin Cope*

exhibition sponsor Erste Stiftung, Videoboard

Zbyněk Baladrán's residency stay is supported by International Visegrad Fund
Andreja Kuluncic's project under the Honorary Patronage of His Excellence
Nebojsa Koharovic, the Ambassador of Croatia in Poland.project sponsor by
Andreja Kuluncic Pliva Barr
project partner Tracking the city (as part of the Creative Cities) British
Council
gallery sponsors PERI, Netia, Klima San
official carrier PLL LOT
media patronage Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, TVP, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice,
onet.pl, empik

*Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki
Pl. Małachowskiego 3
00-916 Warszawa
**http://www.zacheta.art.pl/* <http://www.zacheta.art.pl/>



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