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A Paralysing Encounter

Administrator — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:37:59 +0200

“I am putting the fire underneath people”. Isaac Julien in conversation with Katarzyna Bojarska

Administrator — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:00:19 +0200

Kazimir Malevich – a Tragic Hero? Written by a witness and confidant of many events from long ago

Administrator — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:40:05 +0200

What hurts me when I remember the last chapter of Malevich's life? What hurts me when I recapitulate the humiliations he experienced then, earlier, and after his death? It is the way historians and researchers have ignored the issue, passing it over in silence. I am 92 years old. I do not want to take with me to the other side an undecipherable mystery that was once shared with me in Leningrad by Anna Leporskaya, the artist's, her teacher's, confidant.

My memory serves me correctly. In 1935 I saw for the first time the Black Square, or rather its reproduction, in an issue of the now-defunct avant-garde periodical BLOK. I felt like confronting something infinitely attractive, though unfathomable.

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Coming Together to Stay Apart. Douglas Crimp in conversation with Katarzyna Bojarska, Luiza Nader and Agata Pyzik

Administrator — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:36:41 +0200

From May 12th to May 14th 2008 Prof. Douglas Crimp stayed in Warsaw on the invitation of the Foksal Gallery Foundation. In the Avantgarde Institute he held seminars which concentrated on the questions of subjectivity, memory, history and the identity politics. The point of departure for these discussion, as well as for the public lecture "Action around the Edges", were fragments of his two recent books together with texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Yvonne Rainer Andy Warhol's films.

Luiza Nader: Beginning our conversation, I would like to refer to your compelling seminars and lecture in the Avantgarde Institute in Warsaw in May 2008.

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The Third Mind in Guggenheim Museum NY

Administrator — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:54 +0100

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Manifesto of slowness. Agata Mazur talks with Elina Brotherus

aleksandra_polisiewicz — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:48:50 +0100

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Does the West love the Kabakovs? Does the East do so?

aleksandra_polisiewicz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:19:58 +0100

On death, humour, intelligentsia, history, modernism, art in Russia and worldwide

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Truancy

aleksandra_polisiewicz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:53:32 +0100

The following is an authorised transcript of a meeting with Artur Żmijewski at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle (2 April 2008) as part of the My History of Art series.

Paweł Polit: Our guest today is Artur Żmijewski, author of the manifesto The Applied Social Arts, published almost exactly a year ago in Krytyka Polityczna (no. 11/12, winter 2007). He is an author of important, famous, often controversial and widely debated works, such as Tag Play, 80064, Repetition, or Them. I'd also like to point out the theoretical dimension of his work, adding a historical-artistic aspect.
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It started with my rebellious spirit.

obieg_admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:41:15 +0100
Preface:
Yoko Ono: What is your name again?

Katarzyna Bojarska: [kataˈʐɨna]

Y.O. Beautiful, amazing, very musical.

K.B. And almost unpronounceable.

Y.O. You should insist on this spelling and the pronunciation. This is how people can become richer by this experience. My name is Yoko, so it is very easy to pronounce. But when I first went to America, many Japanese people told me: "Oh, you should be called Sara from now." And it is no good. One should insist on being called with their names.
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