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*Deadline for application 31.3.2015* *SURVIVAL 13. Art Review„Prohibited Acts”26 – 30.06.2015Riot Police BarracsKsięcia Witolda 38 – 40Wrocław* More info here http://www.survival.art.pl/,39 SURVIVAL is an event that has been held for 13 years and presents contemporary art in the public space of Wrocław. The Review is hosted in buildings and building complexes located near the main centres of events or in social spaces where the everyday life of the city concentrates. Throughout its 13-year history, SURVIVAL has been organised in venues such as: the squares and building in the Four Temples District, the former seat of the Feature Films Studio, the Pharmacy building of Wrocław Medical University, the former air-raid shelter in Plac Strzegomski, or the central railway station. The 2015 edition will be held in the historical barracks of the Riot Police Unit in Wrocław in Księcia Witolda Street. The exhibition concept will be devised basing on the context of an offence in its broad sense, and the inspiration for both the curators and the artists will be provided by the human need to violate the law and break generally accepted rules, which is part an parcel of human nature. The motto of this year’s edition, “Prohibited Acts”, has been inspired by a legal term and refers to human behaviours and phenomena bordering on illegality or openly violating the law. The chosen venue, which is strongly marked by its former policing function, will make it possible to study a number of notions linked with breaking human-made as well as natural laws. The very gradation of the phenomenon: offence – crime – felony, could be treated as an introduction to deliberations on the dysfunctions in social relationships. This year’s motto is also significant in the context of the city, which in scientific research is often described as an area exceptionally prone to victimization. Similarly to Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, which depicted a totally broken city on the verge of decline, today’s motif of the “sin city” is often used in art and culture as a metaphor of human decline. Artists have always been interested in evil. With reference to contemporary visual arts, the motto suggests threads connected not only with the traditionally understood perception of crime and offence as inspiration for artists, but also triggers associations with “prohibited acts” in art. These acts, however, do not just include the immoral and socially condemned practices of “appropriation”, “transformation” and even “destruction”, i.e. all the rebellious and deceptive actions that distort the authoritative social order. In the newest art, all that which is prohibited or borders on illegality is often consciously included in the repertoire of artistic methods, becoming part of contemporary practitioners’ manifestoes or even a legitimate field of art. Paulina Maloy
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