Ў Gallery of Contemporary
7 July – 2 August 2016
7 July – 2 August 2016
Organisation: Ў Gallery of Contemporary
Art Partner: Kulturos Ambasada
The project QAI/BY by Karol Radziszewski in co-operation with Sergei Shabohin
and Alexey Lunev
Furthermore: Zhanna Gladko, Igor Savchenko, Alesia Zhitkevich, Aleksey
Naumchik, Make Out
Curatorial support: Lena Prents, Valentina Kiselyova
QAI/BY is a code.
Code is a system of rules to convert information, occurrences, circumstances —
such as a letter, image, gesture, ritual, event, or a reminder — into another
form or representation. As a shortened, hidden or secret mnemonic, it serves up
the communication and keeps stories. QAI/BY goes the opposite way and
transforms the hidden information into visibility. It is a process in order to
encode former and present lifestyles, attitudes and cultural production united
under the term “queer”.
“Queer Archives Institute”(QAI) is a project by Polish artist Karol
Radziszewski, that he established in 2015. The QAI focuses on archiving and
re-interpretation of queer issues from former socialist countries and beyond.
Before this, Radziszewski has been working for years on subjects of
homosexuality and masculinity in Central and Eastern Europe. His QAI is led by
an interest in a concept and embodiment of queer identities which allows a
broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous consideration of sexual
and gender settings.
The idea for QAI/BY arose during Karol Radziszewski’s residency in Minsk. Being
inspired by Igor Savchenko’s series of photographs “Invisible”, the artist made
an attempt to immerse in Belarusian oral history and to track down what is or
could be thought as queer in Belarus from the past till now – as hidden and
invisible issues. Hence, QAI/BY doesn’t fix any new set-ups but invites
artists, activists and interested public to reflect on and to continue the
establishing of queer archive in Belarus.
Additional program:
July 12th, 2016, 7 pm
— Karol Radziszewski’s presentation of his artistic practice including the DIK
Fagazine that he publishes
— MakeOut presentation (tbc)
— Alexey Lunev’s workshop
Curatorial concept, artistic contribution and design of the exhibition QAI/BY
are developed by Karol Radziszewski during his residency in Minsk. This
residency is realised in the framework of the project "BLUE BOX. Common places
in contemporary artistic practices", initiated under the Re-Directing: East
program conducted by the A-I-R Laboratory at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and
co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of
Poland.
Special thanks for supporting of the project QAI/BY to Kulturos Ambasada, LT
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