1,2,3 Avant-Gardes *1,2,3 Avant-Gardes* Experiment / Film / Art / Archive
Dec. 9, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007 Opening: Dec. 8, 2006, 7pm Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland Artists: Akademia Ruchu, Antosz & Andzia, Pawe? Althamer / Artur Z.mijewski, Piotr Andrejew, Bernadette Corporation, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Matthew Buckingham, Bogdan Dziworski, Marcin Giz.ycki, Janusz Haka, Oskar Hansen, Judith Hopf / Katrin Pesch, Tadeusz Junak, Jacques de Koning, Igor Krenz, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Zofia Kulik, Pawe? Kwiek, Przemys?aw Kwiek, Natalia LL, Jolanta Marcolla, Jonathan Monk, Ewa Partum, Andrzej Paw?owski, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Józef Robakowski, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Zbigniew Rybczyn'ski, Zygmunt Rytka, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jadwiga Singer, Zdzis?aw Sosnowski, Mieczys?aw Szczuka, Micha? Tarkowski, Stefan & Franciszka Themerson, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Ryszard Was'ko, Jan S. Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Zare;bski, Florian Zeyfang The exhibition 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes celebrates the (ongoing) history of the experiment in film and art, and the interactions between these two fields. The exhibition brings together artists and filmmakers from different countries and generations, juxtaposing their work with the outstanding history of Polish avant-garde film, represented by the works of Pawe? Kwiek, Józef Robakowski, Natalia LL, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Bogdan Dziworski and many others. The exhibition works with the tension created by a "horizontal" and a "vertical" interpretation of the multiplicity of the avant-garde and evoked by the exhibition's title 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes: Horizontal - in the sense of different ideas of modernism, the pluralism of film and conceptual image-work existing in the different worlds of the Cold War and today; Vertical - suggesting the search for a possible historicisation of Polish avant-garde art and film, a linearity, to be discovered and reconstructed in light of the many distortions in Polish history over the last 80 years. Vertically, it contains a reference to the three movements important to experimentation with art and film: the very first modernist avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde of the 1970s, and the artists who started working in the 1990s to address, often with irony or idealism, the heritage of the two previous movements. In contrast, the title's horizontal reading includes different understandings of the notion of avant-garde - like Peter Wollen's text Two Avant-Gardes that elaborates on the difference between narrative politics and politics of the formal experiment - suggesting something like a third, fourth and even fifth avant-garde 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes experiments itself with a setting that confronts the videos and films of artists working since the 1990s and influenced by different legacies and notions of moving image with the extensive work of earlier generations of artists, performers and filmmakers in Poland. The exhibition consists of six rooms, organised according to different themes, such as Analytical strategies, Political and Ideological Engagement, Sound / Image, Imagination, Games / Participation, Consumption, and features work especially developed for the show. Another important issue off the exhibition is work with the archive. The show is a specific summary of the previous events of the program of the Film Archive of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, which is a research project focused on gathering and analysing Polish film and art. The aim of the program is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art, and to develop contemporary contexts of presentation for this historic material. 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes is curated by ?ukasz Ronduda and Florian Zeyfang and conceived within the framework of Buero Kopernikus, an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). The exhibition is supported by IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stichting Mondriaan, and Piktogram Magazine. Collaboration: Kaja Pawe?ek. Exhibiton design: Centrala http://www.centrala.net.pl For further information: Kaja Pawe?ek: + 48 22 6281271 # 104, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.buero-kopernikus.org/en/project/2/36/0 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes will be shown in 2007 at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (with a special focus) and at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. A catalogue will be published with essays by Leire Vergara, David Crowley, Steven Ball/David Curtis, Stefanie Peter, Anselm Franke, Jan Verwoert, Michal Wolinski, ?ukasz Ronduda, and including an archive section and artist pages. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Al. Ujazdowskie 6, 00-461 Warsaw, Poland tel: (+48 22) 628 12 71-3 fax: (+48 22) 628 95 50 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
