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SFX: Publiczność - Spontaneous Publics

[ Exhibition project ]
Building on a three-month research visit to Germany, where he was invited by Büro Kopernikus through its “Ambassadors Research Programme”, Kraków artist and activist Roman Dziadkiewicz developed the project "SFX: Publiczność". The project addresses current questions concerning the structure and conditions of publicness in Germany (as an example of a Western European country) and Poland (as an example of a post-socialist country in the process of transformation).

The Polish term “publiczność” has a double meaning. On the one hand it means audience, on the other it means public life. The project "SFX: Publiczność" brings together artists, activists, and theorists from Germany and Poland, allowing them to examine differences and similarities of “publiczność” in the two countries and to develop joint projects. The potential as well as the problems of various forms of publicness – such as the Internet, new media, and city space – take centre stage.

The main part of the project will take place over eight weeks at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. Through a succession of installations and alterations, presentations and workshops in the exhibition space, as well as through activities in the Kunstverein’s urban surroundings, "SFX: Publiczność" will develop continuously over the specified period in interaction with the audience.
Venue
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster

Dates
3 September - 30 October 2005

Participating Institutions
Wetsfälischer Kunstverein Münster
topic:
Debates
projects on the topic:
Ambassadors – Research Programme
[ Work exchange for artists and curators ]
Radio_Copernicus
[ German-Polish artists' radio ]
Jagniątków. Move the Mount
[ Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Choreographers ]
baz@rt / Europe Learning - Frankfurt meets Krakow
[ Theatre festivals in Krakow and Frankfurt on the Main ]
The Mechanics of Oblivion. A German-Polish Conference
[ Phenomena of oblivion and marginalisation in visual art of the last two decades ]
Germany against Poland
[ The Football Talk Show ]
Veronika Blumstein - Moving Exiles
[ Festival for invention and choreography ]
PDF / RadioSimulator
[ Polnisch-Deutsche Freundschaft ]

Idea, Coordination
Roman Dziadkiewicz




Picture: Kai Schiemenz, "Splendid Modernism"