MOCAK Club, October 2011
We would like to invite you to the following events:

Polish Tanztheater?
Discussion panel about Polish dancing
Sunday 9 October, 12 noon

The ‘dance theatre’, more and more common in Poland, is a totally different phenomenon from the German Tanztheater. A new generation of dancers and choreographers has appeared in Poland for whom the German way of approaching dance is not the main point of reference.
What is? How has thinking about dance evolved? How is this affecting the choreographic methods? These questions will be tackled by: Anna Królica, Rafał Dziemidok, Wojtek Ziemilski.
Hosted by: Witold Mrozek (the Institute of Music and Dance).

The event accompanies the Festival Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences.


Sites of Transformation
A film directed by Łukasz Konopa
Thursday 13 October, 6 pm

The film was shot on location in Berlin, Gdańsk and Kiev; all three – cities  which symbolise a political and economic transformation. The political systems have changed, and so have the cities. A group of young journalists and activists from Germany, Ukraine and Poland is visiting the cities and becomes acquainted with the sites which have been revitalised. The  visitors meet those who have been trying to change the face of the ‘forgotten’ districts.


The Pulse of Art
A discussion about the book by Marta Smolińska, with Professor Wojciech Bałus
Wednesday 19 October, 6 pm

The Pulse of Art: About Selected Issues of Contemporary Art can be interpreted in different ways – treated as a source of information, but also as a sort of guide to contemporary music. The publication provides solid research about its time, and it is also a lively, distinctive narrative.

 

 

Nefarious Memes
Lecture by Magdalena Kamińska
Thursday 20 October, 6 pm

What is the shape of the contemporary Internet culture? What phenomena are the building blocks of its media landscape? Cyber gossip, auction websites, Internet slang, cyber-churches or fanfication are all phenomena which have become a part of our every day reality.

Magdalena Kamińska has taken them on board in her book Nefarious Memes: Twelve lectures about Internet culture.

 

 

Open Throne
Tuesday 25 October, 6 pm

The exhibition Open Throne: Contemporary Art Versus the Phenomenon of John Paul II  is meant to be a collection of narratives and objects related to spiritual amnesia, void and the fading away of last traces of the cult of John Paul II. The artists were interested in the informal ‘artistic’ circulation of the papal cult and related artefacts; or, rather, the very fact that, in parallel to the formal sphere, there has been another informal one. The exhibition has resulted in a book, produced by the team: Tadeusz Bartoś, Sarmen Beglarian, Sebastian Cichocki, Jagoda Hernik Spalińska and Roman Pawłowski. The publication has been edited by Agnieszka Tarasiuk.

 

 

Yugoslavia 1961-1973: The History of New Tendencies and the Bit International Magazine. 
Lecture by Darko Fritz
Wednesday 26 October, 6 pm 

The artists of New Tendencies functioned against the background of concrete art, constructivism, op-art and kinetic art. Furthermore, they were some of the first artists to start using the computer not only as a useful tool, but, rather, as a totally new medium of artistic activity. To get to know in depth the movement – which organised exhibitions and programme conferences and, since 1968, has published the Bit International magazine – will greatly aid understanding of the inspirations for contemporary art.

 

 

Not Geese: Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949
Launch of book by Piotr Rypson
Thursday 27 October, 6 pm

Not Geese is the first – such a broadly conceived –  attempt to reconstruct the process of shaping the contemporary graphic art in Poland. The book maps out areas of visual communication – its task is to enable the contemporary audience to visualise the idiom of images prevalent during the period examined and its transformations.
Hosted by: Ewa Satalecka