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Warsaw 2006

Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms
and The Places Where They Live

August 25th until September 10th

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Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge
and Non-Knowledge II

ALL OVER THE CITY
26 AUGUST & 2 SEPTEMBER
Choose one of 66 experts, and book a 1 or 2 hour talk. You will meet your expert in a small group with 5 participants of the Mobile Academy. Expert meetings will be held all over town: in cafés, hotels, galleries, artists' studios, cinemas, apartments, in the street, or on the Underground. Book an expert talk for 1 zloty at the TR box office, and you will be told where to go. The ghostly topics discussed during Blackmarket II concern memory, history and identity, or simply the expert's field of work.

Anna Baumgart
visual artist, working with sculpture and video, interested in contemporary women, their traumas and identity
26.08. 15-17:00
Trance of a little brain - or Goodnight let the bedbugs bite. Contemplative workshop on dreams and lullabies

Sarmen Beglarian
curator, interested in alternative curatorial stategies versus censorship, works at the Piotr Nowicki Galery
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Invisible shows. Exhibitions in a time of censorship

Rafał Betlejewski [Betlej]
enterpreneur, activist, author of social and artistic projects in non-artistic spaces
26.08. 11-12:00 (father)
..........15-17:00 (writer)
02.09. 11-12:00 (manager)
..........15-17:00 (rockman)
Betlej acts Betlej. Four faces, four places. Workshops in constructing the self

Marek Beylin
journalist, commentator, "Gazeta Wyborcza", specialises in post-war history
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Memory

Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson
philosopher, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and American Studies Center, Warsaw University
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

The Uncanny. Ghosts, Spectres, and Demons in Sigmund Freud

Agnieszka Brzeźańska
visual artist, photographer and painter, interested in apocalypse and nihilism
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
A talk on the project Is nothing not enough?

Bogna Burska
visual artist, working with photography, video and painting, activist and co-founder of Warsaw Artists Action
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

What can't be seen. Bloody art - bloody stories

Ewa Charkiewicz
activist and academic researcher, interested in theories of power, ecology, feminism and new social movements
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Conservatives and neoliberals: cosy bedfellows. Strong state, über-market and the nation as a community of blood, race and religion

Dr Magdalena Chechlińska
Department of Immunology, Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Cancer cell - horrifying and intriguing

Oskar Dawicki
performer, artist, author of subversive projects examining alternative realities
02.09. 15-17.00
Active Absence

Kuba Dąbrowski
photographer and sociologist, "Przekrój" Magazine, author of movies, records and texts
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

The first person perspective in photography - from Jacques Henri Lartigue to photo blogs

Jacek Dominiczak
architect, lecturer and contributor to Architecture + Dialog Studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Hidden Codes: The Dialogical Aspects of City Spaces

Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz
author of the graphic novels and comic books & Grzegorz Janusz, author and scriptwriter & Szymon Holcman, translator and comic book critic
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Esencja - a comic book workshop

Jan Gorski
mathematician and Internet consultant, Ph.D candidate at Warsaw University and Toulouse III University, focuses on abstract spaces of mathematics
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Space - can we touch multi-dimensional mathematical objects? How to imagine the Web-universe as a real space using the experience of mathematicians

Maciej "Magura" Góralski
music journalist, ethnopunk musician, poet, DJ and Buddhist scholar
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Spirits of the waters, rulers of the waves and subconscious in India, Tibet and Poland

Anka Grupińska
writer, journalist, director of the oral history project "Witness of the Jewish Century" in Poland
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Invisible Jews Around

Daniel Heer
artist, author of documentaries and video, examining national and cultural stereotypes
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Switzerland and the ghosts of cleanliness, punctuality and discipline between the hours of 12 midday and 1pm.

Zuzanna Janin
visual artist, working with sculpture and performative media, founder of the independent art space lokal_30
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Beeing absent/present, meaning where? A talk on the project I've Seen My Death

Dorota Jarecka
art critic and art historian, "Gazeta Wyborcza", interested in 20th century art
02.09. 15-17:00
Art and politics. A talk on topical and forgotten problems of the 1930's in Poland

Kinga Kiełczyńska [Kinga]
visual artist and VJ, author of video-music performances, films and videoclips
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

A Future Vision of Video Art

Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz
anthropologist, professor and director of the Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University
02.09. 15-17:00
The Rites of Forefathers' Eve. The Dead Feast's Theatre

Tomek Kozak
artist, author of films, sculptures, texts, interested in philosophy and literature
02.09. 15-17:00
Indian Poland under the flag of the Swastika? - the cultural vision and philosophy of Tadeusz Micinski

Ania Kuczyńska
fashion designer, interested in alternative use of materials and their iconography in contemporary culture
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Fashion and anti-fashion. Alternative prospects of clothes design and its presentation

Zofia Kulik
artist, working with photography, collages, installations, represented Poland at the 1997 Venice Biennial
26.08. 15-17:00
My Home - My Observatory. On art and human archives

Dr Iwona Kurz
culture historian, critic, lecturer at Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Ghosts of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

Agnieszka Lasota
designer, author of interiors, furniture, household and conceptual objects
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
The memory of furniture. A talk on design

Dr Adam Lipszyc
philosopher, critic, translator, writer, lecturer at Polish Academy of Sciences
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 5-17:00

Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and the Invisible Jewish Tradition

Jaroslaw Lipszyc
journalist, poet, Copyleft Movement and Creative Commons Poland activist
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Freedom in the age of digital networks

Przemyslaw Łukasik & Łukasz Zagała
architects, founders of Medusa Group, Gliwice - a cross-disciplinary studio
26.08. 15-17:00
Traces, holes and the new context in urban space

Ewa Majewska
philosopher, critic, focused on post- -Marxist, feminist and alterglobalist issues, co-founder of the group "Syreny"
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Philosophical conceptualisations of the idea of the family

Adam Mazur
art historian and art critic, editor of "Obieg" Magazine, works at CCA Ujazdowski Castle
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30 /
15-17:00

New Documentalists. Polish Realities as Seen from the Perspective of Castle's Cellars

Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, human rights activist, artistic director of Migrator Theatre
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

How To Touch Ghosts

Magdalena Mosiewicz
Co-Chair of The Polish Green Party "Zieloni 2004"
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Protest movements now

Luiza Nader
art historian, lecturer at the Department of Art History, Warsaw University, focuses on conceptual art
02.09. 15-17:00
Conceptual art and memory. Remarks on the process of historicization and the ethics of failure

Agata Passent
journalist, columnist, writer, interested in Warsaw history and architecture
02.09. 15-17:00
To Build or to Rebuild the City? Architects' Dilemmas in the Social Realist Warsaw

Dr Piotr Paziński
literary critic, translator, philosopher, editor of "Midrasz" Jewish Monthly Magazine
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

Literary Journey - James Joyce's Ulysses as a City Novel

Krystyna Piotrowska
artist, curator of the "Próźna Street" project for "Singer's Warsaw", a Festival of Jewish Culture
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
Prózna street - the street that doesn't exist. A talk on the former Jewish district in Warsaw

Paweł Polit
art critic, curator at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, lecturer at the American Studies Centre, Warsaw University
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
Luminous Encounter. Roland Barthes' Theory of Photography and Contemporary American Art

Jacek Poniedzialek
theatre and film actor, translator of theatre plays
02.09. 15-17:00
Human Cosmos

Bartłomiej Reszuta
culture historian, involved in semantic field analysis, governmentality issues, Americanization and globalization

26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

From Oldspeak to Rap - A Linguistic Odyssey nto the Heart of Darkness


Dr Łukasz Ronduda
art critic, curator of new media at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, lecturer at Warsaw School of Social Psychology
02.09. 15-17:00
Imagination in artistic strategies of contemporary art

Prof. Zofia Rosińska
philosopher, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Warsaw University, specialises in aesthetics and psychology of culture
26.08. 15-17:00
Melancholy and Memory

Maria Sadowska
singer, musician and film director
02.09. 11-12:30
Searching for the spirit in an electro sound system

Wilhelm Sasnal
artist, painter, author of films, focused on different aspects of realism
26.08. 15-17:00
Psychodelia

Jadwiga Sawicka
visual artist, interested in the outer layers of things and material aspects of mass culture artefacts
26.08. 15-17:00
Please, misuse, and misunderstand

Slawomir Sierakowski
Editor-in-Chief of "Krytyka Polityczna" Magazine, commentator, political activist
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Invisible Borders of Freedom and Censorship

Tomasz Sikorski
artist, associate professor at Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódż and the Świętokrzyska Academy in Kielce
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

The Mysteries of Warsaw Graffiti

Jan Simon
artist, interested in catastrophical motifs in mass culture, author of "agressive" art works and objects
2.09. 15-17:00
How to open locks with improvised tools

Jacek Skolimowski
music journalist, radio moderator, DJ, cooperated with Jazzradio, Radiostacja, Radio Copernicus
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30

What did Konstantin Raudive hear on the radio? On Electronic Voice Phenomena and radio-ghostbusters

Jaroslaw Marek Spychala
philosopher, founder of LEGO-LOGOS Project of Philosophical Education
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

What did Tales see in heaven? Workshop in ancient philosophy with use of LEGO bricks

Jacek Staniszewski
musician and journalist, founder-member of NEUROBOT multimedia collective
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Remastering the Dead: Communication With Other Side In Contemporary Sound Art Practice

Jarosław Suchan
Director of Museum of Art in Lódz, art historian and curator, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

Invisible Gallery

Robert Szczerbowski
conceptual artist, works with text, objects, video and sound, uses mystifications as scientific paradigms
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

On the perfect illusion. Acoustic simulacra

Małgorzata Szumowska
film director, author of documentaries and feature films, member of the European Film Academy
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
Reality and fiction in documentary films and everyday life

Aneta Szyłak
curator and art critic, co-founder and director of the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk
26.08. 15-17:00
What haunts in art: past, history, repetition

Lech Szymborski
architect, co-author of Świątynia Opatrzności (Temple of Providence) project, currently under construction
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
The Temple of Providence 1794-2006. On the realisation, construction and 200 year history of an unfinished Catholic patriotic temple

Ewa Toniak
feminist art critic and art historian, lecturer at Gender Studies, Warsaw University
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
The unspoken and unseen. Trauma and memory in the art of some contemporary Polish women artists

Jan Topolski
musicologist, music critic, editor-in-chief of music quarterly magazine "Glissando"
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
Sound spectres in contemporary music. How to see, catch and use them

Agnieszka Trzos
film director, author of documentaries and feature films, TV series and screenplays
26.08. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
02.09. 11-12:00 /12:30-13:30

Creation of film as a process of communication with the ghosts of the universe

Wojtek Wieteska
photographer, focused on documentary and artistic photography, lecturer at Film School in Łódż
26.08. 15-17:00
Before and after the 'decisive moment'. Photography at the turn of century

Dr Marta Wrzosek
biologist and mycologist, Department of Plants Systematics and Geography, Warsaw University
02.09. 11-12:00 / 12:30-13:30
Hallucinogenic mushrooms. Their usage, shamanic traditions and spiritual experience

Artur Zmijewski
artist, makes films examining the social and philosophical aspects of disability, opportunism and evil, represented Poland at the 2005 Venice Biennial
26.08. 15-17:00
02.09. 15-17:00

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