LECTURES
Big Money in Wrocław. The history of fortunes in the old Breslau / moderator: Beard of Breslau / Saturday / noon / debate room
Tadeusz Kantor’s Multipart – today. The story and the legend / moderator: Lech Stangret / Tuesday / 5pm / debate room
In the years 1970–1971, Tadeusz Kantor carried out an artistic action titled Multipart at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. The artist created a form of painting that was to be subject to the buyer-collector’s interference. The collector could do almost anything with the white, crushed umbrella embedded in the white canvas. In other words, the buyer was supposed to destroy the painting in the form given to it by Kantor. The lecture will pose questions about the topicality of Kantor’s action and its results. It will also be an attempt to find out if Kantor succeeded in creating an artwork whose value escapes commerciality.
DEBATES
The new deals of economics and reception. On capital-related threads in the newest issue of “Glissando” magazine #33-34, devoted to Chinese sound cultures and the corporeal turn in music / moderator: Jan Topolski / participants: Dariusz Brzostek, Agata Janikowska, Patryk Lichota / Saturday / 6 PM / debate room
The three starting points will be provided by the discussants: Dariusz Brzostek, managing
editor of # 34 (China), will introduce the subject of the emerging economic and cultural powers, showing its consequences for the global order, especially in the record industry. Agata Janikowska, author of #33 (corporeality), will outline her multi-sensory approach to experiencing music through the body on the example of pieces by Tan Dun, a leading Chinese-American composer. Patryk Lichota, whose work Clinks of Monetization is shown during SURVIVAL, will talk about how the global economy can be sonified in a temple of capitalism in a barely perceptible way. East meets West, Money meets Music, who records what, who and how listens to it, and a hundred other questions.
On the connections between art and economy in public space/ moderator: Ewa Pluta (The City Museum of Wrocław) / participants: Jacek Sosnowski (Dom Development City Art Foundation), Grażyna Adamczyk-Arns (Wrocławska Rewitalizacja), Christiane Thalgott, Karina Marusińska / Tuesday / 7 PM / debate room
Practically since cities began to exist, buildings and decorations with artistic value have been an integral part of the cityscape. For a relatively short time, however, art has been identified as one of the elements influencing the commercial success of newly designed public spaces. During the debate we will think whether it is economically justifiable to take art out of galleries and into the city space, whether its common presence and accessibility influences the profitability of a construction project, the life of its inhabitants or the decision of other people to visit places where art is – in residential districts, among office buildings or in public squares and boulevards.
Art and Capital / moderator: Barbara Banaś (The National Museum in Wrocław) /
participants: Piotr Krupa (Krupa Gallery), Jacek Łozowski, Sylwia Świsłocka-Karwot
(Zachęta Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine), Magdalena Mielnicka (mia Art Gallery), Jacek Sosnowski (Propaganda gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weekend) /
Sunday / 5 PM / debate room
Collecting, which comes from the Latin word collectio (set, collection), describes the
intentional process of accumulating objects according to a predetermined key. Although
almost anything can become the focus of a collection, since antiquity artworks have been
deemed the most prestigious collector’s items. Acquiring artworks has always functioned as an investment intended to multiply economic capital, but also – or perhaps primarily – the cultural one. For a number of years financial experts have identified art as one of the safest stores of value. However, it mostly applies to old art. What about contemporary art? Is it also worth investing in? Can private collections of contemporary art one day evolve into public museums and galleries, similar to collections of old masterpieces?
TOURS AND WALKS
Curator-led tours
Saturday / 3 PM
Sunday / 3 PM
Sunday / 7 PM – tour in English
start: courtyard
Tours of the exhibition shown as part of the 16 th edition of SURVIVAL will be led by
curators and artists.
Walk in the Royal Palace combined with a walk in the Wallenberg-Pachaly palace / guide: Ewa Pluta (The City Museum of Wrocław) / Sunday / noon /
/ start: Royal Palace courtyard, ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 35
We will talk about the history and life of Wrocław’s aristocrats, especially in two residential palaces: the Royal Palace and the Wallenberg-Pachaly palace.
Residences of Wrocław / guide: Ewa Pluta (The City Museum of Wrocław) / Monday / 3 PM start: Ofiar Oświęcimskich Street, Rybisch’s house
A tour of Wrocław focusing on the most interesting examples of residential architecture of the old Breslau, including Rybisch’s House, the Oppenheims’ tenement, the Wallenberg-Pachaly palace, the Royal Palace and the Ballestrems’ palace.
FILM SCREENINGS: NEW HORIZONS AT SURVIVAL ART REVIEW
Selfcriticism of a Bourgeois Dog / dir. Julian Radlmaier
Germany 2017 / 99’ subtitles: Polish
Monday / 6 PM
debate room
The confession of a bourgeois dog, an unemployed, leftist hipster director about how
revolutionary zeal, the torment of physical work, and unrequited love led him to transform into a quadruped (with a philosophical bent). Julian, ironically played by Radlmaier himself, falls unhappily in love with a friend. In order to win her favor, he resorts to one of the most hackneyed ways to pick up a woman and offers her a role in a film. To his amazement, it turns out that not only is she a leftist as well, but she is willing, in the name of revolutionary ideals, to go work with him on a state-funded farm. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a better setting for a communist fairy tale, which is what Julian’s film is supposed to be. The only problem comes about when he meets the proletarians working on the farm. Radlmaier&grotesque comedy offers an ironic voice in the discussion about political art and its usefulness as a tool for social change. With visual references to Werner Schroeter's theatrical films and a nod to Rossellini and Italian neorealism. Prepared by:Ewa Szabłowska
The Reunion (Återträffen ) / dir. Anna Odell
Sweden / 2013 / subtitles: Polish
Monday / 8 PM
debate room
This multilayered film, which is part feature, part documentary, and part performance art, is known for the controversial actions of Swedish artist Anna Odell. In 2009, Odell ended up in a psychiatric hospital after trying to jump off a bridge. It turned out that her suicide attempt was a performance that divided not only critics but also society. Her film debut is no less controversial. Odell has constructed a situation that, while completely fictional, is based on real events. Bullied by her peers, she suffered a trauma in school that has had an adverse impact on her later in life. As her school reunion grows near, she decides to confront those who tortured her, but, to her surprise, she discovers that the reunion has already taken place and that she was not invited. The film is a reconstruction of the reunion but with her in attendance. But that is just half the project. The second half consists of her calling up her former classmates and recording their reactions during a presentation of the film.
Wanderers / dir. Piotr Bartos, Agata Bartos
Poland / 2018
Monday / 9.30 PM
debate room
The film was made at the Chemistry Auditorium of Wrocław University – the venue for last year’s edition of the SURVIVAL Art Review. Savings in ports at the world's end can be seen with the naked eye, unskilled workers can be heard with the naked ear. That’s nothing, what matters most to a traveller is to see the light in the crack and not be afraid.
