Tomorrow (Thursday 29 April) at 5 PM at 2 Wszystkich Świętych Square we invite you to see the material for the show of the AB Expedition Festival in the Amazon rain forest and to meet with Aldo Vargas-Tetmajer – lecturer of the Jagiellonian University, project curator and organiser.
The Amazonas Art Festival is the result of the work of the Strupek Art Group in the Amazon rain forest, which has no institutions, galleries or other exhibition spaces in the European sense. The concept is based on the idea of “elastic” curatorship.
The curator works “in the field”, using a concept prepared by the organisers – it sets off on expeditions to explore environments which the exhibitions are intended to reach.
Organised in co-operation with the East Art Foundation, the Amazon project is an impulse for the solution of the problem of colonialism, both cultural and ideological: European art is implemented in the context of the Amazon rain forest, where the artists present it to native peoples, which gives rise to a host of questions, and the artistic activities become a sort of experiment in communication.
Is the language in which art is expressed truly universal? What sort of sense does colonialism make? What do globalism and localism mean? How possible is the “appropriate” understanding of a work of art and does it matter? What purpose does European art serve in the rain forest?