25.06.2010
ATTENTION! Letters to My Brother will fall on Krakow on Sunday
It will be an outstanding final to the 2nd ArtBoom Tauron Festival: this coming Sunday (27 June), Grzegorz Drozd’s project, Letters to My Brother, will be realised.
We remind you that initially the project was to take place yesterday, however, due to the rain hindering the start of the plane, we were forced to postpone its realisation.
We hope the weather does not ruin our plans this time. The plane will take off from the airport at 11 a.m. and should appear over Krakow’s Main Market around 11:30 a.m.
Grzegorz Drozd’s Letters to My Brother is one of the key projects of the 2nd Festival of Visual Arts, ArtBoom Tauron Festival in Krakow. The artist sent out invitations to prisoners in penitentiaries around Poland to write letters – letters to us, to an anonymous crowd. The impulse given by Drozd became an opportunity to pass on private, painful, sometimes even very intimate contents. The dramatically inhibited, or even unwanted due to serving a sentence, contact with family and loved ones, becomes a great tragedy for the isolated people. The unusual correspondence, which has been in creation for months in the scope of the project Letters to My Brother, will be sent out in a unique way: a plane will appear over the centre of Krakow, on Thursday (24 June) in the afternoon (between 3-4 p.m.). A million swirling letters will be released in one moment. A white cloud will arise over the city, which will slowly fall to the ground.
We remind you that initially the project was to take place yesterday, however, due to the rain hindering the start of the plane, we were forced to postpone its realisation.
We hope the weather does not ruin our plans this time. The plane will take off from the airport at 11 a.m. and should appear over Krakow’s Main Market around 11:30 a.m.
Grzegorz Drozd’s Letters to My Brother is one of the key projects of the 2nd Festival of Visual Arts, ArtBoom Tauron Festival in Krakow. The artist sent out invitations to prisoners in penitentiaries around Poland to write letters – letters to us, to an anonymous crowd. The impulse given by Drozd became an opportunity to pass on private, painful, sometimes even very intimate contents. The dramatically inhibited, or even unwanted due to serving a sentence, contact with family and loved ones, becomes a great tragedy for the isolated people. The unusual correspondence, which has been in creation for months in the scope of the project Letters to My Brother, will be sent out in a unique way: a plane will appear over the centre of Krakow, on Thursday (24 June) in the afternoon (between 3-4 p.m.). A million swirling letters will be released in one moment. A white cloud will arise over the city, which will slowly fall to the ground.
