19.08.2011
Kuśmirowski, Dziadkiewicz and Surowiec in Solidarność Camp
Robert Kuśmirowski, Roman Dziadkiewicz and Łukasz Surowiec will take part in the Solidarność Camp project prepared by Nowy Teatr in Warsaw and the Wyspa Art Institute/Wyspa Progress Foundation in Gdańsk. During the display of the project in Kiev, a text by Paweł Demirski called Diamenty to węgiel, który wziął się do roboty (Diamonds are coal which got down to work) will be read. It is worth remembering that Kuśmirowski, Dziadkiewicz and Surowiec have all been guests of the ArtBoom Festival and Demirski has participated in the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival.
Solidarność (Solidarity) Camp is an artistic space comprised of five adapted shipyard ‘worker’s huts’ converted into exhibition areas for visual installations, meetings, debates, lectures and concerts held throughout the duration of the project. As we can see on the website of the Alternativa anti-festival, which Solidarność Camp is part of, ready-made objects from the Gdansk Shipyard are selected by artist Grzegorz Klaman and modified in cooperation with shipyard workers. The items then go on a tour and their triviality and iconicity, combined in an unusual way, leave their own immediate context and take the shipyard myth far beyond its origins, subjecting it to critical discussion. Individual buildings and their surroundings are a place of intervention for the artists, performers, actors and intellectuals. Each stop along the route of this mobile camp is a chance to meet and involve local participants. The camp is a place of visual installations, screenings, meetings and debates, a place of presentations and political interventions. But it will also accept secrets, hide and seek, conspiring, reading, being together and eating. Each hut will have a different function. In one of them, Grzegorz Klaman will present a multimedia presentation about the political and historical context of the workers’ huts, which will make up the camp’s installation. Thanks to smartphone apps, the visitor will be led through the exhibition in a multimedia-intensive and interactive way. The second hut will become a space for Soliterność – an installation by Marek Sobczyk, an exhibition filled with plastic panels covered with national symbols and icons, combined with a screening of a film dedicated to the betrayal of the revolutionary ideals. The third hut will be the scene of the activities of Polish artists residing in cities, which will be visited by Zorka Wollny in Gdansk, Robert Kuśmirowski in Kiev, Roman Dziadkiewicz in Brussels, Elżbieta Jabłońska in Madrid and Łukasz Surowiec in Warsaw. The forth hut is a digital library which serves as a space of changing sound and video projections. The fifth is a reading room of books about the project and the people and organisations participating.
Solidarność Camp will consist of around 5-8 days in the Gdansk Shipyard, Kiev, Brussels and Madrid.
An important part of the particular instalments of the Solidarność Camp is the inauguration lecture, delivered by the most outstanding figures of contemporary intellectual life, whose ideas concern today’s forms of the Solidarity cause.
Solidarność Camp will be full of new Polish drama which is a good reflection of the transition process experienced by Poland on its way from Solidarity to the European Union. Among the three texts selected for this purpose is Diamenty to węgiel, który wziął się do roboty (Diamonds are coal which got down to work) by Paweł Demirski, which will be read in Kiev. It is worth remembering that last year’s GRAND PRIX in the Best show category at the 3rd Divine Comedy Theatre Festival was received by Demirski and Monika Strzępka – authors of Był sobie Andrzej Andrzej Andrzej i Andrzej (There was Andrzej Andrzej Andrzej and Andrzej).
Solidarność Camp itinerary:
Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, former Gdańsk Shipyard grounds – 26/08 – 31/08/2011
Kiev – 07/09 – 11/09/2011
Brussels – 23/09 – 01/10/2011
Madrid – 11/10 – 20/10/2011
Solidarność (Solidarity) Camp is an artistic space comprised of five adapted shipyard ‘worker’s huts’ converted into exhibition areas for visual installations, meetings, debates, lectures and concerts held throughout the duration of the project. As we can see on the website of the Alternativa anti-festival, which Solidarność Camp is part of, ready-made objects from the Gdansk Shipyard are selected by artist Grzegorz Klaman and modified in cooperation with shipyard workers. The items then go on a tour and their triviality and iconicity, combined in an unusual way, leave their own immediate context and take the shipyard myth far beyond its origins, subjecting it to critical discussion. Individual buildings and their surroundings are a place of intervention for the artists, performers, actors and intellectuals. Each stop along the route of this mobile camp is a chance to meet and involve local participants. The camp is a place of visual installations, screenings, meetings and debates, a place of presentations and political interventions. But it will also accept secrets, hide and seek, conspiring, reading, being together and eating. Each hut will have a different function. In one of them, Grzegorz Klaman will present a multimedia presentation about the political and historical context of the workers’ huts, which will make up the camp’s installation. Thanks to smartphone apps, the visitor will be led through the exhibition in a multimedia-intensive and interactive way. The second hut will become a space for Soliterność – an installation by Marek Sobczyk, an exhibition filled with plastic panels covered with national symbols and icons, combined with a screening of a film dedicated to the betrayal of the revolutionary ideals. The third hut will be the scene of the activities of Polish artists residing in cities, which will be visited by Zorka Wollny in Gdansk, Robert Kuśmirowski in Kiev, Roman Dziadkiewicz in Brussels, Elżbieta Jabłońska in Madrid and Łukasz Surowiec in Warsaw. The forth hut is a digital library which serves as a space of changing sound and video projections. The fifth is a reading room of books about the project and the people and organisations participating.
Solidarność Camp will consist of around 5-8 days in the Gdansk Shipyard, Kiev, Brussels and Madrid.
An important part of the particular instalments of the Solidarność Camp is the inauguration lecture, delivered by the most outstanding figures of contemporary intellectual life, whose ideas concern today’s forms of the Solidarity cause.
Solidarność Camp will be full of new Polish drama which is a good reflection of the transition process experienced by Poland on its way from Solidarity to the European Union. Among the three texts selected for this purpose is Diamenty to węgiel, który wziął się do roboty (Diamonds are coal which got down to work) by Paweł Demirski, which will be read in Kiev. It is worth remembering that last year’s GRAND PRIX in the Best show category at the 3rd Divine Comedy Theatre Festival was received by Demirski and Monika Strzępka – authors of Był sobie Andrzej Andrzej Andrzej i Andrzej (There was Andrzej Andrzej Andrzej and Andrzej).
Solidarność Camp itinerary:
Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, former Gdańsk Shipyard grounds – 26/08 – 31/08/2011
Kiev – 07/09 – 11/09/2011
Brussels – 23/09 – 01/10/2011
Madrid – 11/10 – 20/10/2011
