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Rosler Martha, curator: Pawełek KajaRosler Martha Since the 1960s works by Martha Rosler have been one of key references in art, which is much more than pure art and tries to engage in the discourse on the contemporary world, especially in its most problematic issues. The following works, canonical as part of the art of the second half of the 20th century: Bringing the War Home, Semiotics of the Kitchen and The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems are critical of policy matters and the issues of the social status quo, referring directly to the war in Vietnam, the problem of women’s rights and reflection of social inequalities and problems in the image of the city. The artist has been implementing her own actions for many years now, but she also organises group projects, writes and gives lectures at many universities and in different art institutions in the whole world. In 2011 Martha Rosler is an artist-in-residence at the The Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD. Curator: Pawełek Kaja  Art historian and curator. She graduated from art history at the Jagiellonian University, also studied art history for one year at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She worked on the following projects: Festival of Young Polish Art and Culture “TERrA POLSKA!“ (Berlin, 2004), Art Biennale in Łódź (2005), the Inventing/Experimenting/Doubting Concept and Ideas international workshop and seminar as part of the Mobile Academy Warsaw (2006). From 2004-2005 she worked on projects presenting achievements of young Polish artists from the field of visual arts, music and film in Stuttgart, as part of the Robert Bosch foundation programme for young culture managers from Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked in the Zamek Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre since 2005. She has worked, also as a curator and co-curator, on many individual and group exhibitions, such as the Project for Narrogin public project (together with Jakub Szczęsny, Western Australia, 2011) a group exhibition Diverçity. Learning from Istanbul (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2010), Yoko Ono Fly (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2008), public project Dotleniacz Joanny Rajkowskiej (plac Grzybowski, Warsaw 2007), Karol Radziszewski’s Marios DIK exhibition (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2008), Przegląd Sztuki w Ekstremalnych Warunkach Survival 06 (Wrocław, 2008), the Widok project with Anna Okrasko and Nicolas Sanchez (Witryna, Warsaw, 2008). The curator of the Eksterytoria. W poszukiwaniu momentów wspólnoty project (Komuna Otwock, Warsaw 2009) and the Stand by me public project by office for subversive architecture (Karsten Huneck, Bernd Truempler, Komuna Otwock, Warsaw, 2010). She took part in the Art and Research in the Public Sphere seminar (Kishinev, Moldova, 2010), curator workshop organised by Pro Helvetia, (Zurich, Switzerland, 2008), a course for young Polish curators – Course for European Contemporary Art Curators, Fondazione Ratti (Milan, Italy, 2007). She was the editor of the following publications: Jakub Szczęsny. Wyspa. Synchronizacja (Bęc Zmiana Foundation, 2009), Rooted Design for Routed Living (a-I-r laboratory CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2010), Dotleniacz. Obieg – Reader (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2010). Author of many reviews, interviews and texts in catalogues and publications dedicated to individual artists and phenomena in contemporary art. She has regularly cooperated with the Architektura & Biznes magazine, publishes reviews, texts on latest architectural achievements and interviews with architects and artists, as well as theoreticians. She is interested in interdisciplinary combinations of visual arts, architecture and public interventions. |
WUR: If You Lived Here… Revisited The If You Lived Here… project implemented by the artist together with Dia Art Foundation in New York from 1989-1991, whose summary is a book entitled If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: A Project by Martha Rosler, is a very important comment in a discussion on the role of artists in art institutions, as well as the possibility of their participation in and real influence on political and social reality. A three-part exhibition and a project dealt with such matters as housing, homelessness, gentrification and ongoing privatisation of the public sector, as observed in New York.  Return to the project created 20 years ago in a seemingly completely different cultural and historic context, in the USA of the decline of the conservative rule of Ronald Reagan, seems now particularly justified. As part of the festival of art in the public space and current discussions concerning participation and actions outside the framework of the artistic system, return to already historic practices and tested strategies – as well as their results, in the long run – is a necessary point of reference and a chance of critical revision of the current status of the art engage. What is more, the project structure suggested by Martha Rosler – based on multithreaded, processual work, participation of architects, urban planners, researchers and other specialists, involvement of non-artistic audience, inclusion of publication as another platform of communication, development of the projects and departure from the role of an artist as a creator only (today we would call it the artist – curator) – seems, from the current perspective, a prototypical model for activity of artists, curators and progressive institutions of contemporary art.  Lecture in English Pictures: Weronika Szmuc |
11/06/2011
18:30 WUR: If You Lived Here… Revisited
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