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Faus Pau, curator: Pawełek KajaFaus Pau  An architect and visual artist examining both physical and emotional forms of current city life in order to activate autonomous and subjective interpretations of behaviour in a city. In his works he uses locally applied modi operandi, because he is convinced that only with the help of knowledge on everyday life practices (with implied forms of conscious or unconscious resistance) can we understand the unique special qualities of every city. He translates his architectural experiences in the artistic sphere into permanent installations based on procedural methodologies and practices of auto construction. He has created many projects and workshops in Europe and South America. He graduated from architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, lectured on architecture in w Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallès w Sant Cugat del Vallès (2010), and was a member of an interdisciplinary research group Osservatorio Nomade/Stalker (2005-2010). 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: lecture: Urban approaches: Documenting, Interacting and SettlingOn the 22nd of June, on Wednesday, Pau Faus talked about his previous projects, including: We Can Xalant – a laboratory of nomadic architecture and auto construction used in order to interpret the Tadashi Kawamata pavilion located in the courtyard of the Madrid art centre and to construct a mobile unit as the gallery pavilion; Taller de Juegos – workshop held on playgrounds run together with different institutions and local societies in the Luis Piedrabuena neighbourhood in Buenos Aires; the Canondrom project in Barcelona, examining relations between existing and historic, modernist architecture and the modern city. The presentation and discussion with the artist was a part of the city examination strategies’ review, creation of new, grass-roots ways of intervention and change of perspective based on use of existing resources and local know-how, as well as inhabitants’ experience. Lecture in English WUR: Krakow - KrakowOn Thursday, the 23rd of June the artist inviteed you to take part in a several hours long walking excursion Kraków>Kraków, the route of which ran from the Balice Airport, situated around 10 km from the city centre, to the Kraków Główny railway station. The two places are the contemporary gates, through which tourist arrive at the city and which mark the moment of arrival in Krakow. Pau Faus reversed the order by combining the two places as points of the beginning and end of a tour, he proposed leaving the airport and crossing the borders of the city by foot. It was a kind of an anti-tourist excursion based on joint experience including another part of the city. At the same time it was a return to the old way of transport (although it is still practiced in the form of pilgrimages, marathons, etc.) and feeling/mapping of space and time. duration: approx 8-9 hours Pau Faus was in Poland at the invitation of the artistic residences program of a-i-r laboratory CSW Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.  Pau Faus, Protesis Prat  Pau Faus, Co-Habitaciones |
22/06/2011
18:30 WUR: lecture: Urban approaches: Documenting, Interacting and Settling
23/06/2011
09:00 WUR: Krakow - Krakow
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