PERORMANCE "BODY & EAST"
BY WLADYSLAW KAZMIERCZAK & EWA RYBSKA (Poland),
on May 17th, 2002. / 8 p.m.
at CUBA-CULTUR CENTRE, Achtermannstr. 12, D-48143 Münster, Germany.
PERFROMANCE "BODY &
EAST" is about the new experience
of the post-communist societies which aspire to join to the West World circle.
Performance has various pictures, icons, which show the “adapting” of the new
members to the Western civilization & globalization, pop culture and many
others aspects of life & culture of “the better
people”.
The dramatic political
changes occurring throughout East-Central Europe since the "Solidarity
Revolution" and one year later the fall of the Berlin Wall have created a free
but transitional state of uncertainty, spawning an essential questioning of the
human identity. This process of transformation and self-definition includes
critical assessment of both the Communist and pre-Communist past, reflective
analysis of the post-Communist present, and formulation of the strategies of
participation in the future.
W L A D Y S
L A W K A Z M I E R C Z A
K
http://www.kazmierczak.artist.pl
born
in 1951, lives
in Slupsk, Poland. Educated
at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow (M.A.). 1974 – 1979 actions on
streets and site specific spaces. In
1979 started with performance art. Over
150 performances in Poland, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany,
Great Britain, Hungary, Chech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Mexico, Indonesia, Switzerland and USA.
Director
and curator of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk, Poland.
Curator
and organiser of the performance art festivals in Poland. Curator
and organiser of the International Performance Art Festivals „Castle of
Imagination” in Bytow, Ustka, Slupsk, Sopot, Gdansk, Zielona Gora, Bielsko
Biala, Poland, 1993 - 2001. Author of essays on
performance art published in: NEW ART IN
POLAND “EXIT”,
Art Magazine On Line “Raster”
/ Poland,
Art Magazine On Line
„Hysterics“ / Poland,
Art Magazine “ARTeon” /
Poland,
Art Magazine “Inter Le Lieu” /
Quebec, Art
Magazine „Umelec“, Prague, Czech Rep. In 1997 started with duo
performances together with Ewa Rybska
E W A R Y B S K A
born
in 1958. Lives in Slupsk, Poland. Education:
College of Art and Design, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland. Coorganiser
of the International Performance Art Festivals „Castle of Imagination” in Bytow,
Ustka, Slupsk, Sopot, Gdansk, Poland, 1993 - 2001. The
main interest on a multi-media visual art.
Also
active in the initiation / administration of international artist lead projects,
such as exchange exhibitions, performance festivals and seminary, and arranging
exhibitions / visits for international artists to Poland. Since
1994 curator at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk,
Poland.
In 1997
started with performance art as an artist together with Wladyslaw
Kazmierczak. Performances in Slovakia,
Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Slovenia, Mexico, Indonesia,
Canada and Poland.