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STADIUM X - LIVE ART PROJECTS
http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?id=lr ahos||society&pid=14980
13:19:16 - 25/08/2009
AICA Armenia invites you to presentation by curator Joanna Warsza
(Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw: www.laura-palmer.pl)
The 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw was built in 1955 from the
rubble of a war-devastated capital, and was to preserve Communisms
good name for forty years. In the early 1990s it fell into ruin,
being revived by Vietnamese and Russian traders, pioneers of
capitalism. Since then the Stadium and the open-air market surrounding
it have become an Asian town, a primeval garden, a realm of discount
shopping, a storehouse of biographies and urban legends, a spontaneous
piece of Land-Art, or a work camp for archaeologists and botanists. The
heterotopic logic of the place and its long-standing (non-)presence
in the middle of Warsaw, inspired Joanna Warszas curated series of
live art projects The Finissage of Stadium X and the related reader,
Stadium X A Place That Never Was (published by Ha!art and Bec Zmiana
Foundation).
A Trip to Asia: An Acoustic Walk Around the Vietnamese Sector of
the 10 th-Anniversary Stadium by Anna Gajewska, Joanna Warsza and
Ngo Van Tuong (2006); Boniek!, a one-man re-enactment of the 1982
Poland-Belgium football match by Massimo Furlan, with commentary by
Tomasz Zimoch (2007); or Radio Stadion Broadcasts by Radio Simulator
and backyardradio (2008) were subjective excursions undertaken by
artists into the reality of a Stadium no longer extant. The projects,
of a participative and semi-documentary nature, touched upon issues
of memory, deterioration, or the problematic exoticism of the place.
The Art School of Mekhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex 27 th of
August, at 7pm
http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?id=lr ahos||society&pid=14980
13:19:16 - 25/08/2009
AICA Armenia invites you to presentation by curator Joanna Warsza
(Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw: www.laura-palmer.pl)
The 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw was built in 1955 from the
rubble of a war-devastated capital, and was to preserve Communisms
good name for forty years. In the early 1990s it fell into ruin,
being revived by Vietnamese and Russian traders, pioneers of
capitalism. Since then the Stadium and the open-air market surrounding
it have become an Asian town, a primeval garden, a realm of discount
shopping, a storehouse of biographies and urban legends, a spontaneous
piece of Land-Art, or a work camp for archaeologists and botanists. The
heterotopic logic of the place and its long-standing (non-)presence
in the middle of Warsaw, inspired Joanna Warszas curated series of
live art projects The Finissage of Stadium X and the related reader,
Stadium X A Place That Never Was (published by Ha!art and Bec Zmiana
Foundation).
A Trip to Asia: An Acoustic Walk Around the Vietnamese Sector of
the 10 th-Anniversary Stadium by Anna Gajewska, Joanna Warsza and
Ngo Van Tuong (2006); Boniek!, a one-man re-enactment of the 1982
Poland-Belgium football match by Massimo Furlan, with commentary by
Tomasz Zimoch (2007); or Radio Stadion Broadcasts by Radio Simulator
and backyardradio (2008) were subjective excursions undertaken by
artists into the reality of a Stadium no longer extant. The projects,
of a participative and semi-documentary nature, touched upon issues
of memory, deterioration, or the problematic exoticism of the place.
The Art School of Mekhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex 27 th of
August, at 7pm