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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
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