Newborn Talk with WOJTEK MARKOWSKI With the team of Polski Theater in the underground we streamed 360-degree video from the container where actors performed Lady Macbeth. The audience could see the play live through a window, but some of them were standing there with their phones anyway
I Had to Learn Spanish to Study the Aztecs Talk with David Damrosch In my department here at Harvard, it used to be assumed years ago that if you taught a work in French, you’d bring it in the original. Nowadays, you can’t assume that every comparatist even knows French. We may have someone from China who is doing four other languages. You just can’t assume a single set of common languages anymore.
Go Fuck Yourself Talk with Carolee Schneemann Making love with my partner was a profound inspiration for ‘Fuses’. We focused on sexual erotic energy of love making. I wanted to be able to visualize what I felt within fucking – ‘Life Book’ exhibition in WRO Art Center until February 16
BOREDOM: Time Out of Order Talk with Poprzęcka, Radziszewski, Szczawińska ‘Boredom is one of many techniques intended to change time, space, reception, quantity.’ A talk on boredom in art and boredom in creation
Divine Kraków, Un-Divine Comedy Talk with Oliver Frljić You cannot use somebody who was trying to transgress social norms with his theatrical work to determine norms that must not be transgressed – Oliver Frljić
Kronos. Personal accounting Talk with Jarzębski, Suchanow, Gombrowicz There’s a basic difference between the ‘Diary’ and ‘Kronos’. The ‘Diary’ is something that is created by the author. ‘Kronos’ is something that writes itself
Szapocznikow in America Talk with Cornelia Butler You don’t often find a body of work that’s twenty years long that can sustain the range of really sophisticated interpretation that was brought to bear on it – says MoMa curator Cornelia Butler of their Szapocznikow retrospective open till 28 January 2013
Caucasian Bazaar Talk with SLAVS and TATARS Our work is transnational. We act like mediators or even post-national-mediators. We don’t belong to a single nation – we are intellectually and affectionately as Russian, as we are Polish, Iranian or American
Magik Drops Out of Sight Talk with Leszek Dawid I was anxious to tell a story which could be followed by someone completely alien to that local context. We still have to see if I succeeded – says the director of ‘You Are God’
Ryszard Kapuściński. A Life Talk with Artur Domosławski Biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century is now available in English. ‘Where does journalism end and literature begin?’ Artur Domosławski at the Frontline Club
Diary Revisited Talk with Allen J. Kuharski Gombrowicz uses his own idiosyncratic terms like ‘maturity’, ‘immaturity’, ‘superiority’, ‘inferiority’, ‘form’. The index almost killed me. I would say it’s like annotating Nietzsche, with the level of it
I Don’t Do Street Art Talk with Krystian Truth Czaplicki The authorities decided that styrofoam beams can’t just lie there without anyone around because they constitute a threat to public security – stories of art in public space by Krystian Truth Czaplicki
CRAFTSMEN OF CULTURE:The Show Must go On Talk with Teresa Krasnodębska Half an hour before a premiere I paint my nails. Some elegant colour, no greens or dots. This particular activity requires me to be absolutely calm – interview with a stage manager at the National Opera in Warsaw
CRAFTSMEN OF CULTURE:No More Overproduction Talk with Jakub Antosz I wasn’t really planning on getting involved with artists. I was a craftsman, but I felt like a partner in crime. – interview with a technical specialist
There is No Single Mainstream Talk with Wojtek Ziemilski Look around – nowadays even ads for shoes are often bolder than the so-called alternative. The desire for something new and vivid is neither alternative, strange nor unattainable. – Wojtek Ziemilski talks about his Lisbon expierience, going back to Poland and phantom phone vibrations
The Only Thing Shocking Left in Theatre Talk with Stephen Wadsworth Karol Szymanowski’s ‘King Roger’ directed by Stephen Wadsworth premiered 21 July 2012 in the Santa Fe Opera
Everything in Opera Leaves a Mark Talk with Krzysztof Warlikowski Premiering a drama production leaves me wondering what it is that I want to talk about in my next piece. Unlike the opera, which opens up a world of opportunities
Culture Circulatory System Talk with Mirek Filiciak, Alek Tarkowski The greatest risk involved in the whole debate is absolute polarisation and utter simplification, while forgetting that freedom entails responsibility