Industrial Ruinsand Other Objects BY Karol Sienkiewicz Art Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdańsk Shipyard keeps on redefining itself. This year’s Alternativa investigates two areas: materiality and its own archive. The outcome of the first one is much more convincing
Occupation: Photojournalist Talk with Bogdan Łopieński Art I couldn’t fathom that plant directors would just let artists wander around their factory floors. That could never happen in a socialist country – Bogdan Łopieński about the 1st Biennale of Spacial Forms in Elbląg in 1965
The Final Showdown in Zachęta BY Karol Sienkiewicz Art The exhibition revolves around a few unpleasant stories with art taking centre stage in all of them. Macuga mixed the documents from the Gallery’s archive with her own works and interventions
Photography Reclaimed BY Iwona Kurz Art The albums ‘Polesie’ and ‘Kronikarki’ are a successful attempt at reclaiming photography. Chomętowska and Chrząszczowa’s images make the past seem contemporary, or at least stripped of the nostalgic patina of age
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:Y, Z as in CTRL+Y, CTRL+Z BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media Authors have predicted the demise of everything from books, television, the press, middlemen, and professional artists to politics, government, nation states, and even entire regions. But unexpected returns happen all the time
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH:Unidentified Family Photos BY Chris Niedenthal Art It is so fascinating to look through old family photos and photo albums, and see how we and those before us once looked. Such photographs show fashion, hairstyles and many other interesting details
Filmmaker and Archaeologist Talk with Maciej Drygas Film Communist Poland’s Security Service analysed millions of our most intimate letters every year
No Content Without Context BY Agnieszka Słodownik Media Media, nostalgia, and videotape: visiting the Dutch Institute for Sound & Vision. The authority of the national archives and the counter-effect of the entertaining ‘Experience’
