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Poor but Sexy
24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber in the tabloids, the New Cold War in the broadsheets and the endless search for 'the new Berlin' for hipsters. Against the stereotypes, Agata Pyzik peers behind the curtain to take a look at the secret histories of Eastern Europe (and its tortured relations with the 'West'). Neoliberalism and mass migration, post-punk and the Bowiephile obsession with the Eastern Bloc, Orientalism and 'self-colonization', the emancipatory potentials of Socialist Realism, the possibility of a non-Western idea of modernity and futurism, and the place of Eastern Europe in any current revival of 'the idea of communism' – all are much more complex and surprising than they appear. Poor But Sexy refuses both a dewy-eyed Ostalgia for the 'good old days' and the equally desperate desire to become a 'normal part of Europe', reclaiming instead the idea an Other Europe. , ,
Japan's Tin Drum
Tin Drum seeks to provide an outsider look at one of the most mysterious post-punk albums, the 1981 Orientalist and escapist manifesto by the English synth-pop/new wave English band Japan. As an act of cultural appropriation and a meditation on the perils of Western civilisation, seeking solace in a virtual trip to the 'Orient of the self' and Maoist ideology, Tin Drum invites external analysis to be culturally appropriated itself. Agata Pyzik tells how the fruitful encounter between the neurotic Western youngsters and dream of the radically other East produced one of the most dissonant and compelling records of the era, too strange to be appreciated at the time, a big hit at the time but to...
Artists from Krakow. The Generation 1970?1979
This is a catalogue of the second exhibition in the series presenting the oeuvre of artists who live and work in Krakow. The publication comprises texts by the curators Delfina Jalowik and Monika Koziol, an interview with Prof. Leszek Misiak, an essay by Magdalena Dragowska about the history of Grupa Ladnie, and another by Agata Pyzik on feminist themes in the work of Krakow female artists born in the 1970s. Besides reproductions of paintings, sculptures and installations, the publication also carries statements by the artists and photographs of their studios. The catalogue is supplemented with a CD of interviews with the artists represented in the exhibition.00Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Kraków, Poland (20.10.2017- 01.04.2018).
Album
"Tomasz Machciński is one of the most original, yet least known Polish post-war visual artist. In the last 55 years - almost all his lifetime - he's been creating an incalculable body of photographic work, whose subject is solely himself. Himself as thousand different personages, some famous ones, from Hitler to Marlene Dietrich, to personalities of his own creation. All the while breaking all sexual, gender and cultural conventions and taboos. Submerged in his own creative frenzy, while living an ordinary small town life - he made his ALBUM - a photographic ready-made object, where he pasted his various impersonations and creations. Now a Foundation of his own name published The Album for the first time as a collector's edition of only 300 copies. This is a faithful replica of Machciński's original book, accompanied by essays from art historians Agata Pyzik & Anke Kempkes, introduced by Zofia Czartoryska & edited by Katarzyna Karwańska, Head of Tomasz Machciński Foundation."--Agata Pyzik.
Variations
'Jacques's voice sings out loud and clear – wistful, drily humorous, stiletto-sharp.' – The Observer Variations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit. Variations travels from Oscar Wilde's London to austerity-era Belfast via inter-war Cardiff, a drag bar in Liverpool just after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Manchester's protests against Clause 28, and Brighton in the 2000s. Through diary entries of an illicit love affair, an oral history of a contemporary political collective; ...
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent, and books such as The Emperor and Travels with Herodotus founded the new genre of ‘literary reportage’. It was an achievement that brought him global renown, not to mention the uninvited attentions of the CIA. In this definitive biography, Artur Domos?awski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely c...
Landscapes of Communism
"When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist idea. The regimes that built them are now dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to postrevolutionary Kiev, the buildings remain inhabited, populated by people whose lives were scattered by the collapse of communism. Landscapes of Communism is a journey of historical discovery, plunging us into the lost world of socialist architecture. Recalling the work of W.G. Sebald and Rebecca Solnit, Owen Hatherley, a brilliant, witty, young urban critic shows how power was w...
Superfluous Women
Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, and visual analysis, Superfluous Women explores the intersections between art, protest, and feminism in today's Ukraine.
