Friday 24 November 2006, 19.00
Analogue: Pioneering Artists' Video from Poland (1968–88)
Screening
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Pawel Kwiek
Video A 1974 © The artist, reproduced by permission of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland |
Programme duration 60 min
This screening forms a crucial part of a tripartite event taking place over two consecutive weekends at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, presenting seminal early video from the UK, Canada and Poland. Video art appeared in Poland in the early 1970s within the creative community known as the Workshop of the Film Form. The Workshop’s open, multidisciplinary nature and its members’ fundamental, shared interest in new media inspired them to adopt video as the primary medium for their activities almost as soon as the appropriate technology appeared. Members also possessed an analytical stance that compelled them to explore and reveal the inherent qualities of the media they used. Thus, this other art of the moving image – apart from cinema – became the focus of their singular, artistic exploratory interest, an interest they directed toward the structural and expressive qualities of the medium.
The programme, selected by Dr Lukasz Ronduda, Curator of Film and Video at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
At 15.00 there is a discussion highlighting the Polish contribution to video art with a presentations by Dr Ronduda, the curators of the Analogue project, and two featured Polish artists.
Programme:
Video A
Paweł Kwiek, 1974
Video C
Paweł Kwiek, 1974
Video O
Paweł Kwiek, 1974
Corner
Ryszard Waśko, 1976
Video-photographic situations
Andrzej Paruzel, 1976
Transformations
Janusz Kolodrubiec, 1977
Distrubance
Janusz Szczerek, 1978
Sumberge Messiah
Janusz Szczerek, 1982
How to train little girls
Zbigniew Libera, 1986
Farewell to Europe
Jerzy Truszkowski,1986
My Videomasochizms
Józef Robakowski, 1989-90
Dance with the trees
Józef Robakowski, 1985
My Videomasochizms
Józef Robakowski, 1989-90
My foot is painful
Józef Robakowski, 1989
Every dog has his day
Adam Rzepecki, 1989
Videosongs
Józef Robakowski, 1989
Art is Power
Józef Robakowski, 1985
Solidarity TV (Reconstruction of the solidarity TV from the 80s)
Igor Krenz, 2006
Funded by Arts Council England with support from the Polish Cultural Institute, The Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the
University of Central Lancashire and Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
£4, booking recommended
See also:
Analogue: Analogue: Pioneering Artists' Video from Poland (1968–88): A Panel Discussion
Friday 24 November 2006