How does physical space both reflect and contribute to the creative life of a city? Continue reading Love, Art and a Walk in the City: Art Between Network, Community, and Space (2018)
The text was published by CAS – Contemporary Ar Stavanger Journal, as a result of the writing residency. What is the film Wild Relatives about? There are many ways to describe it. It is about the journey of seeds, agricultural cultivation practices in a globalised world, the long and short-term consequences of the modernization of agriculture, and relations of power in the neoliberal world based on profit – all of that put together. The movie starts beneath the earth in the Global Seed Vault located in Svalbard (Norway), where the seeds from a gene bank in Aleppo – which … Continue reading //The Seed as an Archive: On Jumana Manna’s Wild Relatives (2019)//
Text for/published by Performance Art Oslo Festival 2018 >>>> What is Performance? The answer, as suggested by Kurt Johannessen in the artist talk, is situated between ‘know’ and ‘not-know’, or to be more precise, in the constant movement between knowing … Continue reading //The Materiality Of Gesture And Meeting (2018)//
October 29th 2013 Zofia Cielątkowska: You are most of the time considered as a performance artist, but at the same time in many interviews you emphasize your … Continue reading // Talk With Carolee Schneemann (2013) // “My work evolved with risk and uncertainty.”
Magazyn Szum, 5/2016 Zofia Cielątkowska: I start with the idea of hierarchy and structure. I mean, in one of the interviews you talk about your distance to this concept … Continue reading // Interview with Boris Charmatz (2016) // “I love and I hate dance that is why I’m a dancer”. “I love contradictions! […]”
Text published in Tique art paper 22/February/2018 https://www.tique.art/paper/artists/xavier-le-roy/ Zofia Cielatkowska: At the beginning of your path as a dancer and choreographer you didn’t really want to indicate that you are a scientist, but finally – with a little bit of story – you have used this information in your bio. Then, for the next following years – to a certain extent – it has became a ‘label’. How do you look at it from today’s perspective? Xavier Le Roy: In the first work [The Product of Circumstances, 1999 ] I decided to use this information in order to give it … Continue reading Interview with Xavier Le Roy (2018) // A visitor in an exhibition can walk in the space while in the theater a spectator seats on a chair //
*Jul 11, 2015, Interview published in Contemporary Lynx Zofia Cielątkowska: My first impression after listening to No More Stories (2015) was that it is an absence, … Continue reading // The Sound Is Not Enough – Talk with Wojtek Blecharz (2015) // “In general, I compose very personal music and I am not afraid to admit it”.
