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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 connection with painting. For example: “All my work evolves from my history as a painter: all the objects, installations, film, video, performance – things that are formed[1].” And “All my… 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 of dance education, that a dancer becomes a choreographer and then a professor – this predictable and rigid path. Then again your work is somehow always against the structure. You don’t like… Continue reading // Interview with Boris Charmatz (2016) // “I love and I hate dance that is why I’m a dancer”. “I love contradictions! […]”
*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, which is actually a presence. Let me explain. I think No More Stories is very much connected – in a kind of reverse way – to your last major… 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”.
“Obieg” Magazine, 7/2014* Zofia Cielątkowska:Tell me more about your project or rather presentation which we can see at the Jewish Museum. There are different stone pictures, a video in which you seem to be swallowing something and another video which is actually more difficult to describe. For the viewer who doesn’t know the context it… Continue reading // Element of invisibility – talk with Luísa Nóbrega (2014) // “Somehow when we get closer to history paradoxically we realize more and more how far we are from a throughout understanding.”
Interview from took place at the European Culture Congress "Art for Social Change" (8–11 September 2011) Text published in Biweekly, nr 30/2011. Zofia Cielątkowska: Do you think that intellectuals or art can do something for social change? GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK: No. You really think that there is nothing artist and intellectuals can do in favour… Continue reading // Talk With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2011) // “For me, the ethical is that moment which might or might not be encountered by the subject, and may produce the reflex for which it is or it is not trained.”
7TH October 2016, Dwutygodnik.com nr 196, 10/2016 Zofia Cielątkowska: Gob Squad has been performing more than 20 years now. SIMON WILL: Yes, we started in 1994. It is a while. Quite often you emphasize that you want to ‘escape from the stage’. Looking at your works from the 90’s till today, you are now closer… Continue reading // Interview with Gob Squad (2016) // “…We are politically engaged as we regard ourselves as political.”
Interview, February 4, 2016 Zofia Cielątkowska: Your higher education started with art history? ALICJA BIELAWSKA: I know it might be a bit surprising from today’s perspective, but after high school I was just not sure what I wanted to do. Art was always present in my home and surrounding, and it was an important part… Continue reading // Talk with Alicja Bielawska – Sculpture Suggests Movement (2016) // “I think the performative aspect is present in my work and I’m curious about the effects a performer will have when she/he is also part of the work.”
Intreview 19.03.2014 published in Obieg Magazine Zofia Cielatkowska: It is not your first visit in Poland? Martha Rosler: This is the fourth time, all within the last two and a half years. First I went to Kraków but then I was invited to Warsaw, I exbited work last year in Gdansk in the show Alternativa,… Continue reading // Art is heart and soul of any society. Interview with Martha Rosler // “Art alone does not create social change; art acts in conjunction with elements in contemporary discourse as a crystallizer and perhaps a catalyst. Very rarely a catalyst.”
Zofia Ce: Until August 2015 the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń will showcase a retrospective of Gustav Metzger, "Act or Perish!", then in November 2015 it will be presented in a slightly different version in Kunsthall and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. The first impression is that, as viewers, we are moving through a clear… Continue reading //Art is Always About Not Being Understood – Interview with the Curators of the Gustav Metzger Retrospective //
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