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Who Gets to Decide What We Preserve? Single-Artist Museums Rethink the Artist-as-Genius Myth at Cricoteka in Krakow
Along the Vistula River in the historic part of Krakow, over a surprisingly sunny two days in October, an international group of scholars, artists, art historians, curators, critics, and more gathered at the contemporarily designed Cricoteka to try to untangle and deconstruct the ever-pervasive myth of the artist as genius against the past, present, and future of the single-artist museum.
When Cleaning Becomes an Obsessive Ritual. In Conversation with Luísa Bacelar
A woman tries to get through her daily routine, but she cannot leave the bathroom — this is the basic premise of Luísa Bacelar’s unsettling hand-drawn animated short Wisdom Tooth, in which cleaning becomes an obsessive ritual and a mirror for the protagonist’s anxious thoughts.
“I don't want to reach for tools simply because they're trendy.” In Conversation with Agnieszka Mastalerz
For the Warsaw-based artist, bodies are human and non-human, individual and collective, merging with computers and machines. In no mental scars, no nursed grudges, organic execution is partnered with learned computer programming, as an anthropomorphic robot performs a similar choreography to the dancers, yet memorises it through a different method.
A Magician, a Pianist and a Man in the Crowd. Julie Béna and Mark Ther blend exhibition and performance at Prague Art Week
W1 Radio: Meet Kiiōtō, a unique interplay of melodic sensibilities and an inimitable voice