PTV:Performance TV – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

25/11/2017

• Dream Adoption Society

  • Locus Solus. Part One

    • VR experience

    • Laboratory, booking required

      • Welcome to Locus Solus, a park as strange and curious as its numerous attractions. Its owner, the scientist and inventor Doctor Martial Canterel, will show visitors his radical experiments and inventions. Should anyone in Europe have forgotten a phase at some stage of their life, Martial Cantarel is able to track down that moment and control it. Among the many bizarre and scary inventions there is an enormous glass cage containing eight human corpses protected from decay. At Cantarel’s command they rise to reproduce key moments in their lives. Locus Solus is a place where the world has become utterly transparent, where the past and the future reveal all their secrets.

      • Dream Adoption Society is an artistic collective initiated by Krzysztof Garbaczewski and Michał Staniszewski.

      • Dream Adoption Society ― Marta Nawrot, Maciej Gniady, Jagoda Wójtowicz, Bartosz Zaskórski, Michał Staniszewski, NOVIKI, Wojtek Markowski, Zbigniew Bzymek, Krzysztof Garbaczewski

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• This is Not a Dream

  • Film screening with introduction by Gavin Butt

  • Laboratory, Auditorium Hall

    • A feature-length documentary, directed by Gavin Butt and Ben Walters. Through the moving, funny, provocative, and inspirational stories of 12 unique figures, This Is Not a Dream charts a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism. It traces the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters, and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashion, and glittery magic penises along the way. The film is based on exclusive interviews shot in London, New York, and Berlin with Dickie Beau, Dara Birnbaum, Nao Bustamante, Vaginal Davis, Cole Escola, Vincent Fremont, Alp Haydar, Holestar, David Hoyle, Kalup Linzy, Glenn O’Brien, and Scottee. The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. New worlds began to unfold: you could talk back to the mainstream by hijacking its images and upending its values; you could reach out, through the camera, to fellow freaks; and you could create dreamscapes to explore other ways of being. This Is Not a Dream charts the lineage of this revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance.Event in English.

    • This Is Not a Dream was commissioned by Performance Matters, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency, London. 

      • Directed by Gavin Butt, Ben Walters

      • Edited by Tom Frederic

      • Original video segments by Dickie Beau

      • Music by Morgan Quaintance

      • Special thanks to Rebeka Põldsam

• CONGLOMERATE TV

  • Screening of Block 4 and micro-telenovela Desde el Jardín by Sol Calero and Dafna Maimon

  • Laboratory, Auditorium Hall

    • The screening of Block 4 produced by the Berlin art collective CONGLOMERATE TV, with works by: Aurora Sander, Josep Maynou, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Kev Bewersdorf, Eli Cortiñas, and Pascual Sisto, as well as new episodes and works by CONGLOMERATE TV: Derek Howard, Sol Calero, Dafna Maimon, Christopher Kline, and Ethan Hayes-Chute. As part of the evening there will be a special screening of Desde el Jardín, a “micro” telenovela written and directed by Sol Calero and Dafna Maimon. The series is shot on location in Calero’s eponymous installation at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow and stars Caique Tizzi in a gender-bending double role within a “rags to riches—and back” experimental narrative, among a cast of local Glaswegian Latinos. Desde el Jardín is made by CONGLOMERATE, combining set design, props, music, and cinematography from all of its respective members.

    • CONGLOMERATE TV is a collaborative project presented in the form of a television network. The project is realized by a core team of five Berlin-based artists and filmmakers: Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline, and Dafna Maimon. CONGLOMERATE TV and its members conceive, direct, and produce original programs. Their 30-minute “Blocks” are composed of recurring shows, ads, and one-off segments, while also including contributions from invited guest artists. A mishmash of genres and sources of inspiration are characteristic of CONGLOMERATE’s style. They pull references from the vernacular of TV history and utilize the model of a TV station in order to embrace collaboration, as well as to reconsider how exhibitions are viewed online. Filmed in original elaborate sets that are usually built within gallery contexts, the programs mix diverse content, merging melodrama, documentary, comedy, interview, music, and art into a unified body. The videos are shown in the exhibition among the original sets, as well as broadcast on the web.

26/11/2017

• Johannes Paul Raether

  • Performance Transformalor ikeae Warszawa [Version 4.4.6.4]

  • Furniture shop, transport from U–jazdowski 

    • Transformalor is an identity, which exclusively appears in its unique habitat of the global Kommunehaus—a term psycho-realistically transformed from its original meaning and context and attributed to various forms of the corporate public. She/he/it is a grim Propaganda Avatara of their future Repro-Techno-Tribe, which infiltrates life-prostheses and workspace factories.

    • In the series of psycho-realist research missions [Version 4.4.6.4] initiated by the Avatara to collectively fathom queer-futurist reproduction scenarios to overcome the nuclear family, the Repro-Techno-Tribe will arrive in Warsaw and participants will collaborate on finding modes of a potential ReproReality within its local IKEA. In the process of constructing the tribe, which Transformalor calls for, the research mission gives occasion to interlace feminist techno utopias, bio-hacking, and androgynous life forms as well as neo-communal architectures and re-productivity. 

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• Dominika Olszowy

  • Performance TV – online television

  • YouTube channel PTV. Performance TV

    • Performance TV is based on setting up performative online TV and making a three-part video series. The video episodes will take the form of small-format television, and include a chat show with invited studio guests, on-camera performances by invited artists, poetry reading, animation, and reports from art events that are currently taking place in Warsaw. Each of the episodes will be themed on a different topic. Performance TV is live TV; it is intuitive and unconstrained by any self-imposed framework.