A review of Karol Radziszewski’s films – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Artist, curator, enthusiast, collector, amateur historian – Karol Radziszewski moves seamlessly between visual arts and performance. The programme accompanying the exhibition The Power of Secrets, which presents the richness of his creative practices, would not be complete without a review of the artist’s films and video works.

The starting point for the review will be two films by Radziszewski, in which the artist takes on a risky game with myth, archives, body and memory: The Prince (2014), an exploration of Jerzy Grotowski’s legend and MS 101 (2012), a queer fantasy about Ludwig Wittgenstein. This impossible cinematographic meeting between the theatre reformer and the Austrian philosopher comes about in Radziszewski’s work as a result of an uncompromising attempt at rewriting history as well as his fascination with the tradition of European and American queer cinema. The review shall also include the films Afterimages, Sebastian, ID, Śnienie, America Is Not Ready For This.

• 15/12/2019, 18:00
  • The Power of Secrets. Review of Karol Radziszewski’s films, part 1.
    • Sebastian, 2010, 4'30''
    • MS 101, 2012, 50'
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• 19/12/2019, 18:00
  • The Power of Secrets. Review of Karol Radziszewski’s films, part 2.
    • Backstage, 2011, 38'
    • The Prince, 2014, 71'
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• 01/03/2020, 16:00
  • The Power of Secrets. Review of Karol Radziszewski’s films, part 3.
    • Śnienie, 2015, 5'55''
    • America Is Not Ready For This, 2012, 67'28''