PTV: Performance TV – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

30/11/2018, 8:00 p.m.

• Jay Tan and Geo Wyeth
  • You come in here, giving it all this
  • Tickets: 15 zł
    • A live layering of two voices, in a series of familial entanglements, rolling, strutting, and flapping through a circular evening of household chores with a copy machine, a computer monitor, A3 paper sheets, and the on and off blaring of our bedtime stories – X Factor, Eurovision, America‘s Got Talent, The Voice. Jay Tan and Geo Wyeth use the learned survival techniques of high achieving, talented children to unpack our relationships to talent, excellence, and mastery. The artists will also engage family history, dream narrative, scientific research, and historical analysis, in an exchange of queer intimacy.
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    • Jay Tan makes sculpture, performance, sound and video. She grew up in South London during the eighties, assuming most heads of state were female. She believes in domestic ornament as an active politics and makes work with a soft spot for mechanics.
    • Geo Wyeth seamlessly combines music, installation and performance. His creative worlds are rooted in the queer aesthetics of the American DIY punk performance, ad-libbing and poetry. He often employs voices of figures derived from popular culture, his family, local community or his own imagination.

02/12/2018, 5:30 p.m.

• East London Cable
  • Reality Forum – encounter III

    • Reality Forum is where reality TV meets its distant cousin—performance. Organized by East London Cable, it is an irregular and informal screening and discussion group whose aim is to consider the genre that has come to be known as ‘unscripted television’ through an artistic and critical lens. Beginning in September, throughout the 3 sessions we will move from the classics like This American Life, The Real World, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, through niche series like Connected, The Prancing Elites Project or Terrace House to the Polish original and franchise gems like Ballada o lekkim zabarwieniu erotycznym, Amazonki or Ex na plaży. Completing the selection with the artist works that use reality TV tactics and with anecdotes, spin-offs and behind-the-scenes picks we will try to both contextualise reality TV as a form of modern performance art and problematise it as a mode of labour and representation. We invite anyone with an interest in reality TV—fans, actors, artists or critics—to join. Reality Forum is accompanied by special Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2089036244441437/

    • East London Cable (ELC) is an artist collective that researches the intersection between contemporary art and television, and produces works that can manifest as either of them.ELC is Aoibheann Greenan, Dan Meththananda, Florence Peake, Jos Bitelli, Sung Tieu and Wojciech Kosma—a configuration that will welcome new friends, advisers and collaborators. Having previously worked in TV as makers, performers, advisors or writers, we would like now to collectivise and formalise our efforts as a part-creative agency, part-artistic practice.