PUBLIC A-I-R – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Friday, 29 July 2011

• 6 p.m. What Is Frontex?

  • Debate featuring researchers and activists, related to Pau Faus’s public campaign inspired by the presence in Warsaw of the main headquarters of Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency.

  • Participants:

  • – Magda Qandil, journalist, consultant of UNHCR – UN Refugee Agency in Poland

  • – Roman Kurkiewicz, felietonist of "Przekrój" magazine, lecturer at Warsaw University and Collegium Civitas, Ress, tv and radio journalist.

  • – Kolektyw Syrena, iniciators "AntiFrontex", Ani-deportation Days in Warsaw, Warsaw branch of the international movement No Border.

  • www.czymjestfrontex.com

• 7–10 p.m. Stone Soup. Cooking together with Juliette Delventhal.

  • Juliette Delventhal, a restaurant chef on a residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, carries out a series of outdoor cooking workshops as part of PUBLIC A-I-R, asking questions about where the food on our tables comes from or what we know about the producers and traditional methods of making food.

  • * Please bring your own cups, cutlery, plates and drinks and eventually vegetables to put in the pot.

Saturday, 30 July 2011

• 11 a.m. Panic Attack

  • Lecture by Magdalena Budziszewska, PhD, Faculty of Psychology, Warsaw University

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• 11:45 a.m. Breathing exercises against panic attacks with Ariel Reichman

  • The lecture and exercises accompany the work You Have to Be Strong by Israeli artist Ariel Reichman, which will be installed in two locations: in the park in front of the CCA building and at Chłodna Street 25 in downtown Warsaw. You Have to Be Strong is what might be called an anti-monument. It reveals its presence in public space only if the viewer becomes personally involved to generate the energy required to set it in motion – the power of the muscles, emotions, curiosity of dangerous places.

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• 12 p.m. WSPÓŁ.DZIELNIA – emotional mapping of a pre-war cooperative housing estate 

  • Do you live in one of the WSM Żoliborz settlements? Or simply like to come here for a walk? Join the WSPÓŁ.DZIELNIA project and share a story that connects you to the area.

  • Presentation by Emilia Piotrowska and Igor Sarzyński, initiators of the WSPÓŁ.DZIELNIA project (more at http://wspoldzielnia.blogspot.com)

  • Moderation: Brave New Alps

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• 12:45–1:30 p.m. Breathing exercises against panic attacks

  • Conducted by Ariel Reichman

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• 1 p.m. CCA Creativity Counseling for Artists I

  • Bureau for Melodramatic Research

  • "Right-brain thinking", the activity of the right cerebral hemisphere, responsible for emotions and visual/spatial awareness, is usually mentioned in response to the question about the sources of creativity. What does this neurobiological map tell us about the sociopolitical map on which creative activities are charted? How can artists correctly and effectively use their emotions in the art market’s deadline race? Therapeutic sessions run by the Bureau for Melodramatic Research collective are to help artists cope with the tough role of being the world’s emotional seismographs. A performance piece for artists and others.

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• 2 p.m. Active citizenship – a Polish tradition

  • A discussion devoted to a shift that occurred in thinking about social activism in Poland at the end of the 20th century. Ilona Iłowiecka-Tańska will talk about how, after twenty years of socio-economic transformation, the NGO community has arrived at the present concept of the third sector. 

  • Presentation by Ilona Iłowiecka-Tańska (Fundacja Partners Polska, collaboration with Instytut Kultury Polskiej at Warsaw University)

  • Moderation: Brave New Alps

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• 2:45 p.m.–3 p.m. Breathing exercises against panic attacks

  • Conducted by Ariel Reichma

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• 3 p.m. CCA Creativity Counseling for Artists II

  • Bureau for Melodramatic Research

• 4 p.m. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PLAY. Slightly organised anarchy as the best model of culture in art and creativity in life; version 3.1

  • Alena Boika, chief editor of Umelec Magazine, member of the organisations Eastern Alliance and Divus, will talk about Prague’s first artistic commune, self-publishing, culture incubators, about failures, changes and the way to the Caucasus.

• 5 p.m. FREEGANISM 

  • Warszawska Kooperatywa Spożywcza

• 1–4 p.m. PESTO!

  • A pesto-making workshop with Juliette Delventhal.

  • * Please bring your own cups, cutlery, plates and drinks.

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• Afterwards we move to the UFO (Unexpected Foundation Occupation) space at Plac na Rozdrożu for the following events:

• 2–6 p.m.
  • Presentation of a book about the nomadic project THE KNOT, carried out in 2010 in Warsaw, Bucharest and Berlin
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• 7 p.m.

  • Meeting with the UFO project curator, Ewa Rudnicka, and Natalia Bet and Piotr Kojta Kowalski (Nitro collective), who will talk about how the project came about. We will also learn about how Warsaw residents and visitors react to the ‘saucer’ and how the work of the French-Polish team that built the UFO looked like.

Sunday, 31 July 2011

• 11 a.m. Searching for edible plants around the Ujazdowski Castle and using them to prepare food

  • With Juliette Delventhal and Brave New Alps

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• 12 p.m. CCA Creativity Counseling for Artists III

  • Bureau for Melodramatic Research

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• 1 p.m. Spring Rolls Warsaw Style

  • Dorota Podlaska’s workshop invites participants to creatively fuse different culinary traditions in a single dish by using Vietnamese rice paper to make spring rolls stuffed with foods selected at random in Warsaw shops. It’s a hit or miss – the end result can turn out to be a delicious surprise or a yucky disaster. The semitransparent rice paper reveals its contents and makes virtually painting-like effects possible.

  • * Please bring your own knives and chopping boards.

  • Ngo Van Tuong, co-author of The Sweet-and-Sour Book, Or Everything You’d Like to Buy in a Vietnamese Shop But Are Afraid to Ask, will talk about Vietnamese cuisine and its characteristic products available in Warsaw.

  • Soup and other Vietnamese specialities served by Diep from Pho 14.

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• 3 p.m. CCA Creativity Counseling for Artists IV

  • Bureau for Melodramatic Research

All day:

• Skill Fair

  • Do you knit, sew, design furniture, know how to tie sailor’s knots, can start a fire in one minute, know how to use waste materials to create useful objects or have any other skill that will help others to attain more independence in daily life? Come forward! Persons selected through an open recruitment procedure will run micro-training sessions to teach their skills to the public.

  • Project initiated by Brave New Alps.

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• Constructive Deconstruction: a Celebration of Autonomy, Production and Public Space

  • A project initiated by Brave New Alps and a group of Academy of Fine Arts and Warsaw University Students. As a result of a series of research seminars on subjects such as DIY culture, food culture and its economic dimension or urban public space, participants have proposed spatial solutions for the park surrounding the Ujazdowski Castle. 

  • Participants: Brave New Alps, Paweł Jasiewicz, Norbert Delman & Dorota Swiderska, Alicja Getka & Jan Garncarek, Agata Leszczyńska, Marcin Ebert, Marcela Teran, Yoohyun Lee, Anna Balázs, and Magdalena Assanowicz.

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• The Consequences of Genealogy

  • Performance: Stas Volyazlovsky

  • An Ukrainian artist with a Polish-sounding last name comes to Poland in search of his noble roots. He isn’t sure whether he is really related to the Ujazdowski Castle’s former owner, King Augustus II, but just in case, he asks visitors to wipe their shoes before entering.