ALTERNATIVA OPENING PROGRAM 25 -27. 05. 2012

25.05 Friday

12.00 - 18.00 exhibitions open to the media and the professionals - Hall 90 B / Wyspa Art Institute

12.00 - 14.00 press preview and curator guided tour – conference room / Wyspa Art Institute

15.00 Alternativa 2010 - 2011 - movie by Elvin Flamingo - preview screening - conference room / Wyspa Art Institute

17.00 Alfredo Cramerotti - Tagging and Other Amenities of Contemporary Life (lecture in English, Polish translation) – conference room / Wyspa Art Institute

21.00 PARIAH (R&S / London) – Buffet Club


26.05 Saturday

18.00 Alternativa opening - Hall 90 B

20.00 Szelest Spadających Papierków – concert, Hall 90 B

21.00 Pink Freud - concert, Hall 90 B

22.30 after party - Buffet Club
exhibitions open until midnight


27.05 Sunday

14.00 Pascal Gielen - Biennale and the art scene: post-institution in post-Ford creativity factory (lecture in English, Polish translation) – conference room / Wyspa Art Institute

20.00 NILS PROJECT (Paryż) - premiere concert / Buffet Club

ALTERNATIVA 2012 – INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL

under the auspices of  President of Gdańsk Mr Paweł Adamowicz


Exhibitions open to the media and the professionals:
May 25, since 12.00 / Please register at alternativa2012@wyspa.art.pl

Official Opening
May 26 at 6 pm

The shows will run until September 30, Admission free
Inquiries: pr-wyspa(at)wyspa.art.pl

Wyspa Institute of Art invites you for the opening days of Alternativa 2012, a project that seeks diverse modes of knowing and explores possible ways of being and acting in contemporaneity. This year’s programme comprises two exhibitions, entitled respectively Materiality and Wyspa. Now is Now.

Artists’ talks and lecture performances include those by Hito Steyerl, Lara Almacequi, Emilio Moreno, Marcelo Expósito, Sally Gutierrez and Oliver Ressler.

The list of distinguished speakers who will deliver talks during Alternativa 2012 includes: Franco Berardi, Alfredo Cramerotti, Okwui Enwezor, Pascal Gielen, Miguel Robles Duran and Irit Rogoff. Please check our website regularly for schedules of talks and workshops and updates.


Alternativa 2010–2012 is a project prepared by Wyspa Institute of Art and the City of Gdańsk, with additional committed funds from the European Commission, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as the Province of Pomerania, among others.

Materiality is a two-year European project that is being developed in collaboration between Wyspa, Vessel in Bari, Polytechnico in Tomar and Kibla in Maribor.

23 of March (Friday)
6 PM / Wyspa Institute of Art
Free entrance

Wyspa Institute of Art cordially invites You to the opening of the project RE.ACT.FEMINISM #2 on 23rd of March at 6 pm. re.act.feminism #2 - performative archive. Archive, exhibitions, workshops, performances, discussions, research

Opening programme on 23rd of March:
18.00 - meeting with the curators of the archive: Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer and the curators of the Gdańsk part: Aneta Szyłak and Aleksandra Grzonkowska
19.00 - official opening
22.00 - concert in the Buffet Club

re.act.feminism #2, performative archive is a mobile project which is going to be shown in six European countries in the years 2011 - 2013. The first unveiling of the project occurred on 7 October 2011 at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country in Spain.

Opening:
Friday 3rd February 2012, 19.00, Wyspa Institute of Art

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday - Sunday, 12.00-18.00


Maryam Jafri is an artist working in video, performance and photography. Informed by a research based, interdisciplinary process her artworks are marked by a visual language poised between film and theater and a series of narrative experiments and oscillating between script and document, fragment and whole. Jafri’s practice often starts from something that seems concrete whether that be an archive or a written text and then disrupts its established form. As Bridget Crone states in the work, "Staged Archive" (2008), for example, Jafri worked in relation to the National Archives of Ghana to create a film that questioned the archive‘s relationship to knowledge and ‘truth’ by staging the archive through a series of tableaux that referred to the visual and narrative codes of TV and cinema such as the court room drama, for example.

Maryam Jafri is an artist based in New York and Copenhagen. Her video work “Costume Party” (2005), Staged Archive (2008) and “Death with friends” (2010) will be presented in Wyspa in the exhibition “Stages”. Maryam Jafri presented her video works “Running”,“Janus”, “Father & Son” and Theatre as a part of Estrangement, an exhibition organized in Wyspa Institute of Art in the framework of Alternativa Festival 2011 curated by Aneta Szyłak and Hiwa K. Recent exhibition is her first solo show in Poland.

During the opening there’s a possibility to get know with two publications about Maryam Jafri - Bettina Steinbruegge: Silent Witnesses: Independence Day 1936-1967; Camera Austria International, nr.116/2011 and Maryam Jafri. Costume Party: Colony &Native, Kathrin Becker, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2006. Publications will be avaliable in Wyspa’s archive.

Opening:
Friday 25th November 2011, 18.00, Wyspa Institute of Art

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday - Sunday, 12.00-18.00


Perito Moreno is one of the largest glaciers in the world which melts into the Patagonian Lake Argentina and is still growing, despite the global warming. As a result of its continual enlargement the huge pressure of water makes the glacier break up and release frozen blocks. This on-going, spectacular process of the glacier calving takes place amidst the applause and cheers of spectators.

"Perito Moreno" speaks about our daily "breaking" because of seemingly petite reasons in unspectacular situations. Hanna Nowicka shows this little effective, unattractive and quite breaks of our own "glaciers" in seductive visual and sound layers.

Opening:
15th October 2011, 18:00, Wyspa Institute of Art

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday - Sunday, 12.00-18.00


Anna Reinert’s painting is first and foremost focused on the reconstruction of visible reality, not its imitation. Its main concern is not any approximation, intuitive method and, even, observation but the rational, scientific certainty. The reduction of a three-dimensional space to the plane of a painting, following a scientific approach, brings to mind the 15th-century intention to create new rules for painting in Renaissance time and the concept of a painting as the window open to the world.

Wyspa Institute of Art / Hall 90B / Buffet

29th September (Thursday)


7.30 p.m. Hiwa K With Jim White Once Upon A Time In The West - concert/ performance Hall 90B
8 p.m. Le Batard de la Raison / Rozumu Bękart - concert Buffet
9 p.m. MODE101 (newwaveconnection), Pan Damian: disco, italo, cosmic, balearic - Buffet
11 p.m. DO: CENT, SKANK-1: drum&bass - Buffet

30th September (Friday)

6 p.m. Buy Yourself Wyspa! charity auction - Wyspa Institute of Art
8 p.m. Paryss + Sasin - live sax! Cripsy: deep house, lounge, chill out - Buffet

We would like to invite for the Performance Night that will take place on 28th May as a part of the Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival vernissage. All the accompanying events will take place both on the first floor of the Hall 90B (the Labour&Leisure exhibition space) and on the premises of Shipyard’s surroundings.

Although this is performance night, the first actions – like Rozgłośnia Stocznia/ Shipyard Radio Station, a broadcast of Kasia Krakowiak - will start at 10.00 am. It is worth to spend this day at Shipyard!

Zorka Wollny i Anna Szwajgier - A song while working
Hall 90B

Anders Bojen i Kristoffer Ørum - The Subjective History of Gdańsk, performance
Hall 90B

Kasia Krakowiak - Human Antena – Shipyard Radio Station 94FM, performance + reconstruction of the Shipyard’s broadcasting center
Former premises of the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Hall 90B

Wyspa Institute of Art, in collaboration with the City of Gdansk and Gdansk 2016 is launching a series of international exhibitions, art events, publications and on-line activities under the title Alternativa scheduled for the Summers of 2011 and 2012. Alternativa aims to investigate the ways in which contemporary art intersects with the political. It seeks diverse modes of knowing and is searching for a performative, affectual apparatus through which we can explore possible ways of existing in contemporaneity. For the exhibitions and events, the newly renovated spectacular space, Hall 90B, is made available along with Wyspa’s and Modelarnia’s own spaces. Located in the legendary Gdansk Shipyard, where the workers’ strikes of 1980 began the process of the disintegration of the Communist bloc, Alternativa looks at the atmosphere of political momentum and its possibilities.


Opening party:
May 28, 2011 7pm

Exhibition on view
29 May–30 September 2011
artistic director: Aneta Szylak

Gdansk Shipyard famously the “Cradle of Solidarity’’ and a key industrial site with in Polish history shall play host to four emerging British artists intending to explore its heritage.


The Artists’ visit marks the final stage of Post Industrial Revolution, an artistic residency exchange developed between the UK and Poland focusing on the former industrial areas of Birmingham and Gdansk, in particular the districts of Digbeth and the Gdansk Shipyard.

The artists from the UK will begin the one month residency from the 6th of May until the 5th of June 2011, using it as a period for research and for the production of new art works directly responding to the Gdansk Shipyard, its historical and social context. These newly create art works will be displayed in an exhibition at Modelarnia, a former industrial space, originally utilized for the building of model ships and part of the Wyspa Progress Foundation. The exhibition will take place from Friday 3rd June until June 17th.

Alternativa to cykl wystaw obudowany szeregiem wydarzeń towarzyszących, który poszukuje nowych dróg dla idei sztuki i jej roli społecznej. Jego idea nawiązuje do tradycji politycznych Gdańska oraz nowych zjawisk w sztuce, które zaczęły pojawiać się w Gdańsku w pierwszej połowie lat osiemdziesiątych.

This summer the Wyspa Institute of Art is exhibiting new works by Klaman that have never been publicly displayed in Poland before.

Affectionately Yours is part of a one year research project that If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is curating at the Dutch Art Institute/MFA ArtEZ since October 2009.