ALTERNATIVA OPENING PROGRAM 25 -27. 05. 2012

25.05 Friday

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Professional Media Press Preview and curator guided tour – conference room / Wyspa Institute of Art

3:00 p.m. Alternativa 2010 - 2011 - movie by Elvin Flamingo - preview screening - conference room / Wyspa Institute of Art

5:00 p.m. Alfredo Cramerotti - Tagging and Other Amenities of Contemporary Life (lecture in English, Polish translation) – conference room / Wyspa Institute of Art

9:00 p.m. PARIAH (R&S / London) – Buffet Club


26.05 Saturday

6:00 p.m.  Alternativa official opening - Hall 90 B

8:00 p.m. Szelest Spadających Papierków – concert, Hall 90 B

9:00 p.m. Pink Freud - concert, Hall 90 B

10:30 p.m. after party - Buffet Club
exhibitions open until midnight


27.05 Sunday

2:00 p.m. Pascal Gielen - Biennale and the art scene: post-institution in post-Ford creativity factory (lecture in English, Polish translation) – conference room / Wyspa Institute of Art

8:00 p.m. NILS PROJECT (Paris) - premiere concert / Buffet Club

Katarzyna Lewandowska - w meeting within the framework of re.act.feminism #2, Wyspa Institute of Art:

12th of April (Thursday)
6 PM / Wyspa Institute of Art
Admission free


A female artist became a Weird Creature, a Freak of Nature, a Peculiarity, an Exception, a Weirdie. Because she denied nature (the nature of a woman). The Disobedience towards the omniscient Father, the Other, Phallus, Language, Harmony, Mind, Sight, Constancy, and Logos permitted her to retain her identity and her feminine "I", to float naked in the world of instincts, develop the feminine creative power and wisdom. The essence of the art of presented artists is total freedom, unleashed imagination, unrestrained desire, carnal love. They tell shamelessly about lust, the sensual perception of the world, „the parched body". Creation is a natural need and an inner necessity for these artists. They scoop up space to give it back transformed under the form of perverse female phantasms – banal, crazy, ecstatic, dangerous and tabooed.

Katarzyna Lewandowska (born in 1973 in Łódź), an art historian and feminist, Buddhist. A lecturer of art history at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruñ. She co-operates with the CSW, the Wozownia Gallery in Toruñ and the Institute for the Middle and Far East Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Her interests concentrate on carnality in contemporary art and she often restores to the discourse of feminist philosophy (Lucy Irigaray, Helene Cixous) as a source of specific language, which incorporates other senses than sight into the analysis of art. She lives in Toruń.