Event overview
Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2014 - Post Punk Then and Now - Agata Pyzik and Michal Wolinski in conversation with Gavin Butt on punk and post-punk in Poland
Agata Pyzik and Michal Wolinski in conversation with Gavin Butt on punk and post-punk in Poland
23 October 5.00-7.00pm
Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 309
Michal Wolinski (b. Warsaw, 1976) is a curator, writer on contemporary art and the founder and editor-in-chief of Piktogram Talking Pictures Magazine. He runs the Warsaw-based private institution Piktogram/ Bureau of Loose Associations. He has curated numerous exhibitions, several of them on relationships between art and punk/ postpunk subculture in socialist Poland: Down with the Pimps of Art! Art-Punk Relations (with ?ukasz Ronduda), Finnancial Centre, Warsaw 2006; I Could Live in Africa (with Nicolaus Schafhausen), Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim 2009, Witte de With CCA, Rotterdam 2010, MoMA, Warsaw, 2010; BWA Awangarda, Wrocaw 2011; Knaf/ Ko?o Klipsa/ Dno, Piktogram/BLA, Warsaw 2012; Psychopaper, Piktogram/BLA, Warsaw 2013; Jerzy Truszkowski 69 = 1/BITCH, Piktogram/BLA, Warsaw 2014. His essays and interviews have appeared in Piktogram, Metropolis M and Mousse, frieze, Artforum magazines, among others.
Michal will focus on Art and Punk or Post-Punk subcultures relationships, and on those forms of reaction to the 1980s reality in communist Poland that were based on an anarchic revolt against the jammed system, on searching for alternative social economies, on spontaneous, primitive means of communication, on self-organisation, DIY, recycling, copying, exchange.
Agata Pyzik is a Polish writer, active in the UK since 2010 and author of Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East & West (2014, Zero Books). Her work focuses on art, politics, music and culture. She writes for various magazines, including The Wire, Guardian, New Statesman, Calvert Journal, Icon, New Humanist and Frieze . In Poor But Sexy she looks at the abandoned scenes of history in Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West, through historical and political movements and the development of popular cultural forms.
Agata will focus on the notion of popular culture in the Soviet Bloc - was youth culture possible in real socialism and what consequences it had for the development of counter culture and, eventually, punk music? What was their rebellion, given they lived under reversed conditions than their western counterparts? And is certain 'dissident' mode of music perhaps still present in Polish popular music, still under capitalism?
Gavin Butt is Professor of Visual Cultures & Performance at Goldsmiths
‘Post Punk Then and Now’ is a series of lectures, in-conversation events and film screenings exploring post-punk’s popular modernist search for the new in the very broadest of contexts. The series will take in the changing cultural and political conditions between the 1970s and the 21st century.
Chairs: Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun & Mark Fisher
The series also features two film screenings:
Radio On (dir: Chris Petit, 1979)
23 October
11.30am
Cinema, RHB
The Song of the Shirt (dir: Sue Clayton, 1979)
27 November 2.00pm
RHB 342
…all welcome
Dates & times
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23 Oct 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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