KwieKulik
KwieKulik was the artistic duo of Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek, active between 1971 and 1987.
Since the early 1970s, their radically political art combined artistic activity with everyday life. They pioneered the process of transforming the domain of art into a laboratory for social participation and the formation of grassroots groups capable of achieving goals regardless of the intentions of state authorities. They belonged to the first generation of Polish artists who rejected traditional means of expression and concentrated on performance, 'activities' (the term used by the artists themselves) and the use of media in the mechanical recording and reproduction of images. They continue to be an important point of reference for socially and politically engaged contemporary artists who transpose their practice into new media. (2024)
- Literature
- Marianna Michałowska, "KwieKulik a rzeczywistość", Opcje 1:30, 2000, pp 48–52. (Polish)
- KwieKulik, eds. Łukasz Ronduda and Georg Schollhammer, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2013, 576 pp. Publisher.
- Tomasz Załuski, "Świat podzielony. Geopolityka sztuki według KwieKulik", Sztuka i Dokumentacja 11, 2014, pp 19-41. (Polish)
- Tomasz Załuski, "KwieKulik and the Political Economy of the Potboiler", Third Text 32:4, 2018, pp 392-411. DOI. (English)
- Tomasz Załuski, "Fandom KwieKulik albo niekończący się serial o archiwum", Miejsce 4, 2018. (Polish)
- Marianna Michałowska, "KwieKulik's Performance for the Camera as Documentary Experiment in Art of Polish Neo-Avant-Garde", Journal of Applied Cultural Studies 4, 2019, pp 75-87. (English)
- Tomasz Załuski, "How to Live and Work with Two Artistic Biographies. Zofia Kulik's Archival Drive", in Zofia Kulik. Methodology, My Love, ed. Agata Jakubowska, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2019. (English)
- Tomasz Załuski, "Des photographies comme choses, des choses comme photographies. Les photos-objets du Warsztat Formy Filmowej et la documentation des activités matérielles et spatiales du duo KwieKulik", in Photo/Objet/Concept. Pour une lecture élargie de la photographie dans l'art conceptuel, eds. Larisa Dryansky and Guillaume Le Gall, Peter Lang, and Brussels: Éditions Scientifiques Internationales, 2020, pp 59-78. (French)
- Tomasz Załuski, "The Alternative Official? KwieKulik’s Studio of Activities, Documentation and Propagation as a State-Financed Performative Archive under Real Socialism", in What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond, eds. Emese Kürti and Zsuzsa László, Bielefeld: transcript, 2021, pp 133-149. (English)
- Tobey Yunjing Pan, "KwieKulik through the Lens of Feminism: The Acted out Passiveness of Zofia Kulik and Her Maintenance Work", Third Text 36:3, 2022, pp 241-261. [1] (English)
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