Media art in Poland

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Summary

Predecessors

Experimental film, avantgarde film

Resources

Interactive environments and installations

Computer and computer-aided art

Video art

Background
  • Video art is entirely incompatible with the utilitarian character of that institution (television), it is the artistic movement, which through its independence, denounces the mechanism of the manipulation of other people. Robakowski, 1976 [1]
Artists
  • Jozef Robakowski
  • Lodz-Kaliska Group
  • 1980s: Izabella Gustowska, Zbigniew Libera, Jerzy Truszkowski
  • late 1980s: Yach-Film group: Yach Paszkiewicz, Dorota Podlaska, Bombela Kuich, Andrzej Kuich, Andrzej Wasik. Worked on the border of film and video. Paszkiewicz was shooting on Super 8 film and transferring onto magnetic tape. In his case relationship between video and music was evident. His later career as a musical videoclip maker seems to be a consequence of the previously made artistic decisions.
  • late 1980s: Krzysztof Skarbek. Brought into video art his previous film experiences, and connected video with musical performance and concert. The space of Skarbek's activities is the world of ritual, para-magical behaviours. Vital expression of his works is a vehhicle for his previous reflection on reality in its different aspects. The artist's commentary to his tape Nasz pr dki beton-Aront (Our Quick Concrete-Aront) from 1989 - a very important work for the development of the new video art in Poland - shows his position very clearly: "The action is laid in a 'New industrial Village'. People practising their rituals in masks and holy colours accept the severe unapproachable reality they live in. They try to accustom themselves to it by means of magic activities. The film reveals that what effects our senses in extremities i.e. Promethean Struggle, Rebellion, Heroism, Good Humour. CONCRETE structures-modules are like holy statues - ALTARS or the primitive Bush. Secular powers crash together love and prevalence here."
  • 1990s: Jan Brzuszek, Barbara Konopka, Miroslaw Emil Koch, Maciej Walczak, Wojciech Zamiara
  • late 1990s: Marek Wasilewski represents quite cool but in the same time very sensitive, and in many cases very humoures poetics. His interest in theoretical aspects of video art makes his art close (but in a very specific way) to analytic video. Piotr Wyrzykowski puts into focus the problem of the body with its various connotations, and in the same time he is very much occupied with the problems of interactivity. Anna Kuczynska and Katarzyna Radkowska introduce into the Polish video problems connected with gender and femininity. The Lyyying Community present deconstructive, aggressive, dadaist-like attitude towards problems of video form, communication and aesthetics. Jacek Szleszynski and Cezariusz Andrejczuk develop computer animation forms. Jan Koza makes specific folk-poetry-animation-video. The variety of genres and forms makes the Polish video art nowadays very rich and polymorphic.
Works
  • first video works in Poland, both tapes and installations, were made in 1973
Events
  • presentations of video art traditionally organised in galleries since the 1970s
  • In 1989 the first edition of WRO - International Sound Basis Visual Art Festival was organised in Wroclaw (Piotr Krajewski, Violetta Krajewska, Zbigniew Kupisz). After three annual appearances the festival is working as biennial now.
  • In the CCA, besides regular video presentations, an annual international festival of experimental cinema and video art is held.
  • In 1994 the first video festival in Lublin took place
Education
  • 1980s: academies of fine arts (Torun and Wroclaw)
Centres
  • Polish Video Art Data Bank, *1988 in Lodz, founded by Ryszard Kluszczynski, a non-profit organisation for media culture
  • In 1990 Kluszczynski founded Film & Video Department in The Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.
Articles
  • R. W. Kluszczynski, "Avant-garde Film and Video in Poland. An Historical Outline", in: The Middle Of Europe. The festival of avant-garde films and video from Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ed. R. W. Kluszczynski, Warsaw 1991, p. 52-73
  • R. W. Kluszczynski, "Video Art in Poland. An Historical Outline", in: Ostranenie. 1. International Video Festival at the Bauhaus Dessau, catalogue ed. by I. Arns and E. Tharandt, pp. 148-152.
  • Ryszard Kluszczynski: "New Poland - New Video. Some reflections on Polish video art since 1989". In: translocation_new media/art. 1999. [2]

Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art

Media theory

1990s - 2000s

Others

Other bibliography

  • ↑ J. Robakowski, Video art - szansa podejscia rzeczywistosci, [in:] idem, Wypisy ze sztuki, Lublin 1978, p. 28
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