Dorota Grubba-Thiede ‘Non-duties’ — READY, STEADY, ART! — 2nd edition
31st of July Dorota Grubba-Thiede ‘Non-duties’
— 11 am, BWA Gallery — the workshop for children, teenagers and anyone else who is interested
— 1 pm — the action in urban space
— 6 pm, BWA Gallery — the lecture
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
The workshop ‘Non-duties’ for children, teenagers and anyone else who is interested, is a soft exercise in contemporary art analysis. The starting point is ‘The Head of Saint John the Baptist’ by Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz, 1975. The workshop aims to encourage participants to develop their capability for ‘reading’ art, including contemporary art. At the end of the workshop we use these thinking processes to build an exhibition and search for an unconventional way of displaying this laboratory material. As for the action in urban space, we will walk around the city with a transparent sculpture, whose form is responsive to movement and modification. Walking a sculpture in a city is a kind of paraphrase of ‘placing a sculpture under arrest’ by Przemysław Kwiek, which happened in 1968 in Warsaw. Walks in different areas of the city will be counterpointed by short actions — ‘presentations of a figure’ (animation of the mobile, transformable sculpture). The lecture focuses on the category of ‘non-duties’ in art, relating to actions by a selection of alternative artists from the 1960s until 2013.
