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Contact: Pairs - Amy Dickson / Jamie Jenkinson

By Anonymous on Mon, 03/07/2017 - 10:45

Amy Dickson and Jamie Jenkinson have both made substantial series of video works with mobile phones, usually with single takes that suggest an intuitive and spontaneous approach to shooting - a mode which they consider intrinsic to their medium. They resist reshooting and post-production. Hence their work foregrounds and promotes the act of looking, embracing a certain amount of wandering and the potential for 'errors'.

Dates:
Monday, July 10, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
The Depot - London, United Kingdom
Punto y Raya Academy 2015

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 27/03/2015 - 07:45

Punto y Raya Academy 2015 is the first International Symposium devoted to abstract art in motion, that will be held from May 7th through 10th at La Casa Encendida in Madrid (Spain), with the participation of over 15 international guests, such as Józef Robakowski, Steven Woloshen, Robert Seidel and Sabrina Schmid, among others.

The programme will feature several masterclasses by the guest artists, round tables, monographic screenings and various live performances.

Dates:
Thursday, May 7, 2015 (All day)
Friday, May 8, 2015 (All day)
Saturday, May 9, 2015 (All day)
Sunday, May 10, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
La Casa Encendida - Madrid, España
Józef Robakowski - My Own Cinema
Józef Robakowski. My Own Cinema is a new publication portraying a precursor of the film neo-avant-garde and the co-creator of the video art scene in Poland. An artist whose image combines that of an experimenter and media analyst with those of an anarchistic neo-Dadaist and self-declared nihilist; heir to the traditions of the avant-garde, enthusiast for cultural peripheries, valued teacher, and indefatigable opponent of institutional hierarchies.

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Books
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The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-1995
The Hidden Decade is a selection of works that are crucial to the history of Polish video art. The ten-year period from 1985 to 1995 was a remarkable era in Polish art: an era when new artistic approaches were taking shape – an era full of social, political and cultural transformation. It started with dissent against the realities of Communist Poland, especially after the repressive martial-law period; it lead to the emergence of a forerunner of the art scene as we know it today.
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DVD
Publisher:
WRO Center
Close-Up: Józef Robakowski – The Energy Manifesto!

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 18/03/2012 - 15:37
Close-Up: Józef Robakowski – The Energy Manifesto!
Tuesday March 27th, 20h
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

Followed by Q&A with the artist

Józef Robakowski is one of the most famous Polish artists and filmmakers associated with the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s. As founder and initiator of various independent film groups and art associations, Robakowski was extremely active in developing a strong independent film scene in Poland. His works are characterized by a marked tendency to transgress various genres and media. Robakowski has been and continues to be reviewed in a fine arts context, as well as within the classical film genre (film festivals and program cinema). His multifarious use of diverse media – photography, video, film, paper works, mechanical picture production, Expanded Cinema, TV broadcast, installation, performance, etc. – contains, on the one hand, a meta-discourse about the guidelines of “reality,” and on the other, a subjective perspective, which is included as “pure” reality appropriation in his (short) films. Robakowski has also contributed to this discourse in various theoretical texts.
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Events
Józef Robakowski: Attention: Light!

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 24/11/2009 - 09:29
Józef Robakowski: Attention: Light!
Opening Thursday, November 26th 2009, from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m.
26.11.2009-03.01.2010
29 Wadeson Street, London E2

“Robakowski’s work is stubbornly autonomic. For decades it remained resistant to dominant trends, preferring cognitive and expressive function to surrendering to current events of artistic life, but becoming, at the same time, its important creative element.”

Józef Robakowski, born in 1939 in Poznan, dedicated all his artistic activity to the inquiry of the nature of film. The artist chose to spend most of his life in Lódz, the city where the circle of Polish pre-war artistic avant-garde once flourished, where the Muzeum Sztuki, first museum of modern art in Poland was established, where the National Film School educated dozens of prominent Polish film artists, including Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda.
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Events