Info
book edition:
book, 220 pages + 2 x DVD, Polish/English
edited by Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska and Piotr Krajewski
Wroclaw, 2005
online edition:
revised and enlarged edition
published on video.wrocenter.pl
2013
Introduction:
“Public space has become one of the central motifs in discussions of contemporary art, culture and society. Its material and symbolic development has created an intense challenge for artistic practice, not because of its potential for exhibition, but because of the complex new questions of representation, persuasion and communication it raises.
From Monument to Market: Video Art and Public Spaces comprised of two complementary parts: a collection of video works by Polish artists on DVD, and a series of articles inspired by the collection, written specifically for this publication by an international array of curators and critics involved with issues in new art.
The collection of video works that formed the basis for this publication was presented in its original form at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the «salon transmediale» in Berlin. Thanks to its focus on the issue of the language of art in relation to historical changes, this (now expanded) selection can be viewed repeatedly from different angles. It is a broad retrospective of Polish video art juxtaposing works from the 1970s with very recent ones, representing a variety of approaches, illustrating the assorted roles that the artist can play and the different mechanisms that art can set into motion – sometimes unexpectedly – when it meets public space.
The collection of video works can also be viewed as the source material for the commentaries in this book: the artwork that served to inspire an outstanding series of critical articles on contemporary Polish art by an international panel of authors.”
Contents
Introduction to the Internet Edition (2013)
Foreword to the first edition (2005)
Piotr Krajewski
From Monument to Market
Andreas Broeckmann
Public Production: Constructing the Public Sphere
Erkki Huhtamo
From All-Embracing to Ephemeral: The Art of Public Interventions
Marielle Nitoslawska
Monument. Market. Manhattan
Łukasz Ronduda
Subversive Strategies in the Media Arts: Józef Robakowski’s Found Footage and Video Scratch
Margarita Schultz
Some Remarks About Video Art in Poland
Bojana Pejic
Girls in Town: A Gloss About the Past
Dieter Daniels
Why We Need a DVD Publication About the History of Video Art
Piotr Krajewski
From Monument to Market: The World Re-Coded
Check out DVD 1
Program 1
Józef Robakowski, Art is Power!, 1985, 9:10 (slideshow)
Monika Grzesiewska, Faster, Easier…, 2001, 3:51
Zygmunt Rytka, Retransmission, 1979-1983, 14:54
Mirosław E. Koch, Proteo, 1991, 3:30
Piotr Bikont, Andrzej Chętko i Grażyna Gradoń, Revolutionary Etude, 1991, 15:00 (excerpt)
Władysław Kaźmierczak, Crash, 1994, 9:09
Piotr Wyrzykowski and Iliya Chichkan, Atomic Love, 2002, 7:56
Mirosław E. Koch, The Cormorants: The Main Station Episode, 1989/1990, 9:20
Wspólnota Leeeżeć, Lock Up Mandela!, 1995, 4:51
Jacek Niegoda, The Dissenter, 1995-2005, 5:18
Igor Krenz, Holes in Time, 2003/04, 2:36
Grupa Azorro, We Like it a Lot, 2001, 7:35
Bonus tracks:
Check out DVD 2
Program 2
Andrzej K. Urbański, Wittgenstein 3.262, 1997/2002, 1:41
Grupa Azorro, Can Artist Make Anything?, 2002, 7:17
Zuzanna Janin, Fight, 2002, 9:07
Janek Koza, The Game (from the series Welcome in Cybersex), 1999, 3:13
Mirosław E. Koch, The Cormorants: The Smoke Episode, 1991, 6:51
Wspólnota Leeeżeć, Taxi, 1991, 2:39
Arkadiusz Bagiński, The Communicators, 2002, 3:45
Jacek Niegoda, Why Bother?, 2004, 4:57
Józef Robakowski, From My Window, 1978-2000, 19:00 (slideshow)
Bonus tracks:
Józef Robakowski, Cars, Cars!, 1985, 1:47
Wspólnota Leeeżeć, Lyyying Dead, or Testing the Miracle Theory, 1990, 7:32
