Idiot Heroes

Ah! A long break! Shame Piotr. Shame!

The secret's in the squidge!

"Squeeze me. Come on, don't be shy. There. Feel that? That's squidge power, that is. Deliciously chewy fruitiness bursting with energy to help keep you fuelled up and ready for action. But don't take my squidginess too literally- I'm low in fat too." Hungry?

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Kalinka was born

Kalina Jędrusik and two rascals? Yes, "No, no! Don't wake me up!" is definitely a real life fantasy. A little bit of tease - a video still and few production shots.

Kalina Jędrusik - No, No, Don't Wake Me Up - some tim in late 60's.

How new is new?

The new exhibition in Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw offers the new understanding of "new" in sculpture. Is there really a chance to define the term, which I dared to use three times in the previous sentence, by building up more an more relations between the contemporary sculpture and modernism, which the exhibition consciously aims for? 

Martin Boyce, one of the artists participating in the show, offers the following answer - "Generally speaking, what you look at comes from the past, but I would like to bring it to the present and check what time has done to it". I have a feeling I have heard a sentence of this kind before. Is "new" possible? Really? I would like to think that it is, at least conceptually. Such is the proposition of the exhibition too. New Sculpture? proclaims New Modernism, which identifies points of interaction between reconfigured present and its original home.    

Artists participating in this international group show include: Martin Boyce, Thea Djordjadze, Kasia Fudakowski, Jerzy Goliszewski, Wade Guyton, Mai-Thu Perret, Monika Sosnowska and Tatiana Trouvé. 

In Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, pl. Małachowskiego 3, 00-916 Warszawa, until the 13th of May. Read more.

*Mai-Thu Perret with Ligia Dias, La Fée Électricité, 2005, coll. Valeria Napoleone, London

Nose enters the frame first, then the rest...

A tip of my nose and both hands and a torso dressed in white immortalized in Emily Wardill's Fulll Firearms

What a great experience it was to work as the production assistant and act as a waiter (above all!) in Emily Wardill's new feature-length Fulll Firearms. Though the film will have its premiere in Hackney Picture House in London on the 26th of April 2012, it can be previewed in Serpentine Gallery, three times a day, every day until the 28th of March as a part of the Edgware Road Centre for Possible Studies.

About the film:
Fulll Firearms narrates the story of Imelda, a woman in her 40s who inherits a fortune from her father, an arms manufacturer. The film tells of how Imelda sets out to build a house to host the ghosts of the people killed by the products of her father's business. As she builds the house, a number of people begin to move in and squat the house, whom Imelda believes to be the ghosts. Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House the film articulates, in the tradition of the melodrama, issues of displacement, storytelling, and the difficulties of communication. (Serpentine Gallery).

Japanese Coquette

Having seen the amazing performance of Terayama’s original collaborator Henrikku Morisaki in Tate Modern lat night, I have come to conclusion that I must have been a Japanese coquette in my previous life.