ARTMargins : Vol. 13.2

The article explains the situation of performance artists in Poland during the transition period before and after 1989. Then it focuses on the first large performance art festival in Poland after 1989, Real Time Story Telling. It was organized in Sopot and Gdańsk in 1991 by Galeria Działań and curated by the outstanding artist and art theorist Jan Świdziński. The article explains the idea of the festival and briefly describes the curatorial activity of the invited international performance artists. The article also outlines the international network of connections between performance art festivals, which depended on the personal relationships between artists who organized them. Finally, it shows how the festival influenced the introduction of Polish performance artists to the international circuit and how it influenced the development of the festival network in Poland.


Articles

“Real Time Story Telling”: A Performance-Art Festival in the Context of International Networks during the Transitional Period in Poland before and after 1989
Małgorzata Kaźmierczak

The Problem with Film: Murayama Tomoyoshi's Variations on the Visible
André Keiji Kunigami

Constellational Modernisms: “Socialist Humanism” and “Contextual Art” in Ion Bitzan and Wanda Mihuleac's Graphic Art of the 1970s
Cristian Nae

Review
Developmental Dilemmas
Tausif Noor


Artist Project
Militant Mappings: A Template Toolkit
Cian Dayrit

Document
Modern Art, Indigeneity, and Nationalism in Paraguay: An Introduction to Josefina Plá's “Ñandutí Crossroads of Two Worlds”
Sofia Gotti

Modern Art, Indigeneity, and Nationalism in Paraguay: An Introduction to Josefina Plá's “Ñandutí Crossroads of Two Worlds”

Ñandutí: Crossroads of Two Worlds: The Lineage and Magic of Ñandutí
Josefina Plá

June 2024.