Monday, May 13th | 6:00 p.m. | Światowid Cinema: Sala Duża (Large Auditorium)
Corporal memory, awareness of place: chat with director Jaśmina Wójcik Monday after the film “Symphony of The Ursus Factory” by Jaśmina Wójcik
In Polish only
Partner: Institute of Philosophy, University of Silesia in Katowice
"The Symphony of the Ursus Factory" is the fruit of a project which spanned several years and involved the director’s interaction with former employees of one of Poland’s most renowned manufacturing plants. How did their workplace impact their corporal awareness? How was the human body applied within the mechanism the factory was? How does returning there after many years affect the memory and the body? During the meeting with the director we will bring up the question of post-industrial sites in the context of postmodern urban space and the philosophy of place.
Our guest:
Jaśmina Wójcik: an artist devoted to activism and community-focused practice. PhD and lecturing professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 2016, she won the main award at the cinematic competition held by the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art and the Polish Film Institute for The Symphony of the Ursus Factory. In 2015, she was awarded (jointly with Iza Jasińska, Pat Kulka and Igor Stokfiszewski) the Warsaw Cultural Education Programme Grand Prix for the Fabryka: Ursus 2014 project, an artistic undertaking integrated with the space of the former manufacturing plant in Ursus. Also in 2015, she took part in the project entitled Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons. As a member of the Warsaw project team she was one of the originators of Miasto – Wspólna Sprawa, an unofficial coalition of Warsaw-based initiatives for the protection of public spaces.
Host:
Mariola Sułkowska-Janowska, PhD: lecturing professor at the Silesian University Institute of Philosophy and the Department of Dance of the Krakow Theatre Arts Academy. Grantee of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Wassenaar. She is fascinated by the aesthetics and the philosophy of modern art. As part of her collaboration with the international research collective CULTMEDIA she investigates, among other topics, the influence of modern media on artistic practice, urban space aesthetics and interpersonal relations. Keen promoter of knowledge on contemporary art.
