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We come to America in 2002, one year after September 11 and one year before the Polish people could join the United Europe and return to normality for the first time since the nazi troops attacked Poland (1939), starting World War II. After Hitler destroyed our world, the Yalta Agreement divided Europe for 47 years, displacing nations from our homelands and giving permission for the extending of another totalitarian system onto East and Central Europe. We use in our performance a very simple story about the nazi pilot, well known in history of art, some pictures, American flag, some small things and two dogs (toys) as metaphor of warm feelings and as a hope for the future without military aggression and the actions of redemption from the people (maybe).


Wladislaw Kazmierczak started with performance art in 1979. He has created over 150 performances in Poland, Japan, Korea, Canada, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Belarus, Lithuania, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovakia, Romania, Mexico, Indonesia and Ireland. Since 1993, Wladislaw has curated and organized the International Performance Art Festival "Castle of Imagination" in Poland. He is the author of essays on performance art and Director of Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk, Poland. In 1997 started with duo performances together with Ewa Rybska.

 

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Currency 2002 Day 1
-Thursday, Oct.3:

Fumiko Takahashi (Japan)

John G. Boehme (Canada)

Pekka Luhta (Finland)

Jessica Buege (US)

Julie Bacon (UK)

Day 2
-Friday, Oct.4:

Ema Villanueva (Mexico)

Wladislaw Kazmierczak-Ewa Rybska (Poland)

Jamie McMurry (US)

Day 3
-Saturday, Oct.5:

Her/She Senses (US)

Irma Optimist (Finland)

Derek Horton (US)

Chumpon Apisuk (Thailand)

Alexander Del Re (Chile)

Uto Gusztav (Romania)