Becoming Urban or Getting Bogged Down?

Zachęta | cinema room (entrance from Burschego street)
free entry

Becoming Urban or Getting Bogged Down?

Siarhei Liubimau and Joanna Kusiak

Siarhej Liubimau — lecturer in Sociology, Tourism Studies and CriticalUrbanism at the European Humanities University, where he is also the coordinator of the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism. Completed his Ph.D. on cross-border urban spaces at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. Researcher of urban transformations in Luxembourg, the Praga District in Warsaw, the border cities of Zgorzelec/ Görlitz and Terespol/Brest, Vilnius and Minsk.

Joanna Kusiak — sociologist, activist, Ph.D student at Warsaw Univeristy and Technische Universität Darmstad.

multimedia room
entrance from Burschego Street
free entrance

event accompanying the exhibition
  • 24.05 – 21.08.2011
    Opening the Door?
    Belarusian Art Today

    This exhibition attempts to provide Belarusians with a possibility to look at their art from the outsider’s perspective, without common taboos. Most of the works in the project, in one or another way, reflect upon Belarusian society and its concerns today, but only a few dare to openly express things that ‘we don’t talk about’. Potentially the project can open new channels of communication for Belarus’ comparatively isolated and internationally unknown art scene. In other words, the successful realization of it can leave the door slightly ajar.

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  • 29.08 (Fri) 12:30
    Workshops
    (in Polish)
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  • 29.08 (Fri) 17:00
    Workshop for adults in English
    Color and Space: Geometric Compositions Inspired by Fangor
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  • 31.08 (Sun) 10:45
    Yoga at Zachęta
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  • 31.08 (Sun) 12:00
    Food / Memories. Perservation
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  • 31.08 (Sun) 12:15
    Sunday guided tours of current exhibitions
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    Sonic Horizon: struktura współbrzmienia // Olga Anna Markowska
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    Se(a)ns sztuki
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    Thursday guided tours of current exhibitions
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  • 05.09 (Fri) 17:00
    Forest in a jar
    (in Polish)
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  • 06.09 (Sat) 14:15
    Saturday ArtWalk
    Guided tour in English
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  • 06.09 (Sat) 16:00
    Екскурсія українською мовою
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  • 07.09 (Sun) 10:00
    Nature walk with Michał Książek
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