The independent institution managed by Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek in their tiny apartment in the Praga district in Warsaw – “The Workshop of Activity, Documentation and Dissemination” – was a domain of a permanent problematisation of the boundary between the public and private sphere, imposed by the Peoples’ Republic of Poland. The artists tried to define the relations between those spheres not upon the basis of binary opposition but permeation and the creation of their unique “community”.
In the essay, the author, Łukasz Ronduda, relates his own work as an artist, a film director, an art historian and curator, discussed in the light of the cinematic turn and the formation of common ground between cinema and contemporary art in both artistic and institutional sense. Ronduda looks closely at his two full-length feature films: Performer (2015) and Serce miłości (Heart of Love) (2017) and highlights their wider context. The first frame of reference spans from experimental films to contemporary full-length productions dedicated to wide audience. The second reference is his own work involving academic research, curating, writing a novel and the creation of a found footage film. In this self-presentation, Ronduda discloses his different attempts to find the right medium to speak about and analyze contemporary art. The full-length film turned out to be particularly effective medium in its ability to express the truth by means of fiction, placing him between creation and institutional structure. Film as a medium of interpreting art seems to productively question fixed boundaries between research, criticism and art.
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