This a film of a talk that I gave at Artpool’s 40th anniversary conference in Budapest in February 2020 on…
Facing Space – Jarek Kozakiewicz
This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who…
A Revolution In Sound: Inside The Polish Radio Experimental Studio
An extract from my book, Ultra Sounds. The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio, introducing the Polish Radio Experimental…
Modernizm realny około 1981 roku
If you read Polish, here is a long essay on ‘real existing Modernism’ in the PRL. Click here. it appears…
Guernica: Warsaw, London, Munich, New York
This essay on the afterlives of Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ appeared in Polish in Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi…
Modernism and the Spectres of the Past in Piłsudski’s Poland
I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in…
Flickering Self-Portraits
This essay appeared in Mari Laanemets’ excellent Abstraction as an Open Experiment issued by Tallinn Art Hall / Estonian Academy…
How socmodernist buildings became landmarks … again.
This lecture was given at the Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe) in November 2019. The theme of the event was the…
Space in Socialist and Postsocialist Cities – Divided or Shared?
This short essay was published in Helene Doudova, ed., Shared Cities Atlas. Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central…
Punky Samizdat
This essay was written for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in 2019 curated by Slavs and Tatars. ‘Idiots…
