Post-atheistic religiosity – a talk in Budapest

This a film of a talk that I gave at Artpool’s 40th anniversary conference in Budapest in February 2020 on … More

Facing Space – Jarek Kozakiewicz

This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Flickering Self-Portraits

This essay appeared in Mari Laanemets’ excellent Abstraction as an Open Experiment issued by Tallinn Art Hall / Estonian Academy … More

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 … More

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 … More

Punky Samizdat

This essay was written for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in 2019 curated by Slavs and Tatars. ‘Idiots … More