This is a draft of an essay which appears a shorter version in a book accompanying “L’Âge atomique” exhibition curated … More
Category: Cold War
Culture Bunkers
This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book, … More
1980 in Parallax: Architects and Acts of Solidarity
This is a link to a new article that explores the ways in which the rise of the Solidarity independent … More
To the Left of Power? Radical Culture in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
With Ieva Astahovska, Mari Laanements, I organised an online workshop over two days in autumn 2021 on the impact of … 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
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
Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe
In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More
The Peasant in the City
This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More
The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War
This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More
