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Category: Cold War

Atomic Stations and Artificial Environments – Art and Science in Soviet Russia in the 1960s

This is a draft of an essay which appears a shorter version in a book accompanying “L’Âge atomique” exhibition curated … More

Cold War, Communism, history, Nuclear War, nuclear-weapons

Culture Bunkers

This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book, … More

Cold War, Communism, socmodernism

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

Czesław Bielecki, postmodernism

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

Arch Wars, Cracovia, socmodernism

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

folklore, peasant culture, Stalinism

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

Eastern Bloc, new wave, punk, video

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

ballet, Cold War, computer art, cybernetics

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This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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