This a film of a talk that I gave at Artpool’s 40th anniversary conference in Budapest in February 2020 on … More
Category: Eastern Europe
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
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
On Fashion and Revolution
This short text was commissioned by the curators of Left Performance Histories, a pioneering and thought-provoking exhibition at NGBK, Berlin … More