This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More
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Visual Ethics After Communism
This theme issue of Martor examines the ethical questions raised by the publication and display of images and objects associated … 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