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Király’s Immoderate Fashion

In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … 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

Hasior’s Dreck

  This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More

Białoszewski, dreck, Hasior, Polański, Schulz, starocie

Every Single Crash – Filip Berendt’s art

This text was written to accompany Filip Berendt’s show at L’étrangère, London in 2015. Working in Taiwan a few years … More

Berendt, photography

Nervous Systems: New Machines and Bodies in Polish Art and Film after the Thaw

This essay was published in the catalogue accompanying the Cosmos Calling! exhibition at Zacheta, Warsaw, summer 2014.     In … More

art, Krzysztof Wodiczko, PRL, technology, Workshop of the Film Form

Pop Effects in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

In September 1974 Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid exhibited four works at an exhibition of nonconformist art in Moscow, which … More

consumerism, eastern europe, Pop Art

Andrzej Wróblewski and the Politics of Testimony

In September 2013, I gave a lecture on the great painter, Andrzej Wróblewski, at the Museum of Modern Art in … More

Executions, Stalinism, Testimony, Wajda, Wróblewski

Signora Ladik

This piece was published in the epiphanies section of the June 2013 issue of the The Wire ♦ The centre … More

Experimental Music, Peter Strickland, Yugoslavia

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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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