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The Peasant in the City

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here.…

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…

Eastern Bloc, new wave, punk, video

The Poster Remediated – installation shots and press

These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the…

Poster Museum, Warsaw International Poster Biennale

Modernism Redux

In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and…

Czech modernism, Olgoj Chorchoj, postmodernism

The Poster Remediated

Extracts from a longer essay exploring the future of the poster which will be published in Warsaw in June 2016…

advertising, graphic design, posters, public space

All Power to the People

This is a draft version of a short essay which will appear in a book accompanying ‘The Sixties: A Worldwide…

Black Panthers, cuban posters

The Future is Between Your Legs: Sex, Art and Censorship in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

This is a draft version of a text which will be published by Nottingham Contemporary in 2016.     In…

FV 112/15, Ladik, OHO, pornography, Sexuality, Yugoslavia

Hasior’s Dreck

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

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…

Berendt, photography

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…

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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