- - - 26.07.2009

Pakolska Loft - Proposal for the Interzone project [Nodes: Interzone, kaleidoscopic lounge, dreams]

Pakolska's artwork will evolve from different directions and at the first stage it will be a research about places for meetings, hanging out, resting and recreations. All collected materials will next lead to various concepts of our own space. In this space, there will be a part where we will introduce our research (in forms of scrapbooks, photocopies and films) and other parts will constitute a set of arrangements and patterns, the kaleidoscopic lounge. We will not present works but rather build up a loft. And since this domestic space will be under construction it will be partly a workshop too.

Additional idea to consider it is about collecting Dreams. The word 'dream' can be understood in two ways: events or images occurring while sleeping or something that you want to happen very much. All dreams can be collected beforehand (by post or e-mails) and be incorporated in a design of our loft.

A few references in art for the Pakolska Loft project are listed below.
Gordon Matta-Clark did in 1973 a piece called Graffiti Truck. The artist invited people form Bronx to paint his truck which later he cut off for purpose of exhibiting or selling to collectors.
Martin Kippenberger's Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika" from 1994 incorporates various chairs and tables on the pitch. Furniture used in the installation range from the old mass produce to the pieces of well known designers. The sets of chairs and tables are for conducting job interviews and what is more important everybody in Kippenberger's world gets the post.
During the show Software in 1970 Douglas Huebler made a piece called Secrets. People attending the exhibition could drop to the box secrets which were later published by Huebler as a book.
In 2005 Rirkrit Tiravanija created an installation in London which was a reconstruction of his apartment. In two mirrored symmetric parts of the house visitors could use a kitchen, a living room or a bedroom.

- - - 24.07.2009

Ever-changing Zone [Nodes: Interzone, Artwork at here and now]

Interzone (International Zone) is a place, where Individuals form different Worlds can coexist. There is plenty places like this on the world, but what is more important- this type of the place can emerge everywhere. The scale is not important but rather conditions which allow for cooperation. Flexibility of rules and relations is essential. Openness to various factors is desirable.

Imagine a space which is open for public for a month and where diverse visual and sound events are taking place. In such a place one visual layer can merge with another one and the next day all of this can transform into something else. Visiting this place you do not face an unfinished piece, you rather become a witness of the process of making, where each moment or a time interval is final. Creating forms, screening images, making sounds, conversations and other simultaneous activities are equally important and constitute an artwork at here and now. Similar concept of capturing a flow of life (or lifestyle) emerged during making films by Andy Warhol in his Factory. The initial script was proposed but all situations were filmed and contributed to the final film. Filming was a strategy of catching all unpredicted interactions. With this attitude the scenario is only a provocation and a set of improvisations.

Proposed concept of the space, where you can approach artworks being in constant change, offers opportunity to focus on the present and possible ways of being inside of the work. The whole project is performative, ephemeral and constant at the same time. It can be preserve by photographs, selected objects, writing materials and mental experience.

The constantly open space and the one which allows participation is setting up three-dimensional artworks even if they are in a form of a drawing on the paper or a painting on the wall. A possibility of involvement in creating the Zone creates a social depth where not only visual forms emerge but ideas, styles and commentaries can be formulate/exchange. A specific focus range can come up by articulating inspirations and references. Although the Zone is flexible it is important to delineate her shape and by doing that to think how we can use it and interact with this territory. What is important there for us?

- - - 17.07.2009

Sitting area. Sketch #1 [Nodes: Places to hang-out, Floor sitting]

- - - 15.07.2009

Playgrounds & Hang-outs [Nodes: Fitnessground, Places to hang-out]

- - - 14.07.2009

East London housing estate [Nodes: Anti-sitting design]




East London painting [Nodes: Mates, Multi-ethnic friends]




East London mosaic [Nodes: Community statements, Connections between Generations]

- - - 07.07.2009



Emily Jacir, 'Stazione', Proposal for Venice Vaporetto Stops, 2008-2009.
Description of the project. [Nodes: Cross-culture, Culture encounters]

- - - 03.07.2009

  "First, I do not make exhibitions in the conventional sense so your full schedule is of no concern to me. My approach is to make do with whatever is possible while stretching our notion of the possible. I use the urban fabric in its raw, abandoned state transforming unused structures or spaces into revitalized areas. The actual space in its final stage is the 'exhibition' and hopefully will have a life of its own within community."
July 28, 1976 Letter to Florent Bex about the project which had became the Office Baroque piece, Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp.

  Gordon Matta-Clark hoped to create "a 'non-u-mental' work that the city could go on enjoying for a certain period after its realization."

Image: Office Baroque documentation [Mhuka, Antwerp] [Nodes: 'non-u-mental' work, urban fabric]

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East London artworks [Nodes: Community statements, Local and Universal symbols]