Talk and performance 7 February-07
A happening evening at Weld 7th February 19.00, free entrance. Tomas Håkanson will talk about the legendary artist, theorist, director, stage designer and writer Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990).
Performance by Sedzia Glowny (Aleksandra Kubiak and Karolina Wiktor) one of Poland’s most spoken about performance groups. Weld in cooperation with the Polish Institute.
The performance group Sedzia Glowny ”Head Referee”, existing of Karolina Wiktor (1979) and Aleksandra Kubiak (1978), stage their characters in many different ways. Their work make up a long tale about how much there is which is caused by ourselves and how rarely we reflect over it. The artists always emphasize that they constitute an organism. In one of their pieces they place themselves in a giant hamburger on the Polish and the American flag.
They want with their work to bend socially given gender stereotypes and normative sexuality, as well as debate around acceptable behaviours and to question the dominant language. The group has performed at Intermedialt forum – Teatr Bazart.fr, Centre for Contemporary Art, Le Madame and M25 in Warsaw, as well as the festival ”Terra Polska” in Berlin.
Sedzia Glowny's performance is a unique creation for the evening at Weld.
Tomas Håkanson’s background constitutes of Polish, translation and theatre studies in both Stockholm and Krakow. He has worked at Kulturskolan in Stockholm and as a translator of Polish and English literature, and has translated novels by Andrzej Stasiuk and Orhan Pamuk, as well as poetry by Jacek Podsiadlo and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki.
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) artistic director, stage designer, painter, writer, actor in his own productions, art theorist and lector at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Inspired by constructive-, dada- and surrealism, it is said about Kantor that he is as important to Polish art as Andy Warhol is to the American art scene. His piece Dead Class (1975) was one of the most famous theatre pieces during the 1970’s.