POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK

FALL 2013

pc i - NY Fall 201 3

a r t 6 JaN sawka retrospectiVe 8 Bęc ZmiaNa at the New York art Book Fair 16 perForma 13 26 agNiesZka kuraNt at the sculptureceNter

l i t e r a t u r e & h u m a N i t i e s 2 taBlet warsaw 4 oN the roaD to BaBaDag at the europeaN Book cluB 5 FouND iN traNslatioN awarD 2013 10 taDeusZ DąBrowski 's reaDiNg tour aND omi resiDeNcY 20 the origiNs aND impact oF worlD war i coNFereNce 28 New literature Form europe 2013

F i l m 14 marek tomasZ pawłowski's the ruNawaY 30 polish womeN iN Film

m u s i c 11 lXmp: west coast tour 12 JaNusZ prusiNowski trio 21 NY earlY music celeBratioN 2013: pro musica poloNica 10 aN eVeNiNg with krZYsZtoF peNDerecki 23 witolD lutosławski: a ceNteNNial triBute

r e s i D e N c i e s 34 DaNce 35 V isual arts

a B o u t u s 36 p o l i s h c u l t u r a l i N s t i t u t e N e w Y o r k

letter from the director

As always, the Polish Cultural Institute's new brochure promises many new encounters with Polish culture and art. This season, we are offering a balance of the traditional and contemporary, of continuity and new adventures. We hope that our fellow travelers will not only find culture of the highest quality in these offerings, but will also greet them with openness to new experiences, ideas, and personalities.

Last spring, we sent a group of New York journalists from Tablet Magazine to Warsaw for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Writer David Samuels offers an assessment of this cooperative venture.

In mid-September, we invite you to an exhibition of the work of Jan Sawka. Just after the conclusion of the artist’s retrospective in the National Museum in Kraków, we will have a chance to get to know his American period.

The Bęc Zmiana Foundation from Warsaw will present its publications for the first time at the New York Art Book Fair.

We are screening Marek Pawłowski’s film, The Runaway, recounting the little known history of a bold prison break from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Much music awaits us—first the US tour of the Prusinowski Trio, advocates for Polish folk music, and also a two-week festival of Polish early music, presented in partnership with the Early Music Foundation. Then, leaping to the Twentieth Century, we have invited Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki on the occasion of his 80th birthday for a retrospective of his chamber works at Symphony Space in New York.

November, above all will be the performance art biennial, PERFORMA, featuring the Polish Pavilion Without Walls, a special PERFORMA project presenting the roots of performance art in Poland, alongside the work of the youngest generation of emerging artists.

We will conclude the season and the year with a celebration of the centennial of the birth of Witold Lutosławski, one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. Steven Stucky will bring us closer to Lutosławski’s work in the program, "Lutosławski and His Music."

Beyond that, please meet our artists and dancers in residence, get to know the winner of this year’s Found-in-Translation Award, take a look at Polish film with "women in the lead," and we would also propose some Polish literature for the long autumn nights.

LOGO FINAL

C=0, M=100, Y=100, K=0

and black k=100

Pantone chip 73-1

Jerzy Onuch

TableT WarsaWIn an effort to connect the historical past of Jews and Poles with the living present, Tablet Magazine—America's leading Jewish publication, with over 500,000 monthly individual readers—and the Polish Cultural Institute partnered for a week-long publishing experiment that will hopefully serve as a bridge between two peoples who once shared the same land. Our idea was to create a magazine that history had conspired to banish from the realm of the possible: Tablet Warsaw, a magazine with a global audience published from the former cultural capital of Eastern European Jewry—a scattered and decimated people that has found a vibrant new life in America and Israel.

The effort of removing Tablet's eleven-member editorial and design staff from their offices in New York and bringing them to Warsaw was more than an act of historical piety. It was also an attempt to get American Jewish writers and their readers to move beyond the simplicities of historical narrative and to engage more deeply with the realities of the deeply tragic yet deeply shared history of Jews and Poles on Polish soil, and the ways in which that history continues to shape the present.

A week of reporting and editing Tablet from Warsaw gave the magazine's staff a much deeper understanding of the cultural confluence and historical contingencies that shape Jewish culture and politics in the lands where Polish Jews and their descendants have settled. They also helped American Jews gain a more nuanced understanding of the Polish experience of a community that has largely disappeared from Polish soil, but not from individual and cultural memory. In addition to attending and reporting on the ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, staffers interviewed and profiled contemporary Polish writers and artists,

2 pc i - NY 201 3 | h u m a N i t i e s

and became acquainted with the life of the modern Polish city that was built on the rubble of the city in which over 400,000 Jews were systemically stripped of their rights as citizens, persecuted and starved before being shipped off to German concentration camps.

Tablet staff heard first-hand stories of Poles who turned over their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis for small sums of money or out of nationalist and religious hatred. They also heard stories of Poles who were themselves interned in concentration camps for hiding their Jewish neighbors, motivated by national feeling and religious ideals, or simple humanity. One highlight of the trip for some Tablet staffers was an hour and a half long interview with 91-year-old former Polish Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski, whose active mind and first-hand account of hiding Jews in Warsaw as a young member of Żegota left an enduring sense of the debt that is owed to thousands of righteous Poles by tens of thousands of Polish Jews and their descendants.

Participants were left with a strong sense that while the history of Jews and Poles in Poland was often cruel, and ended with a historical catastrophe of neither people's making, it is above all, a history that is shared.

David Samuels is Tablet Magazine's literary editor. He is also a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

Tablet staff visited Poland from 15 to 20 of April 2013.

www.tabletmag.org

Andrzej StASiukS̓ on The road To babadagAt the europeAn Book cluB

On the Road to Babadag has great humor and a wonderful loopiness. Stasiuk shows what life is like when the stakes are so low the rest of the world regularly overlooks you.

—Jessa Crispin, NPR

In On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe (tr. Michael Kandel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), author Andrzej Stasiuk sets out on a journey from his native Poland to travel through Europe, but instead of visiting the typical tourist cities, he carves his own path through the less-traveled lands of Central and Eastern Europe. On the Road to Babadag recounts Stasiuk’s adventures, revealing the sweep of history in the culturally rich nations of Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine. The book has been published in twenty-two countries and won Poland's highest literary award, the NIKE prize, in 2005.

Andrzej Stasiuk (b. 1960 in Warsaw), often compared to Romantic travelers like Jack Kerouac and Marek Hłasko, is one of Poland’s most popular and internationally successful writers. He was expelled from high school, and in the 1980s he deserted from his army unit—in a tank, according to legend—and spent eighteen months in prison acquiring fodder for his first literary success, The Walls of Hebron, published in Warsaw in 1992. His books in English include The White Raven (tr. Wiesiek Powaga, Serpent’s Tail, 2001), Tales of Galicia (tr. Margarita Nafpaktitis, Twisted Spoon Press, 2003), Nine (tr. Bill Johnston, Harcourt, 2007), Fado (tr. Bill Johnston, Dalkey Archive, 2009), and Dukla (tr. Bill Johnston, Dalkey Archive, 2011). Stasiuk and his wife Monika Sznajderman run the small but influential press, Wydawnictwo Czarne, from a village in the Beskid mountains in the south of Poland.

The European Book Club is a monthly series of book discussions organized by ten European Cultural institutes and consulates based in New York. There are no special membership requirements to participate. The discussion will be moderated by David A. Goldfarb, curator of Literature and Humanities at the Polish Cultural Institute New York and former assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, and author of many articles on Polish and Russian Literature.

Established in 1970, the Mid-Manhattan Library houses the largest circulating collections of The New York Public Library.

The Polish session of the European Book Club is organized by the Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with the World Languages Collection at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of The New York Public Library, within the framework of the European Cultural Institutes in New York (EUNIC).

Sept 10, 2013, 6:00 pm Mid-Manhattan Library (NYPL) Corner Room Gallery 455 Fifth Avenue, New York City Registration at www.europeanbookclub.org

Final Art cmyk 100% black

4 pc i - NY 201 3 | l i t e r a t u r e

found in trAnSlAtionAwArd 2013

The Polish Book Institute in Kraków, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, originators of the Found in Translation Award, are pleased to announce that Antonia Lloyd-Jones, based in London, is the first translator to be named for a second time as winner, not only for the quality of her translations, but also for her extraordinary productivity. The culmination of several years of diligent work brought seven books by Polish authors into print in English in 2012 in a range of genres. Lloyd-Jones previously won for her translation of The Last Supper, by Paweł Huelle (Serpent’s Tail, 2008).

The full list is impressive—

Paweł Huelle, Cold Sea Stories (Comma Press, 2012).Jacek Dehnel, Saturn (Dedalus Press, 2012).Zygmunt Miłoszewski, A Grain of Truth (Bitter Lemon Press, 2012).Artur Domosławski, Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life (Verso Books, 2012). Wojciech Jagielski, The Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Seven Stories Press & Old Street Publishing, 2012). Andrzej Szczeklik, Kore: On Sickness, the Sick and the Search for the Soul of Medicine (Counterpoint Press, 2012).Janusz Korczak, Kaytek the Wizard (Urim Publications/Penlight Press, 2012).

Antonia Lloyd-Jones studied Russian and Greek at Oxford University. While her 2012 output could constitute a career unto itself, she has previously translated several novels of Paweł Huelle and Olga Tokarczuk, stories by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, more non-fiction by Ryszard Kapuściński, Wojciech Jagielski and Wojciech Tochman, additional detective novels by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, poetry by Tadeusz Dąbrowski, and recently children’s books.

It is also important to recognize that it is often the translator who is in the best position to propose new works of international literature to publishers in the English-speaking world, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated numerous excerpts and written a vast number of book descriptions, bringing the work of Polish writers to the attention of American and British editors, so that they may even be considered for publication.

The Found in Translation Award is given annually to the translator of the finest publication of Polish literature in English to have appeared in book form during the preceding calendar year and recognizes the great importance of the original text. The winner receives a monetary award funded by W.A.B. Publishers and a three-month residency in Kraków, funded by the Polish Book Institute.

This year's award will be presented at the London Review Bookshop on the occasion of a reading by Antonia Lloyd-Jones with author Jacek Dehnel.

Found in Translation Award Ceremony Nov 15, 2013 London Review Bookshop 14 Bury Place, London

Cmyk �le colors appliedJuly 31

July 31 Final cmyk colors applied

l i t e r a t u r e | pc i - NY 201 3 5

jAn SAwkA retroSpectiveThe Polish Cultural Institute New York is proud to support a major retrospective, curated by Evonne M. Davis and Hanna Maria Sawka, celebrating the life and work of Jan Sawka (1946-2012). His body of work encompasses painting, book arts, sculpture, engraving, editorial illustration, architectural installation, monuments, new media, and stage design. More than sixty museums around the world hold works by Sawka in their collections, and he has had more than seventy solo exhibitions—most recently, a major memorial presentation at the National Museum in Kraków. The fall show at Newark's Gallery Aferro will focus on his paintings, prints and sculptures that represent his concern for the human condition in the contemporary world.

Jan Sawka was born in Poland right after World War II, and his childhood was overshadowed by his father's Stalin-era political imprisonment. In his early 20s, the artist began designing posters in the tradition of the internationally renowned Polish Poster School—a phenomenon which developed in the late 1950s as an alternative to Socialist Realism, pervasive throughout Eastern Europe. Sawka’s exile from Poland in 1976 was triggered by the anti-totalitarian messages in his art, which often portrayed individuals crushed by the oppressive system. By way of Paris, he arrived in New York in 1977 with his wife, baby, four suitcases and an art portfolio. Within a year, he became a prolific editorial illustrator for The New York Times. He also designed posters and worked on sets for the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater and Harold Clurman Theater; he collaborated closely with Samuel Beckett’s theater company and designed a ten-story stage set for the Grateful Dead.

"He contemplates and dissects the social conditions of our moment—the absurdities of political states, the leadership, the courts, the universities—within the context of the individual caught in the labyrinth… such a condition is not differentiated from the absurdities of more human interaction, between lovers, husbands and wives. The isolation is there too, perhaps even more so: the absence of communication, the uniformity, the blandness, the emptiness… Here too is the softened, approachable world of physical beauty, of delicacy, refinement and sensitivity. These two struggle with one another… in Sawka's irresistible art," writes the late Professor James Beck of Columbia University in Graphis Magazine. This kind of sensitivity made Sawka not only a unique artist, but also a vehement political activist, passionately engaged in the life of his native country even in exile. In 1981, when martial law was imposed in Poland, millions of copies of his Solidarity poster were sold in a bi-partisan fundraiser led by the AFL-CIO; the proceeds provided immediate support to the besieged Polish dissidents.

Presented by Gallery Aferro with support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Sept 12–Dec 14, 2013 Gallery Aferro 73 Market Street Newark, NJ www.aferro.org

6 pc i - NY 201 3 | a r t

Bęc zmiAnA foundAtionAt the new York Art Book fAir

Guerilla art agitators the Bęc Zmiana Foundation (pronounced BENTS ZMYAH-nah, meaning Bang! Change!) are coming to the eighth annual New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, organized by Printed Matter, Inc. The Bęc Zmiana Foundation is one of the leading non-profit cultural organizations in Poland, and their mission is to explore and promote emerging culture. The foundation encourages research and provocation, aids experimental and progressive art projects and installations, and publishes books and journals about the arts and design, as well as social, economic, and cultural theory. One of the most recognized Bęc Zmiana journals is Notes.na.6.tygodni (Notes.for.6.weeks, est. 2003), devoted to current events in Poland and the cutting edge of culture featuring interviews with remarkable international artists and curators such as Susan Philipsz, Slavs and Tatars, Elias Redstone and Bas van Beek. Notes.for.6.weeks counts some of Poland’s most recognized and accomplished curators and creators among its contributors, including Grzegorz Piątek, Sebastian Cichocki, and Michał Libera, and is designed by Grzegorz Laszuk, who garnered the European Design Award for Notes in 2008 and 2010. Bęc Zmiana also publishes the experimental humanities periodical, Format P, which regularly changes its profile, editorial team, range of distribution, and even its motivating focus. So far five editions have been published. The last issue, Format P#5: Spoken Exhibitions, was distributed in five languages and premiered in six Europeans capitals: Brussels, Berlin, London, Madrid, Moscow, and Kyiv.

Free and open to the public, the New York Art Book Fair is the world's premiere event for artists' books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines. Last year, the fair was attended by more

8 pc i - NY 201 3 | a r t

than 25,000 people and featured 283 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from twenty-six countries, but only one Polish publisher, The Worst Magazine Ever, was present.

Printed Matter, Inc. is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. Recognized for years as an essential voice in increasingly diversified art world conversations and debates, Printed Matter is dedicated to the examination and interrogation of the changing role of artists’ publications in the landscape of contemporary art.

Bęc Zmiana Foundation’s participation at the New York Art Book Fair is presented by Printed Matter, MoMA PS1 and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Sept 19–22, 2013 MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City, NY www.nyartbookfair.com

tAdeuSz dąBrowSki: black squarereAding tour And omi reSidencYIn between the ebb of thoughts and the flowof sleep I have a minute of eternity for gatheringmetaphors.

But before I can bend to pick up the firstone, a wave washes over me and the turbulent deep engulfs me. Some

time later I wake up, because the sunis sticking its fingers in my eyes. I don’t remember much.

In my right pocket I’ve a pebble, in my left a jellyfish,in my mouth—sand.

—Tadeusz Dąbrowski, from Black Square (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Zephyr Press, 2011)

The poetry of Tadeusz Dąbrowski (b. 1979) is a study in contrasts between religion and eros, formal humor and dead seriousness, always struggling with uncertainty. Nominated for the NIKE prize in 2010, translated into approximately twenty languages, Dąbrowski is one of the most celebrated Polish poets of his generation. He will be in the US for a four-week residency at Writers OMI at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, following a healthy stream of Polish writers-in-residence—among them Olga Tokarczuk, Agata Tuszyńska, Dorota Masłowska, and Jacek Dehnel.

Before the start of his residency at Writers OMI, Zephyr Press in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute New York organized a reading tour in the Northeastern United States. Dąbrowski will appear at some of the best poetry venues in Dublin, New Hampshire; Grolier Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC; in Philadelphia; and at the Cornelia Street Café in New York.

Sept 29–Nov 5, 2013 Visit www.polishculture-nyc.org for updates on author's public appearances.

10 pc i - NY 201 3 | l i t e r a t u r e

 

jAnuSz pruSinowSki trioWhat struck me right away about this music was its amazing ability to mix the feel and power of village dance music with the personal contemporary sensibilities of the players. (…) The addition of wind and brass to the Trio's sound really pushes their music into another realm.

—Michal Shapiro, Huffington Post on WOMEX performance

The Janusz Prusinowski Trio is a group of musicians who follow in the traditions of village masters they have personally learned from, but they are also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance, and the archaic with the modern. The Trio's unique style is distilled from their informed reinterpretations of central Poland's village music. They bring the mazurka—sung, played, danced, and improvised—to a new, youthful audience. Listening to the Trio you can hear how traditional music of Polish villages echoes or is echoed by a variety of genres: the music of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, a shared love of improvisation with blues and jazz, a tonal sophistication reminiscent of twentieth-century classical and free improvisation, and the energy and propulsion of rock music.

The band has performed in most European countries, Asia, Canada, and the USA (including Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Symphony Center). The Trio shared the stage with such renowned artists as Janusz Olejniczak, Tomasz Stańko, and Alim Qasimov. They have released two critically-acclaimed albums: Mazurkas (2008) and Heart (2010). In October of 2012, the Prusinowski Trio was officially selected to perform as part of main showcase of the prestigious world music fair WOMEX 2012 (World Music Expo) in Thessaloniki.

The Prusinowski Trio will perform in following lineup: Janusz Prusinowski, fiddle, voice, dulcimer, Polish accordion; Piotr Piszczatowski, baraban drum, frame drum; Michał Żak, wooden flutes, shawm, clarinet; Piotr Zgorzelski, folk bass, dancing; Szczepan Pospieszalski, trumpet.

Presented by World Music Festival in Chicago, Center for World Music, Legion Arts, Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, Music at Lily Pads, DROM, Yoshi’s San Francisco, School of Music and Dance San Diego, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, University of California in Los Angeles, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, Dancing Unlimited, Folk Dance Center San Diego, Richmond Folk Music Festival, the Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Consulate Generalof the Republic of Polandin Los Angeles

12 pc i - NY 201 3 | m u s i c

US TOUR

Sept 22–Oct 16, 2013 www.januszprusinowskitrio.pl

Sept 22, 201315th Annual World Music Festival Chicago, IL www.worldmusicfestivalchicago.org

Sept 25, 2013Landfall Festival of World MusicLegion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IAwww.legionarts.org

Sept 27–28, 201320th Annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, Bloomington, INwww.lotusfest.org

Sept 29, 2013, 3:00 pmMusic at Lily Pads, Peace Dale, RI www.musicatlilypads.org

Oct 4, 2013, 7:15 pm DROM, New York Citywww.dromnyc.com

Oct 5, 2013Intimate House Concert in the hills of San Diego; for details email craigshyman@gmail.com

Oct 6, 2013, 7:00 pm Yoshi’s San Francisco, CAwww.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco

Oct 7, 2013 School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA www.music.sdsu.eduwww.centerforworldmusic.org

Oct 9, 2013Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CAwww.swccd.eduwww.centerforworldmusic.org

Oct 10, 2013European Jazz @ UCLAwww.music.ucla.edu

Oct 11, 2013, 6:30 pm Folk Dance Center, Dancing Unlimited, San Diego, CAwww.folkdancecenter.orgwww.centerforworldmusic.org

Oct 12-13, 2013 Richmond Folk Festival, Richmond, VAwww.richmondfolkfestival.org

Oct 16, 2013The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DCwww.kennedy-center.org

Performance schedule subject to change.

mArek tomASz pAwłowSki: The runaWayAmong the many documentaries about World War II, Marek Pawłowski's The Runaway stands out by addressing a largely unknown subject: Polish-Ukrainian camaraderie forged by resistance to the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

"I've been on the run all my life: During WWII from the Germans, a few times from death in Auschwitz, after the war from the Reds…," says Kazimierz Piechowski, the principal protagonist of The Runaway.

On June 20, 1942, Piechowski and three fellow prisoners managed to escape from Auschwitz in the Nazi commander's personal automobile. The mastermind behind the carefully orchestrated plan was a Ukrainian prisoner and mechanic, Yevhen (Gienek) Bendera, whom Piechowski had befriended.

The Runaway is a true story of friendship between two prisoners, a Pole and a Ukrainian, whose solidarity, perseverance, and will to survive help them to overcome the Nazi killing machine and, by their daring escape, to set an example that inspired thousands of prisoners who stayed behind. The film is riveting in its detailed account of the planning and execution of their getaway. Masterfully combining an eyewitness narrative by Kazimierz Piechowski with rich documentary evidence, including never before seen photographs of Auschwitz, director Marek Pawłowski brings to life a real story full of suspense and drama.

The film confronts the most traumatic events in the life of Kazimierz Piechowski: imprisonment at Auschwitz, the escape, and the subsequent service in the Polish Home Army that earned him a ten-year sentence in a Communist jail after the war. Gienek Bendera, separated from his son who stayed behind in Soviet Ukraine after the war, died alone in Warsaw in the 1980s.

14 pc i - NY 201 3 | F i l m

The Runaway won the Bronze Medal at the New York Film Festival's World's Best Television & Films competition in 2008, the People’s Choice Award at the Cracow Film Festival in 2007, and the Best Director Award at the Moscow Zolotoy Vityaz in 2008.

Marek Tomasz Pawłowski is a director, screenwriter, and producer. A graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, he collaborates with Polish National Television (including feature documentaries and plays for Teatr Telewizji, Poland’s longest-running TV theater series) and with German television. Among his best known documentaries are Forbidden Love: The Story of Bronia and Gerhard (2002), Uciekinier/The Runaway (2007) and Cyrk ze złamanym sercem/The Heartbroken Circus (2009).

Presented by the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York.

The Runawaydir. Marek Tomasz PawłowskiPoland, 2007

Sept 27, 2013, 7:00 pm Introduction by Prof. Alexander Motyl (Rutgers University) Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street New York City www.ukrainianinstitute.org

performA 13: the poliSh pAvilionwithout wAllS And AkAdemiA ruchu

Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg (see interview, p. 18), Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to new live performance, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation, and collaboration. The Performa 13 biennial, which will take place in New York City from November 1-24, 2013, will debut its Pavilions Without Walls™, including multiple collaborative projects between Performa and Polish cultural institutions.

The central focus of Performa 13 is "citizenship"—a vital topic for many contemporary Polish artists. The Pavilions Without Walls present works that underline the major role artists play in stimulating social change and championing social justice. The Polish Pavilion Without Walls will feature a performance series by Akademia Ruchu, a Performa commission by Paweł Althamer, a program on the legacy of Tadeusz Kantor in partnership with Cricoteka from Kraków, new projects by Agnieszka Kurant as part of her SculptureCenter exhibition, Katarzyna Krakowiak with the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Radek Szlaga with Konrad Smoleński.

Akademia Ruchu at Performa 13Operating at the juncture of theater, performance, film and fine arts, Akademia Ruchu (Ah-kah-DEHM-yah ROO-khu, meaning The Academy of Movement), has been the sounding board of Poland’s political life since its establishment in 1973 in Warsaw. Founded by Wojciech Krukowski, the collective's artistic director, and consisting of artists Janusz Bałdyga, Jolanta Krukowska, Cezary Marczak, Jan Pieniążek, Zbigniew Olkiewicz, Jarosław Żwirblis, and Krzysztof Żwirblis, for almost forty years Akademia Ruchu have engaged in insightful reflection on communist and post-communist Poland.

Akademia Ruchu represents Poland's first creative practice aside from folk culture that exists outside of institutional frameworks in non-artistic spaces—in the streets, private homes and industrial locations. From its very beginning, Akademia Ruchu has been known as the "theater of behavior" and has presented hundreds of happenings, anonymous interventions in the public realm, theater performances, and political actions, in which the spectators become a part of the work. Unlike in today's highly documented performances, Akademia Ruchu's first audiences were random passers-by, public transportation passengers, or tenants of neighboring houses. The actions were quiet, innovative protests and social expressions that served to strengthen community ties. Akademia Ruchu invented a form of a multimedia art that had not existed in Poland previously, at the same time, inaugurating a new tradition in the contemporary Polish theater, both conceptual and socially grounded.

The Polish Pavilion at the Performa 13 biennial is made possible by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Times Square Alliance and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Nov 1–24, 2013 Various Locations New York City www.performa-arts.org

16 pc i - NY 201 3 | a r t

performA 13: A converSAtion withroSelee goldBerg

Knowing nothing about performance art, why come to Performa?At Performa, you will be instantly immersed in the most exciting ideas in contemporary art and culture from around the world. You will learn about the history of artists' performance; discover that artists have always created "live art"—even Leonardo da Vinci—and how critical performance has been to the history of twentieth-century art; and realize that there are some things you already know, such as the "Happenings" of the 1960s, and how this material connects to a long history of such work before and since. And you will have a wonderful time! You will meet people whose interests straddle many disciplines, and can have extended conversations at designated "hot spots." You will see New York in entirely new ways, at more than forty venues across the city.

Why did you start the Performa biennial?I wanted to explain that performance is central to our understanding of the history and sociology of art. Also in 2004, the art world was too market driven, too top heavy. I wanted to take back New York for the creative community, to reignite something of the adventurousness and sheer audacity of the art world that brought me to New York in the 1970s. I wanted to build a community of artists, writers, architects, film makers, philosophers, choreographers, poets, and composers, to provide places to meet and reflect, and to find ways to support and commission new art and emerging artists.

The national pavilions are making their debut. What does including Polish performance art mean to you?We have worked in the past with several exciting Polish artists (Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska, for example) whose insights and reflections on the country that shaped their art have been deeply informative. Rather than work with one or two artists out of context, I wanted to investigate national histories in greater breadth and complexity. Hence the idea of the Pavilions Without Walls, a program that allows for a more extensive engagement with the individuals who make up a country's cultural matrix—curators, artists, writers, architects, film makers writers and academics, as well as their US institutional representatives. Poland has an extraordinary history of performance that straddles both art and theater, and the politics of the past half century. It is a revolutionary history, a profoundly disturbing history, a vital cultural history that continues to thrive as contemporary artists investigate all of these threads, as they determine what it means to be a "citizen" of one country, while existing in our shared global cultural and political context. Our partners in New York and in Poland (the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw) have given us a concentrated and very rich education. They have supported several research trips to Warsaw and Kraków and arranged meetings, roundtables, and much more. It has been an incredibly exciting process and it is ongoing.

18 pc i - NY 201 3 | a r t

The origins and impacT of World War i:An interdiSciplinArY conference2014 marks the centennial of the outbreak of the World War I. Poland did not exist as a political entity in 1914, but tens of thousands of Poles fought as citizens of the German, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Russians, both Tsarists and Bolsheviks, and Germans were trying to win the hearts and minds of the Polish population living under their rule, while Józef Piłsudski and other Polish leaders saw the war as a means to an independent state. In this manifestation of violence on a scale unprecedented in Europe, Poles suffered over one million civilian and military casualties, out of a total of approximately 20 million deaths on both sides.

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is proud to participate in the organization of a conference at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on "The Origins and Impact of World War I." With panels on the experience and aftermath of violence in the war, the participants will devote particular attention to the Eastern Front, where much of the violence took place. There will be additional discussions of the origins of the war more generally, and the legacy of the war in international law.

The keynote speaker will be Prof. Dominic Lieven (Cambridge University), author of many books on Russian history, including Russia and the Origins of the First World War (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983) and Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 (Viking, 2009).

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is bringing two guest scholars from Poland. Dr. Jan Szkudliński, who completed his Ph.D. in 2012 in history at the University of Gdańsk on German maneuvers in the Vistula Curve in 1914 and currently works as Chief Specialist at the Museum of World War II in Gdańsk. Prof. Kazimierz Lankosz is Chair of International Public Law at the Jagiellonian University and Professor at the University of Economics in Kraków and has been named Doctor Honoris Causa at Gutenberg University in Mainz. He serves as Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Center at the Jagiellonian University and as a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague.

Oct 17–18, 2013 Harriman Institute, Columbia University 420 West 118th Street 1501 International Affairs Building New York City www.harriman.columbia.edu

Final cmyk black 100%

new York eArlY muSic celeBrAtion 2013pro muSicA polonicA

20 pc i - NY 201 3 | h u m a N i t i e s

Early Music Foundation (EMF) and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present the New York Early Music Celebration (NYEMC) "Pro Musica Polonica," taking place city-wide October 4–20, 2013. An EMF Service-to-the-Field project, the Celebration showcases New York's historically-informed-performance artists, ensembles and presenters. Open to the entire New York historical performance community, Celebration 2013 will feature Polish early music artists as guest performers. The festival will span more than twenty events, presented by the Morgan Library & Museum, Music Before 1800, Carnegie Hall, Church of the Epiphany, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and others.

Early Music Celebration will include performances of medieval repertoire by Amy Bartram and Ensemble Peregrina*. The Renaissance period will be represented with performances by Galileo's Daughters, Polyhymnia (both groups will feature Polish repertoire ), and the Renaissance Street Singers. 17th-century Baroque works will fill the programs by Phoenixtail (with Polish repertoire), Le Poème Harmonique, and Carolyn Sampson. Arte dei Suonatori*, Brooklyn Baroque, Il Giardino d'Amore*, as well as the Bach-centric Holy Trinity Lutheran "Bach Vespers," and "Bach at One" by Trinity Wall Street will feature Baroque music of the 18th Century. The classical period will be represented by Early Music New York—Frederick Renz, Director (featuring Polish orchestra repertoire). The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center will present a seminar and master class entitled "Bach & the Polish Style," with Raymond Erickson and Szymon Paczkowski*. A performance by the Janusz Prusinowski Trio* (see p. 12) will complement the Celebration activities. Early Music Foundation (EMF), named "a revered institution" by The New York Times, was founded by Frederick Renz and other members of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua, and has been in-Residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine since its inception in 1974. EMF's mission is to foster public understanding and appreciation of western culture through historically-informed performances of music and music drama from the 11th through 18th Centuries. EMF consists of the primary performing enterprise, Early Music New York, led by Frederick Renz, and a recording label, Ex cathedra Records.

*Polish guest artists

Oct 4–20, 2013 More information and updates: www.nyemc.org www.polishculture-nyc.org

new York eArlY muSic celeBrAtion 2013pro muSicA polonicA

m u s i c | pc i - NY 201 3 21

West HarlemDevelopmentCorporation

new York eArlY muSic celeBrAtion 2013pro muSicA polonicA

22 pc i - NY 201 3 | m u s i c

Oct 4, 2013, 7:15 pm Prusinowski Trio* Wild Music from the Heart of Poland Presented by DROMwww.dromnyc.com

Oct 4, 8:00 pm Brooklyn BaroqueJohann Ludwig Krebs @ 300The Church of St. Luke in the Fieldswww.rebeccapechefsky.com/brooklynbaroque Oct 5, 7:30 pm PhoenixtailMusic of the Polish Court: 17th Century Works Christ Chapel of The Riverside Churchwww.phoenixtail.com Oct 6, 2:00 pm Renaissance Street Singers Outdoor Location TBD www.streetsingers.org

Oct 6, 4:00 pm Ensemble Peregrina*Polish Medieval Music Presented by Music Before 1800Corpus Christi Churchwww.mb1800.org

Oct 8, 9:30 am–4:00 pm Raymond Erickson & Szymon Paczkowski* Seminar/Master Class "Bach and the Polish Style"Presented by CUNY Graduate Center www.gc.cuny.edu

Oct 8, 12:30 pm Amy Bartram Songs of Gace BruléPresented by the Church of the Transfigurationwww.amybartram.com

Oct 8, 7:30 pmArte dei Suonatori*Telemann's Polish MusicPresented by the Morgan Library & Museumwww.themorgan.org

Oct 10, 1:15 pm "Midtown Concerts" Presented by Gotham Early Music Scene The Chapel at St. Bartholomew's Churchwww.gemsny.org

Oct 10, 7:30 pm Carolyn SampsonAll-Purcell Program Presented by Carnegie HallWeill Recital Hall www.carnegiehall.org

Oct 12, 7:30 pmEarly Music New York—Frederick Renz, DirectorPOLONAISE! The Golden AgeThe Cathedral of St. John the Divinewww.earlymusicny.org

Oct 12, 8:00 pmPolyhymnia Music from Renaissance PolandPre-Concert Lecture @ 7:00 pm The Church of St. Ignatius of Antiochwww.polyhymnia-nyc.org

*Polish guest artistsParticipants as of July 1, 2013 Artists and performance schedule subject to change.

new York eArlY muSic celeBrAtion 2013pro muSicA polonicA

The 4th triennial service project of the Early Music Foundation, Inc., presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Participation of Arte dei Suonatori and Ensemble Peregrina is made possible through a generous grant from the Wielkopolska Region. Grant support generously provided by the West Harlem Local Development Corp. of the Tides Foundation with awards administered by the Early Music Foundation to Early Music New York, Galileo’s Daughters, Music Before 1800 (presenter), Phoenixtail, and Rebel Baroque. Participation of Narol Baroque and Camerata Silesia is made possible through a generous grant from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Oct 13, 3:00 pm Il Giardino d'Amore* Polonia nell'Europa Antica. Songs of Love: Sacred and SecularPresented by the Church of the Epiphany www.epiphanychurchnyc.org

Oct 13 Magdalena BaczewskaKeyboard Music of the Polish Renaissance & Baroque Presented by the Kosciuszko Foundationwww.thekf.org

Oct 14, 1:00 pm "Bach at One" Trinity Wall Street St. Paul's Chapelwww.trinitywallstreet.org/music/bach

Oct 14, 7:30 pmRebelRediscoveries: Rare Concerti & Sonatas by Bach's ContemporariesBroadway Presbyterian Church www.rebelbaroque.com

Oct 17, 1:15 pm"Midtown Concerts"Presented by Gotham Early Music Scene The Chapel at St. Bartholomew's Churchwww.gemsny.org

Oct 18, 8:00 pm Galileo's DaughtersMusic from Copernicus' TimeChurch of Notre Damewww.galileosdaughters.com

Oct 19, 8:00 pmLe Poème Harmonique Combattimenti: Monteverdi & MarazzoliPresented by Miller Theatre at Columbia University www.millertheatre.com

Oct 20, 2:00 pmRenaissance Street Singers Outdoor Location TBD www.streetsingers.org

Oct 20, 5:00 pm Bach VespersHoly Trinity Lutheran Church www.bachvespersnyc.org

An evening with krzYSztof pendereckiPoland’s greatest living composer. —The Guardian

The Polish Cultural Institute New York together with Symphony Space and radio WQXR-Q2 joins the world celebration of Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th birthday.

Krzysztof Penderecki will appear in person at Symphony Space for a live broadcast hosted by WQXR-Q2's Helga Davis, with performances by the Penderecki String Quartet, Ensemble Pi, Matthew Lipman, Jay Campbell, and by musicians from the Yale School of Music.

Penderecki's music is stunningly original and refreshingly accessible. Celebrated for his large-scale compositions, his chamber works reflect changes in his style of writing. Capriccio for Siegfried Palm (1968) written for the German avant-garde cellist, includes unusual notation, free rhythm without a metric framework, and numerous extended techniques that create a spectacle of sound and activity. Cadenza for solo viola (1984), unites his early avantgardism with the romantic gestures of his second period. Sextet (2000) for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano explores many textures and instrumental combinations within the ensemble, while providing virtuosic opportunities for each instrument. Quartet No. 3 (2008) is infused with the rich tonal palette that has made Penderecki one of the world's most innovative and exceptional composers. The work is in part an autobiographical work, containing motifs pertaining to the composer's childhood, including a Hutsul folk melody.

Other US events honoring the composer include New York Philharmonic performances directed by Charles Dutoit of Concerto Grosso No. 1 for three cellos and orchestra in October.

24 pc i - NY 201 3 | m u s i c

On December 14, Anne-Sophie Mutter will present a Penderecki world premiere at Carnegie Hall, and the Yale School of Music will present the Symphony No. 2 and Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima on November 1, with the composer conducting. The Warsaw Penderecki Festival will take place from November 17-23, with ten concerts and more than thirty-five compositions including Symphony No. 4 performed by Sinfonia Varsovia led by Lorin Maazel, all quartets performed by the Shanghai Quartet, and Credo conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Q2 Music is WQXR's online music station dedicated to contemporary classical composers, innovative ensembles, and vibrant, live webcasts from New York City's leading new-music venues. Q2 Music, a live 24/7 music stream available at www.wqxr.org/q2music and a free WQXR app, includes immersive festivals, insightful commentary from hosts and composers, full-length album streams, interviews with trend-setting artists, and events at The Greene Space at WQXR.

Presented by Symphony Space in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and WQXR-Q2. With support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Oct 25, 2013, 7:30 pm Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York City

MUSIC

AgnieSzkA kurAnt At the Sculpturecenter

Agnieszka Kurant's exhibition at the SculptureCenter continues the artist's investigation of the idea of non-knowledge and "unknown unknowns," as defined by the South African art historian, theorist, and curator Sarat Maharaj. He once said: "The artist has an unknowability, the ability to unknow"—meaning that the visual arts can create "non-knowledge" that can produce new forms of understanding and thinking, resulting in new systems of perception. In relation to these "unknowns," Agnieszka Kurant’s new sculpture series, Phantom Estate (Artworks without Authors), is based on unfinished, barely mentioned, and rumored works of deceased conceptual artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Guy de Cointet, Edward Krasiński and Gino de Dominicis.

Kurant's practice quite often relates to the "economy of the invisible," and for the SculptureCenter, the artist is producing several new works that explore the process of editing as an aesthetic and a political act. The centerpiece of the show, Cutaways, is a film produced in collaboration with renowned film editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now). The work, based on surplus content and labor, encompasses footage of characters edited out from various films, combined with newly shot material, creating a new narrative of a meeting of these phantom characters.

The show will be accompanied by a pamphlet with a text by Diedrich Diederichsen—Germany's most renowned critic of contemporary culture.

Agnieszka Kurant was born in 1978 in Łódź, Poland where she studied art history at the University of Łódź and photography at the notable Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre, continuing her education in creative curating at the Goldsmith College in London. She represented Poland at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale in collaboration with the architect Aleksandra Wasiłkowska. Her works have been shown at the 2011 Venice Biennale and Performa 09 in New York, and exhibited at Witte de With, Rotterdam; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Zachęta National Gallery of Art; and Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists. The exhibition of Agnieszka Kurant continues the collaboration between the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the SculptureCenter which started in 2003 with the exhibition curated by Aneta Szyłak, Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland, and continued in 2007 Christian Tomaszewski’s first major solo exhibition in New York, On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery.

Presented by SculptureCenter and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Nov 10, 2013–Jan 27, 2014 SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves Street Long Island City, NY www.sculpture-center.org

26 pc i - NY 201 3 | a r t

new literAture from europe 2013: in trAnSit

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the New Literature from Europe festival, organized annually by a group of European National Cultural Institutes in New York. This year's festival takes a broad look at trans-European writing, considering authors who write about cultures other than their own or about themes of migration, displacement, and drifting borders, or who are multilingual. As borders have grown more fluid with the evolution of the European Union, writers may find that they are represented by an agent or publisher in a country other than their own, or their work is translated from a third language. These commercial developments in publishing have cultural implications. Is there a "European" literature that is replacing national literatures?

Poland will be represented this year by Witold Szabłowski, author of The Assassin from Apricot City (Stork Press, November 2013), and, with Izabela Meyza, Nasz Mały PRL (Our Little Polish People’s Republic, Znak 2012). The Assassin from Apricot City collects Szabłowski's reportage from Turkey, which earned him the Melchior Wańkowicz award in 2008, for a story about Turkish honor killings. He also received the the EU Parliament Journalism Award in 2010 for his writing on illegal immigration in the European Union. Other writers confirmed thus far include Sabine Gruber (Austria), Jáchym Topol (Czech Republic), Laurent Binet (France), Ilija Trojanow (Germany), György Dragomán (Hungary), and Erri de Luca (Italy).

New Literature from Europe is organized by the Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with the New York branches of the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Czech Center, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Goethe-Institut, the Balassi Institute, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Instituto Cervantes, the European Cultural Institutes in New York (EUNIC), Words Without Borders, The Brooklyn Rail, the Center for Fiction, and The New York Public Library.

Nov 14, 2013 Readings and Discussion at the Center for Fiction 17 East 47th Street New York City RSVP required Nov 15, 2013 Special author event–TBA Nov 16, 2013 Readings and Discussion at the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwartzman Building South Court Auditorium Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street New York City Additional events and locations TBA www.newliteurope.com

28 pc i - NY 201 3 | l i t e r a t u r e

Final Art cmyk 100% black

Final cmyk

N E W Y O R K

Final cmyk black 100%

different AgeS, different voiceS:poliSh women in film

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is collaborating with the Polish Film Institute and the Intercity Association on a November series featuring the newest Polish films by and about women, including work by directors Kasia Rosłaniec, Małgośka Szumowska, and Kasia Klimkiewicz. The showcase will also include documentaries by such prominent directors as Krzysztof Kieślowski and Marcel Łoziński.

Recently, the US film and television industry weekly, Variety, looked at the Polish Film Institute's role in advancing cultural dialog through film and in promoting young progressive filmmakers.

Polish Film Institute Opens Industry To New FilmmakersAbridged article by Leo Barraclough, originally published on May 16, 2013. Courtesy of Variety.

Thanks to the Polish Film Institute (launched 2005) and its national production fund totaling $28 million a year, and a network of 11 regional funds, the number of Polish film productions has grown to more than 40 a year. The Polish Film Institute’s funding has also led to a democratization of filmmaking, with more pics being helmed and produced by young and femme filmmakers.

Two recent Polish films are seen by critics as emblematic of the new generation of filmmakers: Małgośka Szumowska's In the Name of…, which won Berlin's Teddy Award for a film with a gay theme, and Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues, which nabbed the Crystal Bear for top pic in the youth section. Produced by Agnieszka Kurzydło and directed by young women, the films approached contemporary social issues, were rid of the usual tropes and moved away from the classical and historical feel. In the Name of…, centered on a gay priest, and Baby Blues on a teen mom, but neither was portrayed as tragic nor heroic; they were just ordinary people in difficult circumstances. The top Polish film at the box office last year was Leszek Dawid's You Are God, which looks at three friends who form a hip-hop group in the late 1990s. Robert Baliński, international co-productions project manager at the Polish Film Institute, says this film was marked by an interest in the day-to-day concerns of today’s urban youth.

The same vérité approach is evident in this year’s hits: Wojtek Smarzowski's widely discussed Traffic Police, a gritty drama about corrupt cops, or The Closed Circuit, centering on three businessman who are framed by crooked government officials and based on a true story.

The more nuanced, personal approach in Polish filmmaking will be seen in upcoming pics, like in Jan Komasa's highly anticipated City 44, which is set during the Warsaw Uprising, but focuses on a love triangle between young partisans. Komasa has a cult reputation as a controversial tyro helmer following his 2011 Berlin player Suicide Room.

Yet even though the Polish national cinema has been rejuvenated, there are those who feel that films have not gone far enough. Dariusz Jabłoński, prexy of Apple Film Production and one of the producers of Aftermath, claims that the lack of Polish winners at major festivals stems from the fact that Polish filmmakers "are not yet brave enough to make films with inspiring new visions, and be uncompromising in terms of their treatment of subjects, and initiating public discussion. They are far too polite."

Nov 2013 For details on the upcoming festival, visit www.polishculture-nyc.org

30 pc i - NY 201 3 | F i l m

witold lutoSłAwSki: A centenniAl triBute

The Polish Cultural Institute New York and Symphony Space present: Witold Lutosławski: A Centennial Tribute, featuring ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Lutosławski scholar Steven Stucky, author of the critical biography Lutosławski and His Music, and recipient of the Lutosławski Society medal and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Deems Taylor Award.

Witold Lutosławski (1913-94), one of the greatest musical minds of his era, elevated contemporary Polish concert music to world's highest standards. For more than sixty years, his unique compositions have been entrancing listeners in all major concert halls throughout the world, exploring new kinds of beauty and revealing previously unknown possibilities of understanding and experience of the modern world. The Polish Parliament adopted a resolution declaring 2013 the "Year of Witold Lutosławski," in recognition of special importance of his work for national and world heritage: "On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the composer Witold Lutosławski, the Polish Parliament is paying homage to one of the greatest artists of our time, who made a lasting and important contribution to Polish and international music of the Twentieth Century."

Steven Stucky is widely recognized as a leading American contemporary composer. He was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra and has received commissions from many major American orchestras and ensembles. Mr. Stucky has taught at Cornell University since 1980, where he serves as Given Foundation Professor of Composition. For more than 20 years he has been associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he currently is Consulting Composer for New Music.

Led by artistic director and cellist Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) is dedicated to the outstanding performance of masterworks from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. The ensemble presents cutting-edge literature by living composers alongside contemporary "classics." ACME's dedication to new music extends across genres and has earned the group a reputation among both classical and rock crowds. Time Out New York calls the group "one of New York’s brightest new music indie-bands." The New York Times describes ACME’s performances as "vital," "brilliant," and "electrifying." ACME will perform in following lineup: Caroline Shaw & Ben Russell, violins; Nadia Sirota, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello.

Presented by Symphony Space in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

PROGRAMWitold Lutosławski:Sacher Variation for solo cello; Bukoliki for viola and cello; String Quartet.

Steven Stucky:Dialoghi for solo cello; Nell'ombra, nella luce for string quartet.

Friday, Dec 13, 2013, 7:30 pm Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York City www.symphonyspace.org

32 pc i - NY 201 3 | m u s i c

I have a strong desire to communicate something, through my music, to the people. I am not working to get many "fans" for myself; I do not want to convince, I want to find. I would like to find people

who in the depths of their souls feel the same way as I do. […] I regard creative activity as a kind of soul-fishing, and the "catch" is

the best medicine for loneliness, that most human of sufferings.

—Witold Lutosławski

reSidencieSSince 2005 the Polish Cultural Institute New York has been facilitating artistic residency exchange program, bringing Polish visual and performing artists and writers to the US and their American counterparts to Poland. This season's Polish artists-in-residence include: Janusz Orlik and Magdalena Ptasznik at Dance/USA Philadelphia and Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYSept–Oct 2013An exchange program for young choreographers, launched in 2012, continues with artists-in-residence Magdalena Ptasznik and Janusz Orlik, hosted by Dance/USA Philadelphia in partnership with the FringeArts Festival, Mascher Space Cooperative and Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn, NY). Dance Artist Exchange 2013 recognizes that the art of choreography is a complex process of developing a unique artistic language through experiments in dance, intellectual dialogue, (self)reflection, exchange of experience with fellow choreographers and artists from other disciplines. At Chez Bushwick each choreographer will create their own piece in addition to taking and teaching classes in the local dance community, sharing their work and research with Chez Bushwick members and supporters, and building new concepts based on resources unique to New York.

Janusz Orlik graduated from ballet school in Warsaw and is a student of the Brucknerkonserv--atorium Linz in Austria. His most famous works include "Live on stage" (2008), "The Rite of Spring" (2011), and "Insight" (2013). He received a 2011 scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Magdalena Ptasznik is a performer, choreographer, graduate of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, with a degree in Sociology from Warsaw University. She is the recipient of danceWEB scholarship 2011 (ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna). Ptasznik is the author mainly of solo works, such as "surface.territory" and "exercises for a Hero," presented in Holland, Germany, Romania, Portugal and Poland.

The Exchange is made possible by The Polish Cultural Institute New York, Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk (Poznań), Stary Browar (Poznań), the Institute of Music and Dance (Warsaw), Dance/USA Philadelphia (USA), Mertz Gilmore Foundation and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

34 pc i - NY 201 3 | D a N c e & V i s u a l a r t s

Kama Sokolnicka at Art OMI ResidencyJun–Jul 2013Kama Sokolnicka (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist working in collage, photography, installation, drawing, and painting. At Art OMI, Sokolnicka worked on her multi-faceted project Jet-lag (the first part, a sculpture of an unfolded paper airplane, was included in Wrocław's Bazaristan, curated by Aleksandra Wasiłkowska, where works of art interlaced with goods sold at the farmers' market.) The work elaborates on the idea that the term "jet-lag" fully defines the current status of Western civilization after the "jet speed" economy.

Kama Sokolnicka’s residency is made possible by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, with the support of the Polish Cultural Institute New York, in collaboration with OMI International Arts Center.

Jakub Szczęsny at Residency UnlimitedOct– Nov 2013Jakub Szczęsny (b. 1973) is the cofounder of experimental architecture collective Centrala and the creator of Etgar Keret House—a literary residency building, proposed as a Warsaw home for Israeli writer. Built in a narrow gap between two buildings where, in the time of the Nazi occupation, a footbridge once connected the main Warsaw Ghetto with the "Little Ghetto," the 5-foot-wide structure was called by The New York Times as possibly the world's narrowest home.

During his stay at Residency Unlimited, Szczęsny will work on Domesticating New York, a research project which might allow him to construct another building. He will scout avenues and back alleys of the Big Apple for pieces he could buy, lease, borrow, or receive as donations from the locals; the success of this project hinges on their collaboration and generosity.

Jakub Szczęsny’s residency is made possible by Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, in collaboration with AIR CCA Zamek Ujazdowski and Residency Unlimited.

ABout uSThe Polish Cultural Institute New York, established in 2000, is a diplomatic mission to the United States serving under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

The Institute's mission is to build, nurture and promote cultural ties between the United States and Poland by presenting Polish culture to American audiences and by connecting Polish artists and scholars to American institutions, introducing them to their professional counterparts in the United States, and facilitating their participation in contemporary American culture.

Through its extensive contacts in Poland and the United States, the Institute is in an excellent position to facilitate various forms of cultural exchange, including fundraising, residencies for Polish artists in the US and for Americans in Poland, research trips, connecting writers with translators and publishers, organizing panels of artists and scholars, generating press coverage, and developing public outreach.

The Institute has been producing and promoting a broad range of cultural events in theater, music, dance, film, literature, the humanities, and the arts. Among its American partners are such distinguished organizations as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Brooklyn Academy of Music; The Museum of Modern Art; The Jewish Museum; The PEN American Center; The Poetry Society of America; National Gallery of Art; Yale University; Columbia University; Princeton University; Harvard Film Archive; CUNY Graduate Center; Julliard School of Music; The New Museum; La MaMa E.T.C.; and many more. Our programs have included American presentations of works by such luminaries as filmmakers Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski; writers Czesław Miłosz, Adam Zagajewski and Wisława Szymborska; composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski and Mikołaj Górecki; theatre directors Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grotowski, and Tadeusz Kantor; artists Krzysztof Wodiczko, Katarzyna Kozyra, and Alina Szapocznikow; and many other important writers, historians, scholars, musicians, performers, and creators of culture.

STAFFJerzy Onuch, DirectorBartek Remisko, Deputy DirectorIwona Kaczmarek, Chief Administrative Officer Martyna S. Sowa, Assistant to the DirectorDavid A. Goldfarb, Literature and HumanitiesAnna Perzanowska, MusicPaulina Bebecka, Visual ArtsMarzena Dawidziuk, Film and Performing ArtsKamila Sławińska, Communications

ADDRESSPolish Cultural Institute New York350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621New York, NY 10118tel: 212.239.7300 fax: 212.239.7577nyc.office@instytutpolski.org www.polishculture-nyc.org

Polish Cultural Institute New York

@PLInst_NewYork

Cover: Akademia Ruchu, Potknięcie/Stumble, Ciechanów, Świnoujście, Łódź, Warszawa/Warsaw (1975-1977), photo courtesy of Akademia Ruchu.

P. 1: Art by Lesya Khomenko. PP. 2-3: Tablet staff visiting The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, photo ©David A. Goldfarb. P. 4: Book cover courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. P. 5: Antonia Lloyd-Jones and writer Zygmunt Miłoszewski, photo ©David A. Goldfarb. P. 7: Jan Sawka, Illumination #2, 2006, acrylic on Masonite, ©Jan Sawka Estate. PP. 8-9: Spreads from Notes.na.6.tygodni journals; courtesy of Bęc Zmiana Foundation. P. 10: Tadeusz Dąbrowski, photo ©David A. Goldfarb. P. 11: LXMP's Macias and Piotras, photo ©inż. Morecki. PP. 12-13: Janusz Prusinowski Trio, collage artwork by Michał Wiedro. PP. 14-15: A film still from The Runaway by Marek Pawłowski. P. 17: Akademia Ruchu, Europa/Europe, Warszawa/Warsaw (1976), courtesy of Akademia Ruchu. P. 19: RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of Performa 13, photo ©Patrick McMullan. P. 20: Image courtesy of estate of Charles C. Krawczyk, from Remembrance: As Long as We Live (Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2006). PP. 22-23: Il Giardino d'Amore, photo ©Grzegorz Trzpil. PP. 24-25: Krzysztof Penderecki at his home in Lutosławice, photo ©Marek Beblot. P. 27: Works by Agnieszka Kurant, photo ©Wojciech Olech, courtesy of CoCA Toruń. P. 29: Witold Szabłowski, photo ©Albert Zawada/Agencja Gazeta. P. 31: top: a film still from Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec, photo ©Michał Englert; bottom: a film still from In the Name of… by Małgośka Szumowska. P. 33: Witold Lutosławski, photo by Marek Suchecki, ©IAM (Adam Mickiewicz Institute). P. 34: The Rite of Spring, photo by Anna Zielińska, courtesy of Photoholic Studio.

Design: B Dean Skibinski, www.skibinski.co

350 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 4621NEW YORK, NY 10118WWW.POLISHCULTURE-NYC.ORG