Screening of the Film Kisieland + Discussion of the Queer Archives Institute
April 16, Saturday, 3pm
GALPÃO VB | ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL
Av. Imperatriz Leopoldina, 1150
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Event with simultaneous translation – English/Portuguese
Free admission
Rating: 16 years
Karol Radziszewski (Poland) introduces his film Kisieland (30′, 2012), which brings to light hundreds of photographs taken throughout the 1980s by Ryszard Kisiel, the founder and editor of Filo, the first gay zine of communist-era Poland. Shot in the apartment of a friend of Kisiel’s, the photos document a markedly gay-themed artistic event.
After the screening, Radziszewski will participate in a talk with the public about the film and will present his Queer Archives Institute, an artistic project dedicated to collecting archival materials, mostly visual, and recording interviews and audiovisual footage in order to preserve the queer memory from Eastern European and Latin American countries. The work was inaugurated at Galpão VB as part of the Videobrasil Collection in Context #2 exhibition.
The Videobrasil in Context #2 project was bred by the partnership between Videobrasil, the A-I-R Laboratory curatorial artist residency program, run by the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, as part of a program to promote Polish culture in Brazil, organized by Culture.pl in 2016.
About the artist Karol Radziszewski (Bialystok, Poland, 1980)
A multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator, Karol Radziszewski completed a master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 2004. Employing an archive-based methodology, he weaves together multiple cultural, historical, religious, social and gender references. Radziszewski is the editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, a magazine that combines research on queer archives and contemporary art contributions. He is also the founder of the Queer Archives Institute. His work has been shown at the National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, Poland); the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria); the New Museum (New York); the Cobra Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands); the Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum (Poland), and the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (Poland). He has also exhibited at international biennials including the PERFORMA 13 (New York); the 7th Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (Sweden); the 4th Prague Biennale (Czech Republic) and the 15th WRO Media Art Biennale (Wroclaw). Karol Radziszewski lives and works in Warsaw.
http://www.videobrasil.org.br/comunicacao/newsletter/webflyer_karol/karol_kieseland_en.html
