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Exploring Nowa Huta’s Rich History and Urban Rewilding with Breath Library
In 2024, I had the opportunity to work on the first site-specific iteration of Breath Library – project developed in collaboration with Victoria Vesna and the team of UCLA Art|Sci Center. This time around, the series was supported by Utopia House – International Empathy Center, a cultural hub located in Kraków Nowa Huta. This area has…
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Unread book of the day
As usual, a notice: as a non-native English speaker, I’m always concerned about language issues and do my best to write in proper English. Nevertheless, some irregularities may happen. As a new academic year is about to start and we’re also wrapping up some tasks from the previous one (in Poland teaching commence in October,…
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The Milk (and dry riverbeds) of Dreams, part 2.
It is always difficult to pinpoint discoveries and inspirations experienced at a major art event. Just as I’m browsing tons of photographs (even though my camera stopped working at some point during my visit to the biennial), more than three weeks after I came back from Venice, I’m realizing how the whole experience is still very much alive and constantly shifting,…
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The Milk (and dry riverbeds) of Dreams, part 1.
Approaching the airport in Treviso, I already saw the completely melted glaciers in the Alps and had read about severe drought in northern Italy, the worst in 70 years, which emptied out the riverbed of Po. I was also aware of the inevitable irony of the fact that I’m worrying about it sitting on a…
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