Dagmara Domagała and Paweł Janicki (WRO) Artist Talk
On October 19, at 7 PM, Dagmara Domagała and Paweł Janicki from WRO Art Center will held their Artist Talk on the subjects Black on White: An Achromatic History of Art and About Conditional Arts.
Dagmara Domagała has the M.A. degree in Cultural Studies; she is a scholar, art critic, art mediator and art guide. Her primary focus is on researching, elaborating and disseminating analogue and digital collections of the WRO Archive. From 2015 she is a member of the WRO Biennale's programme team. She lectures Media Art at the University at Lower Silesia.
Dagmara will talk on Black on white: An achromatic history of art. The colour as a substance of an artwork. The speaker will take a look at the history of colour in art, and explore the tropes of black, black & white^ and white artistic realisations along with the cultural ambiguity of the sense of colour.
- Do we need colour in art?
- Why did the artists decide to turn down the multicolored palettes?
- What was the suprematist revolution?
- And what does Coco Chanel have to do with all this?
Paweł Janicki will talk on About Conditional Arts (on the occasion of the installation TeToKi!). TeToKi! as a thinking application in the formula of conditional arts. Conditional Arts is a cross-cutting and inclusive term depriving of thinking within the categories of a specific medium, manifesto, or aesthetics, and directing towards conditional relations, simplicity and to the art that is understood as a complex of intersecting various practices.
The lecture is an attempt to look at the practice of media art from an unusual point of view: without getting rid of technological gadgets, while trying to make the most of available digital techniques (and thinking regarding the phenomenon of digital). It also introduces a historical perspective. It shows that many aspects in media culture are a modern representation of processes present in culture for a long time.
The artist talk will take place at IZONE, vul. Naberezhno-Luhova 8.
