17.09.2024 - 19.09.2024, 00:00 - 23:59
27.09.2024, 12:00 - 17:00
28.09.2024, 15:30 - 18:00
We invite you to the inaugural meeting of the Warsaw edition of the Pavilion of Liquid Becomings and a discussion around the Polish edition of the book 'Water Bodies' by Astrida Neimanis.
The Pavilion of Liquid Becomings is a traveling artistic pavilion organized with the support of the European Cultural Foundation as part of the European Pavilion 2024 in the form of a rafting trip on the Vistula, Rhine, Danube, and Tagus rivers. Artists and curators traveling on boats stop along the way to meet with locals, invited guests, and other artists: to talk, sit by the fire, sing, share meals, and exchange stories, views, experiences, and images.
The Warsaw edition of the pavilion is curated by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, and Maria Magdalena Kozłowska. The Pavilion of Liquid Becomings features the following artists: Sophie Thun, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Gosia Kępa, Patryk Zakrocki, Flavia Pinheiro, Carola Uelkhen, Małgosia Markiewicz, Marta Niedbał, Keli Freitas.
Schedule 31.08.2024
15:00 - MSN, ul. Pańska 3 - open meeting with the crew and curators of the Polish edition of the Pavilion of Liquid Becomings.
16:00 - MSN, ul. Pańska 3 - discussion around the book Water Bodies by Astrida Neimanis – guests: Anna Barcz, Ewelina Jarosz, moderated by Zofia Jakubowicz-Prokop.
After the meetings at MSN, we invite you to the Vistula for:
18:00 – joint reading of the book 'Water Bodies' by Astrida Neimanis, on a boat (location: TBC), registration via email: flowliquidbecomings@gmail.com
19:00 - bonfire, performance by Maria Toboła at Saska Beach (location: right bank of the Vistula - 51 degrees 13min N, 21 degrees 03min E, you can cross from the left to the right bank by the 'Słonka' ferry)
The event is co-organized by Flow, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and Pamoja Press.
The Pavilion of Liquid Becomings is a traveling artistic pavilion organized with the support of the European Cultural Foundation as part of the European Pavilion 2024 in the form of a rafting trip on the Vistula, Rhine, Danube, and Tagus rivers.
The Pavilion of Liquid Becomings is immersed in and engaged with water and its interrelations. The project is a story about meeting the river and the people and non-human beings living around it, about a community of time and space, experiences, reflections, and ideas. They become the canvas for creative transformations in art, in the relationship between humans and the natural environment, climate policy, and social responses to art.
Water cannot “(...) continue to function as a resource that we manage and which is the subject of hydropolitics (both current and increasingly restrictive future water directives). (...) Water is a substance and an idea, a material and matter of the planet that cannot be managed in the same way as before. (...) The hydrosphere cannot be controlled and disciplined, as modern engineers and the planetary water regime would like. This is evidenced by violent weather phenomena, water elements, and floods. Water co-creates what Neimanis describes as the terraforming of humans and non-humans. It is anarchistic by nature, but also co-creating and accompanying us.” (excerpt from the introduction by Anna Barcz to the book “Water Bodies” by Astrida Neimanis.)
Artists and curators traveling on boats stop along the way to meet with locals, invited guests, and other artists: to talk, sit by the fire, sing, share meals, and exchange stories, views, experiences, and images.
The pavilion is being created as part of the collaboration between Espaço Agora Now (Amsterdam) and MS Fusion (Vienna), Teatro Meia Volta (Lisbon), United Artist Labor (Belgrade), and Flow (Warsaw).
The project was commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, DGArtes and República Portuguesa, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade, Founding Friends of Espaço Agora Now, National Heritage, Quinta Alegre, Resonance FM.
The route of the Pavilion of Liquid Becomings on the Vistula:
31.08 Warsaw
MSN at Pańska
15:00 - open meeting with the crew and curators of the Pavilion of Liquid Becomings
16:00 - discussion around the book 'Water Bodies' by Astrida Neimanis, guests: Anna Barcz, Ewelina Jarosz, moderated by Zofia Jakubowicz-Prokop.
By the Vistula
18:00 reading of the book 'Water Bodies' by Astrida Neimanis, on a boat, registration via email: flowliquidbecomings@gmail.com
19:00 bonfire, performance by Maria Toboła at Saska Beach (right bank of the Vistula - 51 degrees 13min N, 21 degrees 03min E, you can cross from the left to the right bank by the Słonka ferry)
01.09 Warsaw
12:00 farewell party, Port Czerniakowski, Solec 8
15:00 ceremonial departure of the boat.
17.09 - 19.09 Kazimierz Dolny
bonfire, concerts, performances, activities on the bank opposite the city and on the island.
27.09.2024 Kraków
CRICOTEKA
12:00 performative tour of Jerzy Beres's exhibition
13:00 performance on a boat
17:00 Michał Piasecki - around the book “Water Bodies” by Astrida Neimanis, meeting with the audience.
28.09.2024 Kraków
15:30- 18:00 - Museum Harbor on the Vistula at the mouth of the Rudawa, Rodła Boulevard, (7 mooring poles near the mouth of the Rudawa): historical and natural cruise on the Vistula with a guided tour by Mateusz Niemiec from the Museum of Kraków.
29.09.2024 Kraków
10:00 departure from the Museum Harbor
13:00 parade, tour of Nowa Huta
16:00 House of Utopia:
Tomek Pawłowski - culinary performance
Rafał Mazur - Deep Listening Concert
Cecylia Malik and Sisters of the River - panel
Guided tour of the exhibition Ideal City.