Laura Palmer Foundation

IDEA: Laura Palmer Foun­da­tion oper­ates on the verge of fic­tion and real­ity. Bor­row­ing its name from the char­ac­ter whose cen­tral absence orga­nizes the action of David Lynch’s movie Twin Peaks, the col­lec­tive pro­duces actions, con­cep­tual exhi­bi­tions, par­tic­i­pa­tion events, staged sit­u­a­tions and per­for­mances. Incor­po­rat­ing real life and fic­tious or staged events, con­fronting expe­ri­ence and its rep­re­sen­ta­tion, Laura Palmer treats curat­ing as an art form.

ORGAN­I­SA­TION: Laura Palmer is an inde­pen­dent, non-​profit label and was cre­ated in 2007 by Joanna Warsza. The main advis­ers are Agnieszka Kurant (artist) and Janek Sowa (soci­ol­o­gist, activist). It is run by Joanna Warsza (artis­tic direc­tor) and Zuza Siko­rska (pro­ducer). Coop­er­at­ing design­ers are Kuba de Bar­baro and Rene Wawrzkiewicz. For each project dif­fer­ent artists, experts, jour­nal­ists, activist and other part­ners are invited.

ATTEN­DANCE AND STA­TIS­TICS: In its very short life­time the Foun­da­tion gained a very trust­ful audi­ence wel­com­ing over 700 people to each man­i­fes­ta­tion. The Laura Palmer projects are fully cov­ered by daily and pro­fes­sional media and press (“Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Dziennik”, “Inrockuptibles”, “TVP Kultura”, “TVN”, Tok Fm, “Berliner Zeitung” and many more.)

PRO­FILE: Laura Palmer has been oper­at­ing mostly in the public space search­ing for ‘shifts’ in the struc­ture of the real, and espe­cially in one very par­tic­u­lar loca­tion in the city center of Warsaw – the ruined and aban­doned 10th-Anniversary Sta­dium. It’s a former com­mu­nist show­piece, a sports venue for 100,000 spec­ta­tors which ceased its sport activ­ity early 1990s, becom­ing a ruined site with the sur­round­ing open-​air market known as Jar­mark Europa cre­at­ing a symbolic ‘city within a city’

AWARDS AND MORE: Laura Palmer was awared by “Gazeta Wyborcza” for the best project 2007 (for A Trip to Asia), and nom­i­nated by “Aktivist” Cul­ture Mag­a­zin best action 2007 and by TV Kul­tura, best project 2007. Laura Palmer Foun­da­tion is extremely non-​profit and low-​cost organ­i­sa­tion. The term ‘Foundation’ is used some­how sub­ver­sively but also accord­ing to the polish low, where Foun­da­tions are easy to estab­lish with­out an ini­tial cap­i­tal.

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Dimen­sional sym­bols, such as L, form a group: there is an iden­tity, L0=1; there
is an inverse to L, which is 1/L or L-1, and L raised to any ratio­nal power p is a
member of the group, having an inverse of L-p or 1/e to L, which is 1/L or L-1,

pozy­cja x = 200 * ( 1 + 0.8 * sin( 4.2 + pioruny * 0.012 ) )
pozy­cja y = 200 * ( 1 + 0.8 * sin( 3.1 + inny_​parametr * 0.023 ) )