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SPRING IN WARSAW A Walk through the Ghetto led by Public Movement |
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A march, a manifestation, a memorial ceremony, a guided tour and a party
starting point: Umschlagplatz at 6 p.m.
A Walk Through The Ghetto Led by Public Movement was a collaboration of Israeli performance artists with a Polish curator, questioning the intouchability of the Israeli and Jewish Youth Delegations to Poland and exploring the political and aesthetic meanings residing in their rituals. Public Movement members, together with their Polish collaborators, led a walk through the former Warsaw Ghetto, in the form of a march, a manifestation, a new and alter- memorial ceremony, a guided tour, and an urban walk along a route in a rare site of civil pilgrimage.
Israeli and Jewish Youth Delegations are the trips organized by the Ministry of Education of the State of Israel for teenagers, not only as a school program to commemorate the Shoah, but also to raise nationalistic spirit a few months before their military service starts. Many young Israelis, often abroad for the first time without their parents, spend two weeks in Poland only among themselves, which is also due to the strict security standards applied to these organized groups. The majority of Poles is also unaware of the existence of these trips.
Public Movement based in Tel Aviv operates in public spaces, studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, and overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future are manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacle, marches, all inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and humanity.
Spring in Warsaw was part of a series of actions in Nowy Teatr. It was a curatorial choice of performative events on the edge of the fiction and reality, referring also to the “low-technology theater”. The leading topic of the series was the relation in between the imagination and the simplicity of certain gestures making shifts in the perceptional logic of the reality, such as ancient machines to produce magic, home made electronic clocks or fictional ceremonies. Public Movement Members: Luciana Kaplun, Adili Liberman, Gali Libraider, Hagar Ophir, Michael Rosman, Saar Szekely.
From 9 p.m. - on - party at Chlodna 25
Chosen articles: Daniel Miller / Frieze / Perfroming Politics in Germany
Stach Szabłowski, Artystyczny marsz śladami Holocaustu, "Dziennik", 12.04.2009
Agnieszka Kowalska, Jaką Warszawę widzi wycieczka z Izraela?, "Gazeta Wyborcza", 16.04.2009
Jaś Kapela, Zapraszamy państwa do getta, Listy z popkultury, 16.04.2009
Agnieszka Kowalska, Co zobaczą młodzi Żydzi w Warszawie, 'Gazeta Wyborcza", 17.04.2009
Dorota Jarecka,Nie jesteśmy parodystami, "Gazeta Wyborcza", 17.04.2009
Agnieszka Kowalska, Getto odczarowane,"zrobtowwawie.blox.pl", 18.04.2009
Agnieszka Sabor, Wiosna w Warszawie,"Tygodnik Powszechny", 26.04.2009
Katarzyna Tórz, System pamięci,"dwutygodnik.com", kwiecień 2009
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Spring in Warsaw is the third action in Nowy Teatr – after Viewmaster and Standard Time – in the series “low-technology theater”. It is a curatorial choice of performative events on the edge of the fiction and reality. The leading topic of the series is the relation in between the imagination and the simplicity of certain gestures making shifts in the perceptional logic of the reality, such as ancient machines to produce magic, home made electronic clocks or fictional ceremonies. Curated by Joanna Warsza, produced by: Zuza Sikorska
Nowy Teatr Actions > VIEWMASTER | Ula Sickle, Heike Langsdorf, Laurent Liefooghe > STANDARD TIME | Mark Formanek > SPRING IN WARSAW | Public Movement |
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