Dziady. Zawłaszczenie
Dziady. Appropriation

Summary/Abstract: Iga Gańczarczyk describes the Dziady project of Łukasz Surowiec (an artist) and Stanisław Ruksza (a curator), which was realised at the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Kraków (6 II – 3 III 2013). The project was divided into two parts. The exhibition part contained documentation of three of the artist’s earlier works: Happy New Year, Black Diamonds and Carts, which takes up the issue of cooperating with the homeless and marginalized. The second part of the exhibition, Waiting Rooms, was a kind of performative space or place open around the clock for anyone, with particular emphasis on “dziady” (granddads), misfits and performers of life. However, due to there being little evidence of artistic and curatorial precision or the kid of forceful institutional constraints which Waiting Rooms was supposed to cut through, the project failed to become anything more than a reserve for the homeless, who were placed in it like objects in an ethnographic village.

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