Rozmowa z Nadą Prlją
An interview with Nada Prlja
Author(s): Zofia WaślickaSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: peace wall; gentrification; social inequalities; immigrants; urban policies; socially engaged art
Summary/Abstract: Nada Prlja is an artist who works in the public space and tackles the issues of social inequalities and exclusion. During the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, she built a Peace Wall across Friedrichstrasse and thus she blocked the passage between the northern part of the street, which is a tourist attraction, and where expensive shops and restaurants are located; and its southern part, which is inhabited mainly by immigrants, who live in council flats. Nada Prjla tried to visualise the symbolic divide between the rich and the poor part of the street by putting the wall up, whose name alludes to the peace walls that split Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Journal: Studia Litteraria et Historica
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 452-471
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish