Offscreen Notes
Enthusiasm. Artists: Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
“For ten years, British artists Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska have been exploring forms of collaborative cultural production. The projects they have been engaged in research new ways of artistic practice, particularly in relation to cultural institutions that define, promote and distribute art. On this occasion, these collaborators have created an exhibition and archive of films produced by the Polish amateur film movement between the l950s and l980s. In Poland, in the Socialist era, leisure was organized through factory clubs sponsored by the state. In this project developed over three years, the artists explore the unexpectedly creative response of ordinary people to the oppressions of official culture. The exhibition comprises a reconstruction of a film club interior and three cinemas, screening found films divided into three subjects (Love, Labour, Longing), as well as an archive room of found films. This will be the first North American presentation following its appearance at Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art, the Whitechapel Gallery in London and Tapies Foundation in Barcelona.”
