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Sounding the Body Electric. Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957-1984

25th May – 26th August 2012

ms², Ogrodowa 19 St.
Opening: 25 May, 6 p.m.

Neo-Constructivist, light and kinetic art, cybernetic design, concrete and electro-acoustic music were fields of high creativity and experiment in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Seizing the opportunities presented by the relaxation of political control of the arts after Stalinism and exploiting the new official encouragement given to cybernetics, electronics and computing, avant-garde artists and composers began investigating the aesthetic possibilities of electronics and magnetic tape recording. At the same time, other artists seized the possibilities of the happening to produce intermedia artworks combining visual and audio elements.

Curators: David Crowley, Daniel Muzyczuk

Komar & Melamid, Music code passport, 1976

Google Art Project

Thanks to cooperation between Google and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and the Wilanów Palace Museum, the collections of the two latter institutions can now be viewed as a part of a new global Internet platform Art Project. Starting now, within Art Project makes it available to view collections of over 150 museums from 40 countries, including works in high resolution.

"Katja Strunz Zeittraum #9 für Władysław Strzemiński"

"Katja Strunz Zeittraum #9 für Władysław Strzemiński" is a publication accompanying the exhibition Afterimages of Life. Władysław Strzemiński and Rights for Art, which took place at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (30 November 2010 – 27 February 2011). The exhibition curators - Jarosław Lubiak and Paulina Kurc-Maj – invited a German artist Katja Strunz, who re-works the topic of the avant-garde in her art, to cooperate with them on the exhibition. Thanks to Strunz's intervention: a design of the exhibition architecture, we were presented with a new dimension, a new commentary of Strzemiński's works. Strunz, using the letters of the alphabet created by Strzemiński in the beginning of the 1930s, arranged the word “Zeittraum”, which defines the space of the exhibition.

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