Deconstruction Project

Past Projects 2010

Homeless Gallery - photography exhibition open to all! Part of Photomonth - East London Photography Festival 2010

12 - 21 November 2010

 

Dilston Grove

Southwest corner of Southwark Park

London SE16 2DD

 

Schedule:

Friday 12th, 9am-4pm - hanging of works

Saturday 13th, 9am -12pm  - hanging of works

                           3pm - 6pm - private view  

Live jazz - Maurizio Minardi (piano) / Maciej Konieczny (sax) 

Sunday 14th - Sunday 21st, 10am - 4pm - public view

Sunday 21st - take down of the exhibition and closing

 

This year Homeless Gallery will be held at the unique exhibition space at Dilston Grove. For ten days in November Dilston Grove will become a temporary home for Homeless Gallery’s second edition. Organised by Deconstruction Project with the support of Polish Cultural Institute in London.

 

The idea for the Homeless Gallery was born in the minds of two well-acclaimed Polish photographers – Tomek Sikora and Andrzej Swietlik. The Homeless Gallery is a celebration of photography in its many forms, appears fleetingly wherever and whenever there is a need amongst photographers from various backgrounds to exhibit their works to a larger audience.

Homeless – because it has no permanent address, it appears for a short while, after which it disappears, only to reappear again in a completely different place. It appears wherever a place becomes available to give photography a home. The idea of organizing the Homeless Gallery is very simple. We look for a good location - empty factories awaiting reconstruction or other already established gallery spaces and when we find it we adapt it as the Homeless Gallery space. Everybody can show their work: professionals, students, amateurs, and hobbyists. There is no curatorship and no entry requirements. We have no demands as to a subject, technique, format or number of photographs shown as long as the space allows it.

 

Dilston Grove is the former Clare College Mission Church on the Southwest corner of Southwark Park and is Grade II listed. Designed by architects Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton, it was built in 1911 and is one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction.

 

If you are a photographer by day or night, if you are a professional, a student or just a hobbyist and would like to share your view of the world with others through your work this is a show for you.  For anyone who would like to participate in the exhibition all you have to do is come to Dilston Grove on Friday November 12 (9-4pm) or Saturday November 13 (9-12pm) with your photographs and hang them yourself.

 

For more information please visit: Homeless Gallery

 

To view more photos please click here

 

The event was kindly supported by: 

Jarek Smietana Trio Double Show At Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho

30 October 2010

6pm and 10pm

 

Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho

10 Dean Street
London  W1D 3RW

 

Jazz night with Jarek Smietana Trio featuring phenomenal musicians:
Jarek Smietana – Electric Guitar
Yaron Stavi – Double Bass
Adam Czerwinski – Drums
 

Jarek Smietana is one of Europe leading guitarists. He is Poland’s most famous Jazz guitarist and has been a leading force on the Polish Jazz scene for almost 40 years.
He has played all over the world collaborating with musicians such as Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Henderson, Joe Zawinul and more. Yaron Stavi is one of the UK leading bass players. The two met while playing together in Nigel Kennedy’s band. Adam Czerwinski has been Jarek’s regular drummer for many years.The trio has been working together for several years recording and touring around the world.
On the night they will play some of Jarek Smietana’s original music plus music by Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Jimmy Hendrix and more.
 

“Jarek Smietana’s music is always personal yet constantly communicative with an individual voice”
(Leszek Katarski, “Jazz Forum”)

"... All the notes fall naturally into place. Never garrulous or merely exhibitionistic, it is a jazz concert of the highest calibre. Each phrase is swinging and is full of drive and feeling. In brief, that is how you can describe the music of Jarek Smietana, one of the most outstanding Polish jazz musicians. He has created his own music style and individual sound, always personal yet constantly communicative. His first priority is the highest possible artistic level".
(Leszek Kotarski, "Jazz Forum")
 

For more information please visit: Jarek Smietana

Polish Arts Festival 2010

8 - 12 September 2010

Southend-on-Sea

 

This year Deconstruction Project has joined forces with Hungry Arts and their other partners to organize second edition of the Polish Arts Festival in Southend on Sea.
 

The aim of the festival is to celebrate the very best of Polish culture and art, to develop new international artistic collaborations, and to help nurture the special relationship between Southend-on-Sea and Sopot, Southend`s Polish twin, on the Baltic Sea. Together with other participants we created an intensive artistic experience with each event offering its audience something uniquely special. 
 

For the Polski Piknic on the 12th of September we have invited Jolanta Surma to lead workshops on Makrame Crafts (the art of knotting). We were also running Wycinanki workshops (the art of Polish paper cuts) for children.
 

Also as part of the Polish Arts Festival Deconstruction Project, supported by Metal Gallery has curated a five-day exhibition at Metal`s Chalkwell Hall Gallery Space. The exhibition: YPA’s_Metal, comprises of works by contemporary Polish artists living and working in London: Agata Grela, Renata Jaworska, Agnieszka Kucharko, Katarzyna Garapich-Depta and Eva Lis.
 

We have also organized a jazz concert at The Railway Hotel featuring Maciek Pysz Tio.
 

For more information please visit: Polish Arts Festival

 

To view more photos please click here

YPA_ Metal exhibition

8 - 12 September 2010

Private View - 11th September, 6pm-9pm

 

Metal at Chalkwell Hall

Chalkwell Avenue
Southend on Sea
SS0 8NB

 

"Young Polish Art at Metal" exhibition was our main artistic contribution to the Polish Arts Festival 2010. The aim of the show was to present new and recent works by emerging Polish artists living and working in the UK as a part of a festival, which celebrates traditional Polish art and culture abroad. 

The exhibition comprises of works by : Renata Jaworska, Agata Grela, Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, Eva Lis and Agnieszka Kucharko.
 

This is the first time the London based Polish arts organization, Deconstruction Project, are curating a show, which not only forms an important contemporary visual element to the Polish Arts Festival at Southend-on-Sea, but also puts forward their agenda of a Polish identity interlacing itself into the fabric of British art.
 

Each artist explores the fragmentation of identity and sites of tension as they encounter themselves in everyday life. By transforming their experiences into art, the processes they engage with can be revelatory, disappointing, painstaking or even add to the confusion of multi-culturalism. However, through deconstruction comes reconstruction and thus even in failure or the demonstration of failure these artists hope to create fruitful experiences for both themselves and their audiences. 
 

Alexandra Herbich, YPA_Metal Exhibition Catalogue
 

The show  was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. For more information and how to purchase it please click here.

 


 

Jazz Night with Maciek Pysz Trio. Part of the Polish Arts Festival 2010

10 September 2010

8pm - 10.30 pm

 

The Railway Hotel Pub
Clifftown Road
Southend on Sea
SS1 1AJ

 

The band was established by Polish guitarist Maciek Pysz in May 2008 and features: Maciek on acoustic guitar, Dado Pasqualini on percussion, Mao Yamada on double bass. All musicians share a passion for acoustic music and intricate rhythms from South American countries, thus decided to bring together their vast influences and offer a unique blend of jazz and world music. Their music style has been described as `an exquisite jazz sound with a touch of World rhythms` and appeals not only to jazz audiences. Maciek`s musical ideas are fresh, accessible, and very pleasurable to hear.
 

Maciek Pysz Trio has been successfully performing a mix of standards and originals with an energy and enthusiasm that is hugely infectious. Some of the venues include Ronnie Scotts, Charlie Wright`s, Jazz Cafe POSK and The Ritzy Café.

 

For more information please visit: Maciek Pysz

Made in Polska: Music Session 03 presents Monika Lidke Quartet

25 June 2010

7.30pm - midnight

 

Bedroom Bar

62 Rivington Street

London

EC2A 3AY

 

Jazz Night
 with
 Monika Lidke Quartet

Monika Lidke is a singer and a songwriter whose fresh and unique bossa nova like songs in English, Polish, and French with elements of folk, jazz and Latin smoothly blend together and make each performance truly remarkable. Monika Lidke has been successfully performing on the Jazz scene since 2004. Some of the venues include Ronnie Scotts, Charlie Wrights International, Oliver`s Music Bar, Pizza Express Soho and the London Jazz Festival’09.

Her debut album brought attention to Sarah Ward (Jazz Fm) who considers it a fresh and individual addition to contemporary jazz scene.

 

“Disarmingly lovely trilingual folk-jazz singer Lidke headlines here with her fragile, melodic originals, she sounds like a space-jazz take on Stina Nordenson`s icy charms with bossa nova undercurrents.”

Time Out

 

Afterwards a set by DJ Maciej

 

For more information please visit: Monika Lidke

 

Deconstruction Project Relaunch Bash

28 May 2010

7.30pm - midnight

 

Bedroom Bar

62 Rivington Street

London

EC2A 3AY

 

After five months of hard work the time has come to officially announce our metamorphosis. As most of you probably know in 2010 Polish deConstruction became Deconstruction Project and while still remaining a platform for Polish arts and culture, it opened its doors to the collaborative opportunities for the ever-expanding international art scene London offers.

To celebrate that we take over Bedroom Bar once again presenting a DJ night of Polish Golden Hits! 


 

With all that there will be some delicious Polish buffet served complimentary by Mamuska - the Elephant and Castle based Polish Bar Mleczny.

 

Made in Polska Music Session 02 presents Maciek Pysz Group

29 April 2010

7.30pm - midnight

 

Bedroom Bar

62 Rivington Street

London

EC2A 3AY

 

A night of acoustic jazz from the acknowledged Maciek Pysz Group featuring: Maciek Pysz on acoustic guitar, Dado Pasqualini on percussion, Jerelle Jacob on double bass and Ryszard Graca on guitar. The group has been compared to E.S.T. and Avishai Cohen Trio led by acoustic guitar. They have recorded their first demo entitled `Discoveries` in November 2008 featuring original pieces written by Maciek Pysz.

 

"Maciek Pysz Group - Acoustic guitar/Percussion/Bass-led world roots and modern jazz sounds from this EST / Avishai Cohen-sounding trio... Recommended! 

Time Out

 

After the concert our guest DJ Andrew Citizen Dub will lead us through the night with his most original experimental electronic sounds. You can listen to some of his tracks here.

For more information please visit: Maciek Pysz

OFF_Anthologia Book Launch

25 March 2010

7.30pm - midnight

 

Bedroom Bar

62 Rivington Street

London EC2A 3AY

 

OFF_ is a UK-based independent press, promoting contemporary creative writing in English and Polish translation.
 Based in London, published on-line, OFF_Press aims to bring you the latest and best in contemporary creative writing from Poland, in English language translation, and wherever possible in the original.

 

The night features: readings from Off_Anthologia
, screening of a documentary "Through the grey zone", discussion with film directors Lilian Tietjen and Sam Taradash, music by Pawel Gawronski



 

For more info and some great reading material please visit: OFF_PRESS

Made in Polska Music Session 01

25 February 2010

7.30pm - midnight

 

Bedroom Bar
62 Rivington Street
London
EC2A 3AY

Our first Made in Polska Music Session - East London regular event happening on every last Thursday of the month.

Deconstruction Project has a pleasure to host a great night of a funky jazz featuring Maciej Konieczny on saxophone and DJ Maciej.

 

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