26 August - 3 September 2011, 1pm - 5pm

City Beach, 

Southend-on-Sea.
 

Local Eyes is an eco art installation by a London based Polish visual artist Mila Lipowicz.

It presents Sopot (a Polish partner city to Southend) from a point of view of a cyclist.
 

The installation is curated jointly by Deconstruction Project and the Polish Arts Festival, and will be located in the newly rebuild waterfront pedestrian precinct in Southend opposite the Kursaal (this year’s location for the Homeless Gallery exhibition) between Friday 26 August and Saturday 3 September. The public are invited to pedal the installation to power the projector, which will be showing the film. It is to a viewer’s decision to choose the speed of "sightseeing experience"
 

Given that the Thames gateway is hosting the mountain biking at the 2012 London Olympics, this exhibition forms part of our Polish Cultural Training Ground. It also fits with the Festival’s aspiration to introduce events with low carbon outputs.
 

The films have been be shot using the latest high spec wearable, high definition video camera to map out the artists view of Southend’s twin city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Three films will alternate to show the places and people of Sopot, filmed during the city’s summer in July 2011.
 

Views of the beach, Sopot Pier (the longest wooden pier in Europe), the urban greenery behind the city that plays host to the Sopot Opera, busy markets, quiet parks, historic buildings and a population that’s welcomes many UK visitors throughout the year. The films will not only concentrate on iconic views, but will also allow the viewer to discover the local landmarks that are ordinarily missed.

To view the full programme of Polish Arts Festival click here

26 August - 4 September 2011

The Kursaal,

Eastern Esplanade,

Southend-on-Sea

SS1 2WW Essex

Opening times: 12pm - 6pm
Sundays 12pm - 5pm 

On August 26 the ground floor spaces of the magnificent Kursaal building in Southend on Sea will became a home for yet another Homeless Gallery edition. The photography exhibition which initiated in Poland in 2002 has seen over 90 editions worldwide. Last year we saw Dilston Grove in Southwark Park welcome over 80 artists. It is a unique opportunity for photography enthusiasts, art students, professionals and hobbyists to exhibit their work to a wider audience without the constraints of a regular exhibition space.

So 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. All you have to do is to show up at the iconic Kursaal building on either 24 or 25 of August  between 12 - 5pm bring your work and we will help you hang it wherever there is space.  There are no limits to a number or photographs but make sure you arrive early to secure a good spot.

The schedule :
Thursday 25 August,  12pm - 5pm - hanging of works
Friday 26 August, 12pm - 5pm - hanging of works, 5 - 8pm - exhibition opening
Monday 5 September,  12-5 - take down of works
 

The Kursaal building was completed in 1901, with a great silver dome over the entrance. The word Kursaal is German, meaning a "Cure Hall" or spa was adapted to mean a place of healthy amusement. The Kursaal was the world`s first ever theme park, pre-dating Coney Island in America. Designed by the architect Campbell Sherrin who is also known for the Brompton Oratory. The Kursaal ballroom had one of the finest dance floor in England, and was graced by some of the most famous bands and orchestras in the country. Ted Heath, Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Lane all graced the stage. Vera Lynn also began her singing career in the Kursaal Ballroom with the resident bandleader Howard Baker. Fanny and Johnny Craddock demonstrated cookery - badminton matches, boxing and indoor golf all took place in the Kursaal.
 

Please click on the link to the Kursaal space here.
To see Kursaal how it used to be click here.   

For more information on Homeless Gallery please click here.

To see images from our last edition of Homeless Gallery please click here. 

31 July 2011, 7.30pm


I, the Dictator

Arcola Theatre,


24 Ashwin Street, Dalston,


London E8 3DL


Tickets: £14, £11(concession)


29 and 30 July 2011, 9.00pm


Just Simply

Dalston Eastern Curve Garden,


13 Dalston Lane, Dalston,


London E8 3DF

Tickets:
 £10


The Wiczy Theatre will perform in London at The Arcola Theatre and Dalston Eastern Curve Garden as part of International Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU. Both shows are coordinated by Deconstruction Project.


I, the Dictator (2011)


Avant-vaudeville one-man show about the desperate strength of power. An artist against the authorities and a man struggling with his weaknesses. Using tap-dance, mime and an expressive visual style he creates an exciting and intimate theatrical experience. The story reveals human relationships and the international community`s attitude towards Nazi Germany just before World War II. 
We`re all dethroned Monarchs Charlie Chaplin

Just simply (2003)

An open air performance that was created as a protest against the imminent war in Iraq. It is continuous and unchanging anti-war demonstration, which through developments in the international arena is still remarkably current, versatile for everyone in the world. Performance in a humorous way presents pacifist manifesto against all military interference.


The Wiczy Theater is considered a living legend of the alternative theatre in Poland. They are well known for addressing crucial social issues, searching for new means of stage expression.  Close observation of the ordinary day has become the principal aim of their work. They often use elements of happening, improvisation, performance techniques and avant-vaudeville, they also work with artists from different fields: mimes, poets, musicians, painters. 

The Wiczy Theater was established in 1991 in Brodnica by Romuald Wicza Pokojski – a director and culture activist. Sine than the theatre for over a decade has been based in Torun. 

Our theatre - work is the expression of our lives, the lives of other young people, and the world we inhabit.
 Romuald Wicza Pokojski


For more info please visit: Teatr Wiczy

For more info about Polish Presidency International Programme
 please visit : Culture.pl

This event was kindly supported by:

 

 

5 - 17 May 2011, Tuesday – Sunday 12-6pm

Private View: 5 May, 7-9pm

Hatch Space

Unit A.104/6 

Faircharm Trading Estate

Modern Cave Man is part of Young Polish Art, project initiated by Deconstruction Project in 2010.

Deconstruction Poject is pleased to present Modern Cave Man, Joanna Nowek first UK Solo Show at Hatch Space, London

In 2009 Nowek transformed a squat in Bethnal Green to capture the impressions of a primitive life within the modern city. With flat interior elements of wall decorations, the artist shows the effortless simplicity of being able to survive in the exemplified London metropolis.

Photographic assemblages set in dilapidated interiors that capture various aspects of the notion of the primitive within the modern. Nowek lucidly reveals that a framework of routines dating back to our primal origins continues to guide the way we live today.
 

The execution of the photographs draws on the visual language of classic 17th century artists including Vermeer and Snyders. Using the latest digital technology Nowek captures how we interact with our environment using patterns carved in our minds before the dawn of history: the daily life of a caveman in a twenty first century city. A human trapped in a modern cave...
 

Since 2002 Nowek has exhibited in Poland, Spain, Cyprus, Denmark and Italy.

Her series Caravaggio (2004) and Sleeping Beauty (2006/2007) are part of the Lower Silesian Zacheta Fine Art Academy Collection in Wroclaw.

Joanna Nowek lives and works in London.
 

For more information about Joanna Nowek please visit: Joanna Nowek

To download a press release please click here.

To view more pictures form Private View please click here

To read Love and Democracy. Towards a radical democracy through aesthetics. An interview by Daniel Muzyczuk with Pawel Leszkowicz after Love and Democracy exhibition from OBIEG website click here.
 

Part of Kinoteka, 9th Polish Film Festival in London

13 April 2011, 7.30 pm

Barbican Centre

The concert is promoted in association with Deconstruction Project.

Pink Freud are one Poland’s most interesting and promising groups, they are a combination of exploratory traditional Polish jazz, rock, fresh jass and experimental electronica.

“In the spirit of Gdansk’s tradition of improvisatory music Pink Freud have developed their own unique musical language, using custom-built electronic instruments along bass, trumpet and drums and drawing on a truly eclectic range of influences, including jazz, rock, folk, jungle and drum’n’bass. They must have ipod playlists to die for. Check out their cover of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’ on myspace! We think Pink Freud are one of the most interesting and spontaneous jazz groups we’ve come across in recent years. Don’t miss them!” (fertilizer festival/good shit from poland)

"The Strong Man” (1929) Henryk Szaro’s psychological crime thriller about a troubled man driven by greed is considered one of the most important films of the Polish Silent film era, and was also one of the last. Loosely adapted from the novel “Homo Sapiens” by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, this expressionistic exploration of the dark side of the human psyche was thought lost after World War II, but was rediscovered in the Royal Film Archive in Brussels in 1997.

For more information please visit: 9th Kinoteka Film Festival.

Here is a fragment of Strong Man with music by another Polish group Vladimirska: