This year the formula of MFK has changed a bit like the formula of most festivals and cultural events. However, if you have been waiting for this year's edition of the Month of Photography you will not be disappointed! The organizers have prepared many attractions and unforgettable experiences. MFK is already underway as of May 21 - don't waste time and join the longest and most innovative Month in history!
The18th edition of the Month of Photography will take a slightly different form this year. Lectures, talks, meetings, presentations and workshops will take place online, and some of the exhibitions will be presented as: books, websites and "artistic interventions" recorded by the artists on location. There will also be classic exhibitions, which will be opened as galleries and museums become available, with sanitary restrictions, probably starting as early as the end of June. A month is a contractual term, as this year's festival will last a dozen weeks - at least until the end of the vacations!
Among the proposed series of online events will be:
Photographer(s) in Action - a series of meetings and discussions with artists, photographers, curators, invited to this year's festival, through which we want to present attitudes towards rapid changes in the contemporary world. Among our interlocutors will be Sebastian Cichocki, Karolina Gembara, Witek Orski, Agnieszka Rayss, Dyba and Adam Lach, Lena Dobrowolska, Teo Ormond-Skeaping, Karol Hordziej, and Weronika Perłowska.
Psycho Big Talk - a series of talks by Aga Kozak, in which we try to answer the questions Where do we actually find ourselves? Does humanity, history, psychology know such states? Can it be called a crisis, or is this situation we are in a great end-of-the-world exercise and this test of humanity can still be passed? How can it be done? How to deal with this great crisis? What phases will we go through and what will happen to us? How will artists respond to this? Bartlomiej Dobroczynski, head of the Department of General Psychology, Remigiusz Ryzinski, professor of philosophy and writer, and Pawel Szypulski, director of Greenpeace Poland, and Aleksandra Przegalinska - a Polish philosopher, futurologist, and artificial intelligence specialist - have been invited to talk.
A sensitive jutuber and a writer without a job? The future of storytelling - together with Karolina Sulej, we invite you to a series of conversations with Karolina Rychter, Kasper Bajon and Olga Wróbel, during which we will consider How will we look, listen and communicate with the world and ourselves in the future? How will the pandemic affect the shape of audiovisual and word culture? We will look at the problem from a variety of perspectives - literary studies, cultural studies, philosophical studies, film language, comics, poetry and prose, cultural participants and creators.
Why images? This is a beginning of a several-year series of dialogues and meetings using video, text, images. Together with contemporary theorists(cz) and practitioners(cz), we want to look at the global republic of images in search of the democratic potential of photography. The dialogues will take place on a blog-like platform. It is curated by Krzysztof Pijarski and Witek Orski. Its premiere as a digital publication will take place in 2022. Organizers of the series: Month of Photography in Krakow, View. Visual Culture Foundation / Jasna Center of Political Criticism, Visual Narrative Laboratory.
Once again, the ShowOFF section will present the works of eight young artists selected through an open competition: Octavian Jurczykowski, Domenico Camarda, Aleksandra Nowysz, Agata Read, Bart Krezolka, Joanna Szpak Ostachowska, Jakub Stanek and Dominik Wojciechowski.
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