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The Eye Never Sleeps 2023

Event program

PROLOGUE July 4, 2023
Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz

07/04/2023 – 09/03/2023

The exhibition will be open to the public from July 4 to September 3. The exhibition will have its
vernissage during the opening of the festival on August 10.
WE THE WATER / MY WODA, exhibition by Wojtek Radtke

August 10-13, 2023

10/08

THURSDAY - Day one

MOB - District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz, Multikino, Rother's Mills, Mill Island

10/08/2023

4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

MOB – District Museum, Gdańska 4 St.
Different culture algorithms: dreams, trances, ecstasies lecture by prof. Waldemar Kuligowski

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Municipal Gallery bwa, Gdańska 20 St.
Opening of the festival and vernissage of Wojtek Radtke’s exhibition WE THE WATER / MY WODA

8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Multikino, Marszałka Ferdynanda Focha 48 St./ we provide transport

  • The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks, 20′ dir. Marcin Giżycki and Grzegorz Pleszyński,
  • 98 kg, 5′, dir. Izabela Plucińska
  • Blask, 5′, dir. Rafal “Rufus” Petrowicz

The special guest will be Hanna Margolis.
After the screening there will be a meeting with the directors.

9:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.

Rother’s Mills, Mennica 10 St.
Corpuscle, performance by Justyna Celeda, Alicja Pilarczyk, Katherine Newton

11 p.m. to midnight

Hotel Marina, Mill Island (exact location will be announced soon)
Transphobia 0.0 free – installation by Kuba Elwertowski and Maciej Szymborski

11/08

FRIDAY - Day two

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Cultural Center, Rother's Mills, Exploseum

11/08/2023

noon to 12:30 p.m.

Mill Island
Silesia, black gold and other legends, performance: Piotr Kumor

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Cultural Center, Kościeleckich 6 St.
Agnieszka Taborska’s Farewell to Surrealism A meeting with Agnieszka Taborska devoted to her books Roland Topor’s Archipelago, Lokator, 2021 and The world went crazy. Surrealist Guide. How to survive, Bosz, 2021

3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Rother’s Mills, Mennica 10 St.
Author’s meeting with Anda Rottenberg around her new book Rozrzut, Wydawnictwo Krytyka Polityczna, 2023

5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Opening of the E X P [ L ] O exhibition, Exploseum, ul. Alfreda Nobla / we provide transport
Curator: Robert Kuśmirowski
participants: Monika and Tomasz Bielakowie, Piotr Bujak, Marta Fic, Artur Grejner, Grzegorz Klaman, Cezary Klimaszewski, Tomasz Krzpiet, Robert Kuśmirowski, Jaroslaw Lustych, Agnieszka Łukaszewska, Dominika Macocha, Honorata Martin, Patryk Paliwoda, Urszula Pieregończuk, Wojtek Radtke, Radoslaw Skóra, Patrycja and Andrzej Sobiepan, Agnieszka Szultk, Anna Waszczuk, Marta Zgierska

7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

E X P [ L ] O, Exploseum, Alfreda Nobla St.
Agressiva 69, concert

9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Mill Island
Trance ends at the feet or global warming, Grzegorz Pleszyński, the Black Dwarf Social Choir and Jerzy Mazzoll
Guest starring: Kevin Górzyński

10:45 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Departure to the Astronomical, Cultural and Didactic Center in Niedźwiady / we provide transport
Star observation and performance by Józef Żuk

12/08

SATURDAY - Day three

Exloseum, MOB- District Museum in Bydgoszcz, City Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz, Gallery 2B+L, Mill Island

12/08/2023

noon to 8 p.m.

Exhibition E X P [ L ] O, Exploseum, Alfreda Nobla St.

noon to 2 p.m.

District Museum, Gdańska 4 St.
A retrospective of Marcin Giżycki’s animations and documentaries. Meeting with Hanna Margolis, colleagues and friends of Marcin, among others: Agnieszka Taborska, Anda Rottenberg, Elżbieta Jeznach, Łukasz Owczarzak, Grzegorz Pleszyński

Books by Marcin Giżycki will be available: Cinema of artists and artists. From Melies to Maciunas, Wydawnictwo Słowa/obraz territorial, 2023, Limericks and other own and borrowed poems, Austeria 2023, “Blues” Austeria, 2022

3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Municipal Gallery bwa, Gdańska 20 St.
Collection Medicine – curatorial tour of the exhibition of Grzegorz Schmidt’s collection:
Sławek Brzoska, Teresa Bujnowska, Marek Chlanda, Stanisław Dróżdż, Koji Kamoji, Jaroslaw Kozłowski, Moshe Kupferman, Andrzej Leśnik, Eugeniusz Markowski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Zofia Rydet, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Kajetan Sosnowski, Antoni Starczewski, Jonasz Stern, Maciej Szańkowski, Marek Szczęsny, Andrzej Szewczyk, Monika Szwed, Tomasz Tatarczyk, Ryszard Winiarski, Jerzy Wronski.
Curators: Danuta Milewska, Mania Schmidt, Grzegorz Schmidt
Organiser: Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz
Cooperation: Ładne Życie Foundation

6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

E X P [ L ] O, Exploseum, Alfreda Nobla St./ we provide transport
Being Jewish in Deutschland – A stand-up tragedy, performance by Brian Michaels

7 p.m. to 7:30

E X P [ L ] O, Exploseum, Alfreda Nobla St./ we provide transport
WHAT FLAG FLUTTERS OVER MY CITY, based on AZ, from the series Question about colour, performance: Janusz Bałdyga

11 p.m. to midnight

Galeria 2B+ L (concert on the river, seating on the shore of Mill Island)
Tadeusz Sudnik/Marcin Oleś, concert

13/08

Sunday - Day four

District Museum bwa, in Bydgoszcz, Exploseum, Rother's Mills

13/08/2023

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wystawa E X P [ L ] O, Exploseum, Alfreda Nobla St.

1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

2B+L Gallery
Agnieszka Taborska’s Intimate Journals A meeting with Agnieszka Taborska devoted to her books The Man Who Waits. Pandemic on the mansard, published by Lokator, 2020 and the elegy Quicksand that is currently being created

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

MOB – District Museum, Gdańska 4 St.
Mystical Siberia, Arun Milcarz, stage reporter’s story (travel standup)

6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Pleszyński Cobra Gallery, Kościuszki 27 St.
Trances of spiritualists and surrealists, lecture by Agnieszka Taborska

7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Bureau of Lost Dreams – Mist for Marcin, performance by Elżbieta Jeznach
Free entrance

Festival closing

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