PEA and Centrala present the best video art from the Points or View Video Festival, originally taking place in Łódź, Poland since 2011. The Festival is a platform for the presentation of current video works made by students and recent graduates from fine art academies in Poland, as well as artists from Łódź’s partner cities: Vilnius and Berlin. The Birmingham presentation comprises a selection of videos shown in Łódź between 2011 and 2013 and a selection from Vilnius and Berlin. The weekend includes a special screening featuring works by internationally acclaimed Polish artist Artur Żmijewski.VIDEO SCREENINGS WEEKEND PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 26 JULY 2014 16:00—21: 00
16:00 • Videos from the UK & Poland
17:00 • Videos by Artur Żmijewski
18:00 • Talk by Jakub Majmurek, an expert on Artur Żmijewski
Germany: George Drivas, Eduardo S. Mayorga, Faye Mullen, Iris Musolf, Gabriele Stelbaum, Ewa Surowiec, Clemens Wilhelm, Nuno Vicente
Lithuania: Šalnė Bučiūtė, Eglė Butkutė, Gediminas G. Akstinas, Gintaras Didţiapetris, Antanas Gerlikas, Tadas Kanapinskas, Ţymantas Katinas, Saulius Kmieliauskas, Donata Minderytė, Marija Olšauskaite, Petras Olšauskas
Poland: Małgorzata Goliszewska, Tomasz Koszewik, Magdalena Lazar, Justyna Misiuk, Maria Ornaf, Katarzyna Pacura, Piotr Światoniowski, Mikolaj Tkacz, Hubert Wińczyk, Agata Witkowska, Paweł Żukowski
UK: Sophie Bullock, Denise Brighton, Tereza Buskova, Craig Green, Stuart Layton, Grace Williams, Ioannis Voulgaris
Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique) is the largest Eastern European liberal network of institutions and activists. It consists of the online daily Dziennik Opinii, a quarterly magazine, publishing house, cultural centres in Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk and Cieszyn, activist clubs in a dozen cities in Poland (and also in Kiev and Berlin), as well as a research centre: the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
