17.09. - 04.11.
screening Lindenstrasse 35 Berlin,
daily 6 pm – 12 am

KwieKulik
Poses (4 screens), 6:35 min


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Poses was a four channel slide projection of different sets of slides documenting four related Activities. Poses deals with the subjects of originality, appropriation, reenactment, and the position of the observer. The first screen featured an Activity by Jacek Malicki on the reproduction of a Paweł Freisler portrait. While documenting this Activity on colour slides, Kwiek performed various complicated poses (the jerky and the link-like motion can be read as a clue to the methodology), and Kulik simultaneously took photographs of Kwiek on black-and-white negatives. The documentation of the process was projected onto the second screen. The third screen showed Kwiek making the exact same poses but in a different situation, this time against the red panels that KwieKulik had painted as part of one of their hackwork commissions by the Lenin Museum. The fourth screen showed the documentation of an action Kwiek performed using the same poses at a meeting of Polish artists in Lublin. This time, the artist ‘transformed himself into a projector’ by randomly choosing slides from the previous series and reenacting the recorded body poses before the public.