Dialogues with Polish Art

17/11/2011 Edinburgh College of Art
Main Lecture Theatre, 7p.m.

This edition will feature films by Wojtek Doroszuk, a video artist based in Krakow, Poland and
Rouen, France.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Department of Painting,

in 2006. His works have been shown at Centre for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw;

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Location One, New York; Marina Abramovic Institute, San
Francisco; Belfast Exposed, Belfast; The Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Zachęta National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw.

The major underlying theme in his work is the fear of the Other, which embraces the broad issue of
identity - from national to sexual - and a tendency to define one's identity in terms of the differences in
others.

“Raspberry Days” is a film about Polish raspberry pickers working in Norway. It is filmed in the
idealistic convention of a naturalist documentary.
In “Raisefieber” Wojtek impersonates roles of Polish emigrants working in Germany. It references
the films of Shahram Entekhabi, who played stereotypical roles of a Muslim fundamentalist, Kurdish
activist and guerilla-combatant.
In “Birkac yer”, a Turkish transsexual during a taxi trip shows the most important places from his life in
Ankara - the place where he was forced to marry another man, the prison where he was held and the
place where he fights for freedom with other activists.