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EWERYTHING WAS FOREVER
UNTIL IT WAS NO MORE
KONRAD SMOLENSKI
EWERYTHING WAS FOREVER UNTIL IT WAS NO MORE | KONRAD SMOLENSKI
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Format: 17 x 24 cm, 250 p., hard cover
Edited by Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Pindera.
Pages: 248
Colour illustrations: 23
Black-and-white illustrations: 75
Language: English
ISBN: 83 60713 80 4
Publisher: Zachęta National Gallery of Art / Mousse Publishing
2013
"Borrowing its evocative title from a fundamental essay by Alexei Yurchak on the last Soviet generation before the fall of the Eastern Block, Konrad Smoleński gives his installation Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More in the Polish pavilion – a stereophonic system composed of two handmade bells flanked by two rows of broadband speakers and two walls of metal cases – the role of a sentinel of change and, in its foreboding character, that of an interpretation of anxieties and fears. The crescendo of movement of the bells, surrounded by the huge amplification system, generates a sense of expectation charged with uncertainty. Sound and dismaying tension form the basis of many of the works of Smoleński, who operates with photography, video art, installation, performance and happenings, always making use of very sophisticated technical gear. The book published for Poland’s contribution to the 55th Venice Biennale contains essays and conversations – by Hanna Wróblewska, Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Pindera, Julian Barbour, Alexandra Hui, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Andrei Smirnov, Thibaut de Ruyter, Craig Dworkin, Simon Critchley – that analyze the work and the universe of the artist, examining different works in which sound takes on precise political overtones". / MOUSSE publishing
TABLE OF CONTENTS
◦ Hanna Wróblewska Foreword
◦ Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Pindera Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
◦ Time Is Just Succession of Coexisting Things. Conversation with Julian Barbour
◦ Alexandra Hui A Timeline From the Prepared Ear to the Present
◦ Underwater Bells, Plastic Bells, Polystyrene Bells, Marsh Bells . . . Conversation with Eugeniusz Rudnik
◦ Andrey Smirnov Power Supply for Communist Bells
◦ S-T-E-R-E-O. Conversation with Thibaut de Ruyter
◦ Craig Dworkin Cancellation and Vibrational Force
◦ Have You Not Done Tormenting Me with Your Accursed Time! Conversation with Simon Critchley
S.T.R.H. / KONRAD SMOLEŃSKI
S.T.R.H. / Konrad Smoleński
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Texts:
Stones That Rest Heavily - Kamila Wielebska
Sonic Punk. The Sound of Konrad Smolenski - Jan Topolski
The Music of Earthquake Quarter #1 - Andrew J. Michael
Dormant Sound (Final Music), Jan Wozencroft
Format: 16 x 22 cm, 130 p., half soft cover
ISBN 978-83-61646-48-8
Publisher: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk
2013
KONRAD SMOLEŃSKI,
NORMAN LETO
HALF OF TWIN FOR SALE
Konrad Smoleński, Norman Leto — Half of twin for sale
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Text: Michał Lasota
Format: 14 x 15.5 cm, 48 p., soft cover
ISBN 978–83-88947–93-1
Publisher: Municipal Gallery ARSENAL in Poznan,
2009
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