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The Edward Said Program
in:
Dialog Loci Exhibition, Public Space, Kostrzyn, 2004,
project: Roman Dziadkiewicz, cooperation/participation: Jan Sowa, Zorka Wollny, Mateusz Kula, Pif-Paf Group, Andrzej Zwawa, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Szczesny Gorski, Malenstwo, Karolina Kowalska, Janek Simon, hip-hop squad from Kostrzyn and others.
Dialog Loci
- international art project that took place in the summer of 2004 in the former fortress city of Kostrzyn (Kustrin) on the Polish-German border. 'The city which was forgotten after its utter devastation at the end of the Second World War inspired international artists to a unique dialogue with the place.
 The fundacja36,6' project for Dialog Loci was called the Edward Said Progam - as a homage to the great Palestinian intellectual.
We not only call him the main patron of this project, but also the supplier of humanistic propositions towards the relation in cultures, as well as solving border-territory problems. Died on 24 September 2003, E.Said Palestinian intellectual, professor in comparative literature,
known as 'Palestinian conscientiousness', was one of the greatest humanists of the XX century.
Some offers in the programme, are not meant to be directly corresponding with Said's research, but with the problem of dissident incorrectness, utopia, as well as permanent disagreeing in cutting conclusions, observations, is the problem we deal with recalling to his authority.
 The E. Said Program took place trough the entire duration of Dialog Loci, directing its reflection and artistic activities towards local social issues; difficulties that are an outgrowth of the situation at the Polish-German borderland. This includes the historical, political, economic and cultural conditions as well as symbols, metaphors and generalizations related to this context. Edward Said, who died in 2003, was a Palestinian humanist, theorist of culture interested in cultural relations between the East and the West. He provides the theoretical tools, observations and analogies which (in micro scale) we have confronted with the reality of Kostrzyn (and Dialog Loci small quasi-colonial society), as well as with current socio-political problems on a global scale (for which Kostrzyn's complex reality serves as a metaphor).
The E.Said Program consists of complementary issues that exist on the fringe of artistic-social-educational activities and theoretical reflections. It includes among other things the twilight zone conference, lectures about E.Said, a series of workshop referring to the border region, identity, relations between the self and Other, the definition of social space or politics of architecture; the mini-festival polityka/elektronika and the travel agency into private into private space operating troughout the project and providing information about all activities realized within the project's framework (for example the multimedia game total chess or the kostrzyn' monopoly).
The Program consists of complementary issues that exists on the fringe of artistic-social-educational activities and theoretical reflections. It includes among other things the twilight zone conference, intro lecture on E.Said, a series of workshops refering to the border region, identity, relations between the Self and the Other; the mini festival polityka-elektronika (called off by organizers)
 During and after realization, the project was a very inspired field of experiences and critical reflections on communication errors, problems, and non-correlations in-between art community (idiom of production) , social activists (idiom of utopia) and local society (idiom of a defence of freedom - the space where the project took place was/is a public, city area. It was enclosured trough the duration of the Dialog Loci, what makes a full-of-conflict 'relation of power' between high, colonized culture (the exhibition) and local community / walker.
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