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Polish Cultural Institute New York // Winter Spring 2015 Brochure POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK wiNter/SPRING 2015 pc i - NY WINTER/SPRING 2015 music 2 THE PASSENGer 6 UNsOuNd 22 AGATA ZuBel THEATER 8 CENTENNial Of TADUESZ KaNtOr 30 IDA KAMIŃsKa 32 OUR CLASS 33 (a)pOllONia visual ARTS 12 STOrYliNES: cONTEMPOrarY ART AT THE GuGGeNHEIM 19 RETRIEVING lOOTED pOLISH wOrKs Of ART 36 ERNa rOSENSTEIN 37 ANDRZeJ WRÓBLEWSKi DANce 14 POLISH NATIONal Ballet HUMANITIES/LITERATURE 16 WARSAW RISING MUSEUM 34 BOOKeXpO AMERICA film 18 the returN 23 IDA 24 OBscure PLEASURES: THE FILMS Of WALERIAN BOrOWCZYK resideNcies/RESEARCH TRIPS 38 VISUAL ARTS: DESIGN 39 music/humaNities about us 40 Polish cultural iNstitute NEW YOrK LOGO FINAL C=0, M=100, Y=100, K=0 and black k=100 Pantone chip 73-1 Dear Friends, 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Thanks to the expertise and dedication of our past and present staff, collaborations with our Polish and American partners and presenters, and the vision and support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, we have been able to bring the very best of Polish art and culture here to the United States. In 2015 the Polish Cultural Institute New York will be celebrating 250 years of public theater in Poland as well as the centennial of Tadeusz Kantor, the visionary theater director and artist. But we start the year with great expectations for Paweł Pawlikowski’s internationally-acclaimed film Ida, which is in the running for the Golden Globes and, we hope, for the Oscars. Also in film, we are planning two major retrospectives of renowned Polish directors: Walerian Borowczyk at the Film Society Lincoln Center in the spring and Wojciech Jerzy Has at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the fall. We will also continue to support smaller projects like the spring presentation of selected films by Piotr Szulkin, whose work we hope to explore in greater depth next year. The Polish Cultural Institute New York also supports bringing Poland’s creative and cultural industries into the United States through our residency program. Having previously supported architecture and landscape architecture, this year we will be bringing the innovative Polish designer Paweł Grobelny to New York City. We’ll also be supporting Polish representation at cultural trade fairs in the US, promoting Polish visual artist Natalia LL at Frieze New York and Polish publishing houses at BookExpo America, both in May. We will continue to organize research trips to Poland to foster collaboration between American and Polish cultural professionals and institutions. For example, this January MoMA curators will visit the archives of the world-famous Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. This season also sees great opportunities for cultural tourism in Poland, such as visiting the recently expanded Cricoteka Center for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Kraków, the Warsaw Rising Museum, and music festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Cross-Culture, Unsound, and Sacrum Profanum. Visitors can enjoy Poland’s modernist cuisine and see the latest trends in crafts and design. In a new initiative, this year the Polish Cultural Institute New York will reach beyond North America by supporting two New York-based Polish visual artists at the 56th Venice Biennale: Joanna Malinowska and CT Jasper in the Polish Pavilion, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, a current A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral C-MAP Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. This issue contains only some of the highlights of the Polish Cultural Institute New York 2015 winter/spring season. Please check out our website www.polishculture-nyc.org, subscribe to our e-blasts, and follow us on social media to get the latest news on our activities, as well as interesting information about Polish art and culture. We wish you all the best for the coming season, and invite you to join us and our partners in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Toronto and Venice. Bartek Remisko Acting Director 2 p c i - N Y 201 5 | music Mieczysław weinberg The Passenger based on the novel by zofia PosMysz February – March 2015 "Music of beauty and enormity…it is a perfect masterpiece…it is a hymn to humanity…to the international solidarity of those who, subjected to the most terrible evil, stood up against fascism." —Dmitri Shostakovich about The Passenger The Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the Chicago premiere of Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger February 24 through March 15, 2015. This poignant and gripping 20th-century masterpiece is set to a libretto by Alexander Medvedev and is based on the book The Passenger by the Polish writer and concentration camp survivor Zofia Posmysz. Suppressed for more than 40 years, Weinberg’s gripping opera has emerged anew, electrifying audiences at Austria’s Bregenz Festival and again in Warsaw and London. The opera had its U.S. premiere on January 18, 2014 at the Houston Grand Opera, and its New York premiere on July 10, 2014 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. The Polish Cultural Institute New York was honored to host Zofia Posmysz for a performance of The Passenger and panel discussions. Onstage, the action of The Passenger moves between two realms—the pristine white deck of a luxury liner above, and the dark horrors of the death camp below. On the liner, a West German diplomat, Walter, and his wife, Liese, are bound for a new posting in Brazil. Unbeknownst to her husband, Liese served as an SS officer in Auschwitz. Her past comes back to haunt her when she thinks she recognizes a fellow passenger as one of the prisoners she oversaw. Liese is never able to confirm whether the woman she sees is truly Marta, the Polish prisoner she once manipulated, and The Passenger makes no attempt at closure or reconciliation. Instead, the harsh and complex realities of the mass murder Liese helped perpetrate, and of her inescapable guilt, are unsparingly confronted. In conjunction with The Passenger, Lyric Unlimited—the arm of Lyric Opera of Chicago dedicated to community engagement, new artistic initiatives, and collaborative events— is partnering with a range of cultural institutions to present a wide-ranging series exploring the themes and messages of Weinberg’s important work. Memory and Reckoning includes discussions with scholars and creators of the Passenger production, performances of Weinberg chamber music by members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, orchestral music by the Northwestern University symphony and chamber orchestras, a film screening of the classic 1963 Polish film version of the book, directed by Andrzej Munk, and the world premiere of a newly commissioned klezmer opera, The Property by Wlad Marhulets. Please visit our website www.polishculture-nyc.org or Chicago Lyric Opera’s website for details. 4 p c i - N Y 201 5 | music The Passenger is a co-production of Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria; Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa Warszawa; the English National Opera, London; and Teatro Real, Madrid. The Lyric Opera presentation of The Passenger is generously supported by Richard P. and Susan Kiphart, Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel, the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation, Sidley Austin LLP, Manfred and Fern Steinfeld, and Helen and Sam Zell, with additional support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw as part of the Polska Music program. A project of Lyric Unlimited, The Property and Memory and Reckoning are supported by an anonymous donor and Seymour H. Persky, with additional support from Joyce E. Chelberg and the Polish Cultural Institute New York. The partner organizations involved in Memory and Reckoning are the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago. Zofia Posmysz was born in Kraków on August 23, 1923. When World War II broke out, she dropped out of school and in order to avoid deportation to Germany as a forced laborer, she became a waitress at a German mess hall, while continuing her education illegally. On April 15, 1942, she and her classmates were arrested, and soon Posmysz was deported to Auschwitz before being relocated to a penal camp in the nearby village of Budy. After two months of starvation and hard labor they were sent to the new women’s camp in Birkenau. In Birkenau, Pomysz contracted diseases which decimated the inmates, but later was assigned less strenuous activities, which gave her a better chance for survival: in the kitchen and stockroom. She met Tadeusz Paolone-Lisowski, brought from the men’s camp to train her in bookkeeping. On January 18, 1945 the camp was evacuated in the infamous “Death March.” The surviving women were transferred to the Ravensbrück camp and later to a sub-camp in Neustadt-Glewe. The sub-camp was liberated by the Allies on May 2, 1945. With a group of twenty female companions, she decided to walk back home (an episode depicted in her story “To Freedom, to Death, to Life”). She arrived in Kraków at the end of May to find that her father, a railroad worker, had been killed by a German railroad policeman in August 1943. She moved to Warsaw and started her course of study at the Polish Department of the University of Warsaw. She worked part-time as a proofreader at a newspaper and after graduation got a job working for the literary section of Polish Radio.
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