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an introduction to a film "Mirage, In Order of Appearance" in a form of a Spiritist séance (medium : Andrzej Szpindler) took place in National Museum in Warsaw on 23rd of October 2015.

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"Sand Heap" tomorrow

"Sand Heap" today

Curated By Sebastian Cichocki : "Hollow Blocks in a Windowless Room”

with Łukasz Jastrubczak and cameo appearances of Robert Barry Susanne Kriemann Paweł Kruk Małgorzata Mazur Agnieszka Polska Sept 11 - Nov 14, 2015

Galerie Knoll, Vienna The exhibition revolves around excerpts from “Minus Twelve”, Robert Smithson’s notes on the qualities of minimal art (1968). All the displayed objects – artworks, documents and found objects - are related to the “Mirage” project (2011- ongoing) by the visual artist Łukasz Jastrubczak and the curator Sebastian Cichocki – which initially materialized as the book of the same title. It consisted of correspondence between the authors, in the form of a game or “duel” of images and text. Jastrubczak’s photographs arose during the artist’s journey around the United States, and Cichocki’s textual responses (treated as “curatorial guides and references”) were written in Poland and based, in part, on earlier essays by Smithson and other artists active in the 60s and 70s. In response to photographs sent by email, texts arose that were guides for the taking of subsequent photos, and so on. The authors had only 24 hours to respond. The book was then reinterpreted in a series of staged lectures, concerts, public readings, and finally the film "Mirage: In Order of Appearance". The film was shot in the summer of 2014, when the authors decided to go on an American journey in the footsteps of theirs protagonists: the pioneer of green conceptualism John G. Lee, his partner Anna Zaloon and the teenage hitchhiker Mia. Some elements in the exhibitions are cameo appearances by guest artists (including the legendary conceptual artist, Robert Barry), works interwoven into the somehow cinematic sequence of events.

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ANDRZEJ SZPINDLER on MIRAGE BOOK in polish

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Jan G. Lee was born in Lafayette Hills, California, in 1938. An artist and author of literary texts, he is a forester by education. From 1968 to 1971 he conducted artistic actions (“visions”) at Mount Diablo State Park, using natural processes (objects subject to rotting, erosion, melting, crystallization, turning to powder, etc.) and including various species of animals and plants (such as Nesting—birds’ nests made of valuable ores, Poisoning—the production of vials of emerald-colored poison from the extract of Toxicodendron diversilobum, and Layering—drawings made by animals walking over cardboard set up near watering holes). In the mid-1980s, in a rented warehouse on the outskirts of town, he began making detailed models and mock-ups of his hometown of Lafayette Hills, along with dolls depicting its residents.

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“Mirage, In Order of Appearance” film premiere;

introduction to the film performed by Jaśmina Polak;

exhibition of small objects placed on the floor;

premiere of the record “Walking on the Spiral Jetty”;

at Cricoteka, Kraków, 14th of March 2015

fot. Studio FilmLove

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"Mirage, In Order of Appearance" film screening event will be accompanied by Łukasz Jastrubczak's album "Walking on the Spiral Jetty" (audio recording made without windshield on 6th of August 2014) premiere.

Album will be released under Altanova Press label.

photo by Małgorzata Mazur

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