SAD WON’T BUILD A BETTER WORLD at the Academic Design Centre is a drag-queen exhibition by renowned visual artist Agata Zbylut, as well as an interactive performance and a workshop by young-generation artist and designer Pawe\u0142 Ka\u017amierowski.<\/p>\n\n
The exhibition directly references drag queen Kim Lee. Thus, the Academic Design Centre behind the event, an institution that merges art and design, implements interdisciplinary activities \u2013 including independent artists, also belonging to cultural minorities such as drag queens \u2013 and at the same time alludes to the history of female textile workers. In the so-called Scheibler empire \u2013 on whose grounds the ACD building is located today \u2013 provided not only hard labour but also social, medical and economic support, including housing, schools and kindergartens for children and young people. So some women in the late 19th century happened to have a choice. Those who chose to work were able to free themselves from objectification and their ascribed social roles in order to take up the struggle against intensifying class and identity differences. In this way, they became creators of their own microhistory, or rather herstory.<\/p>\n\n
Author*: Agata Zbylut, Anna Bielawska, Piotr Michalski, Natalia Sara Skorupa, Kamil Winnicki
Exhibition date<\/strong>: Works included in the exhibition:<\/p>\n\n Agata Zbylut<\/strong> (b. 1974) \u2013 Polish visual artist, academic and curator whose work focuses on feminist and existential issues as well as reflections on time and passing. She studied at the University of Zielona G\u00f3ra, where she obtained her diploma in the Drawing and Intermedia Studio, and then obtained her doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna\u0144 and her habilitation at the State Higher School of Television and Theatre in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. In her art, she often uses her own image to analyse social stereotypes about women. Zbylut was the curator of the Amfilada Gallery in Szczecin and has been president of the Zach\u0119ta Association for Contemporary Art since 2004, initiating such projects as the Young Art Festival \u2018Przeci\u0105g\u2019 and Trafostacja Sztuki. <\/p>\n\n Agata Zbylut, NAJPI\u0118KNIEJSZE WARSZAWIANKI TO PRZYJEZDNE. \u0141\u00d3D\u0179 2024, a research-like project, being a kind of local diagnosis of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. The title comes from a song by Irena Santor, and I’ve heard it many times from Charlotte’s Drag Queer. I don’t take it literally. Rather, for me, it is a symbol of the migration of people from smaller towns to larger ones. And while this migration may simply be associated with increased chances of success in life, for those who escape cis norms, it is the only chance to be fully themselves, to live among other rainbow people, not to hide with their uniqueness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n The educational programme of artist Agata Zbylut’s project, entitled SAD WON’T BUILD A BETTER WORLD, includes two workshops and an interactive performance by Pawe\u0142 Ka\u017amierowski, an artist and designer of the young generation. The theme of the performative action will be broadly defined fashion in the context of gender deconstruction. Ka\u017amierowski’s projects oscillate around the feminisation of male attributes. The elements of his fashion silhouettes are directly related to the body. The artist talks about the extent to which our bodies can be controlled and disciplined. Paul’s performance will present fashion silhouettes in the form of an out-of-the-box interactive show that aims to make the audience aware of how damaging stereotypical thinking about gender is. The theme of the workshop, however, will be the work of the female factory workers of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, the textile workers. The result will be designs for headscarves associated with textile workers, with embroidered words with feminist overtones.<\/p>\n\n 10th October 13.00 – 15.30, 16.00 – 18.30 Pawe\u0142 Ka\u017amierowski workshop<\/p>\n\n\n
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