Love story of Lake Michigan and Baltic Sea in the times of Capitalocene
realized by Łukasz Jastrubczak, Krzysztof Kaczmarek and Justyna Wąsik
Polish
Soundtrack project - Sound walks juxtaposing American and Polish
contexts. Affiliated with PRLS studies at UIC Chicago
https://www.instagram.com/polishsoundtrack/
broadcasted OCT 13th 2023 at Ohio Street Beach in Chicago
in order of appearance
Irena
Santor "Morze" feat. Chief Keef
Thomas Ankersmit
excerpt from "Hangar Performance"
Cinderella reading
excerpts from Þóra Pétursdóttir "Climate change? Archaeology and
Anthropocene" and W.G. Sebald "After Nature"
DUCH "Alfonsina y el
mar"
William S. Burroughs
"The Cut Ups"
DUCH "Morze" with
excerpt from Witold Gombrowicz's "Cosmos"
excerpts from William
S. Burroughs "Apocalypse", Eugeniusz Rudnik compositions and English
Language course
Interview with
Violetta Villas feat. Bob Ross
Violetta Villas
"Szczęście" (Happiness)
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Polish
Soundtrack. The Last Chance
curators: Justyna
Wąsik & Beate Geissler
with Katarzyna
Majchrowicz-Wolny
and support of Michał
Paweł Markowski
Oct.
10-14 at UIC, by Lake Michigan & North Branch of the Chicago
River
https://www.instagram.com/polishsoundtrack/
Day
1 (Tue, Oct. 10)
12-3pm Plant Research
Laboratory, 1020 S. Union St.
Experimental workshop on alternative ways of
knowledge
sharing, interacting with the environment, and collectively acting
by Łukasz
Jastrubczak from CentrumCentrum
+Wild Weeds Picnic by Ewa Polska
+ Premiere of It Belong to
The Cucumbers - a book co-authored by students of
POL150 (Intro to Polish Cinema, 23’)
+ Art Garden Tour by Katelyn Patton
3-5:30 Screening Room
3226 AEH:
Improvisational
Realism: open class of ATMOSPHERICS - Doc
Media / Art of the Real by Deborah
Stratman
5:45-7:30 Screening Room 3226 AEH
Film screenings
of:
HOPIUM ECONOMY, A
trilogy, 2017-2021 Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann
“Pawel i Wawel” (dir.
Krzysztof Kaczmarek, co-written with Justyna Wąsik)
Day
2 (Wed, Oct. 11)
2-6 pm Institute
for the
Humanities, 1007 W Harrison St Suite 153
“Sink
or Swim. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene” -
cross-disciplinary conference devoted to new research, educational
and activist practices in the age of the Anthropocene.
2-4pm PANEL 1
Keynote: Michał
Paweł
Markowski - “On Walking”
Presentation + discussions:
Janek Sowa (on zoom) -‘Walking with a Sense of
Purpose. Crisis, Utopia and Imagination in the Contemporary World’
(intervention)
Julia
Fiedorczuk
(on zoom) - "How to be an earthling: thoughts on ecopoetics" (a poet's talk)
Response
by: Łukasz
Jastrubczak
4:15-6pm PANEL 2
Presentations
+ discussions by:
Ralph
Cintrón - 'unknowing
knowing' (cross examinations)
Katarzyna Majchrowicz-Wolny "The Ocean of Potential. On the Relationship
with Unknowable in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
Aishath
Huda (‘Water as Method’ - artist talk)
Response
by: Julia
Vaingurt
7-11 pm Boring Drug
concert & DJ set by Vesolo
(The Chopin
Theatre, 1543 W
Division St)
Day
3 (Th, Oct. 12)
Henry Hall
106, 935 W
Harrison St
12-1:30
pm Art presentation & workshop on DIY survival strategies in
the Anthropocene
& late capitalist art world by Janek Simon
1:30-2:55
pm Fieldwork
and Creativity in Anthropocene
Landscapes
with
videos from Yalburt Yaylasi Landscape Research Project (2010-2018)
Day
4 (Fr, Oct. 13)
Walking the Walk
Caffe Oliva at Ohio Street Beach, 600 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611
But we invite you for
Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance
at 5 pm
that will be broadcasted in Caffe Oliva at
Ohio Street Beach, under beach umbrellas
5-5:45 pm Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance Walk
Caffe
Oliva at Ohio Street Beach, 600 N
Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611
by Łukasz Jastrubczak, Krzysztof Kaczmarek & Justyna Wąsik
Day
5 (Sat, Oct.14)
Walks on the Wild Side
Wild
Mile Urban Rivers, Meeting point @
Urban Rivers
1440 N
Kingsbury St. Ste 005,
Chicago, IL 60642
11am Walk About It by the Anthropocene Lab, Deep Time
Chicago & Urban
Rivers
+
Herbal
Walk by Ewa Polska
Polish
Soundtrack. The Last Chance is co-sponsored by
the Hejna Fund, Department of Polish, Russian and Lithuanian Studies,
the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics;
The Anthropocene Lab, and the Institute for the Humanities, UIC.
The project is also supported by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District Commissioner - Daniel Pogorzelski.