*** September 19, 2006 ***
Sign
a protest list set up at Spam magazine!
>>> Add your signature to the protest
list!: I
hereby declare, that I will never accept an invitation to the Castle
of Imagination from anybody else, than Wladyslaw Kazmierczak and I appeal
to other artists to do the same.
>>> See
who signed the list here
***
Darek Fodczuk writes to Zbigniew Warpechowski
again:
As you know, more than a week ago I addressed some very important questions
concerning the Castle of Imagination to you. The only reaction I received
was sending my letters back with no comments. Taking into consideration
your long silence, I take this gesture as cutting the discussion off.
Maybe I shouldn’t have written to you, but I would like to be
sure, that I got it right. I also know, that you don’t reply to
the letters of other people.
I let myself add the following questions to what I had already asked:
Do you think, that I don’t deserve answering my questions? What
should I do to deserve your attention? Do you think, that with one,
not too refined gesture, you can dispose of what’s important for
someone?
I ask you for your help. Please, tell me, how to address you, not to
meet with a wall of ignorance and arrogance? Please, help me, I’ll
do everything; I will apologize, I will change my questions, I’ll
call you… I’ll do whatever, not to harm your feelings.
Have I missed something? Is there any trace of your good will, that
I haven’t noticed?
Is in poetic reality what you do means: “Screw you, it’s
none of your business”?
With respect,
Dariusz Fodczuk
>>> Text
in Polish
***
Zbigniew Warpechowski finally speaks up
and send a reply to Dariusz Fodczuk:
It makes me think, why you write your open letters, not knowing the
truth or details. Why do you organize a smear campaign for Kazmierczak’s
sake?
Nobody asked me why I have never wanted to take part in the fucking
Castle. I have always cut myself off it, and so I do now. I simply don’t
give a shit about it. You can continue playing around. I will not answer
any other open or private letters.
>>> Text
in Polish
***
Dariusz Fodczuk comments:
At last, the MAESTRO spoke up. He says that there’s a truth that
I don’t know and details that place him above morality. It’s
none or our (my) business and he cut himself off the castle to the point
that he took it over. And that’s about it when it comes to explaining
his point of view.
The MAESTRO won’t say anything else.
AMEN
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Tomasz Kosciuczuk to the Gallery:
I would like to ask you to remove my e-mail address and other data that
you may have from the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art’s database.
I don’t wish to receive any correspondance or invitations from
you. Tomasz Kosciuczuk.
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Lukasz Guzek wrote in Spam magazine:
We can suspect that together with the director of the
Gallery in Slupsk, Zbigniew Warpechowski plans to overtake the copyright
to the words such as: „performance” or art” (it’s
what he has always dreamt of). If someone doesn’t stop this insanity,
we’ll all be in trouble.
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Adva Drori (Tel-Aviv) wrote:
Dear art community & friends.
I'd like to support the letter of BBB Johannes Deimling from the 17th.9,
which asks the invited artists to follow Julian Blaine's way and not
take part in the festival like it is now. the face of the performance
world is up to us, the artists. We create our society, our place of
action. If we let such dirty things happen it's like scoring a goal
against ourselves, it's like polluting our own environment. I've participated
twice at the Castle of Imagination Festival, the last time was at the
beginning of this month at Broellin & Szczecin. I feel that those
festivals which Wladyslaw Kazmierczak curates & organize in his
own special way have great deal of importance to society & to the
art world. It enables the invited artists to create their art piece
in a way which provides all the necessary ingredients an art piece should
contain. that is the direct dialogue with the place & people combined
with the international political and artistic dialogue. It requires
a lot of courage & great belief to go on with something so precious
& delicate for so many years. As I wrote before I think this is
a great contribution to society as to the artists themselves. Lets keep
up this spirit of giving and not let Ego, self-centeredness, force games
or humiliation of one another get inside ourselves. Sincerely yours
Adva Drori.
***
Wojciech Kowalczyk, performance artist
wrote:
I’m afraid to think, what will happen, if it crosses Kazmierczak’s
mind to invite the artists from Ireland, Poland and Scotland for the
next Irish-Polish-Scottish Seminar “Irish Days”, that used
to take place in the Gallery in Ustka and whose curator was Kazmierczak.
They will probably denounce him to the district attorney that Kazmierczak
steals the artists to whom the Gallery owns a copyright. Or maybe there
will appear someone who will announce that now he, the new one, will
give the “real” Irish Days” to the world. I’m
afraid to think, what will happen if it crosses Kazmierczak’s
mind to reactivate his festival “Performance Polski”. I
can see how the next “father” of this undertaking stands
in line. I’m afraid to think, what would have happened if Kazmierczak
committed a sin of omission and as a Director and as an Artist he wouldn’t
make his ideas work, through not organizing of the Castle of Imagination,
Irish Days or Performance Polski. This time the letter to the district
attorney would be: he had ideas, but he kept them to himself. But for
now, one smears their fingers writing false reports to the authorities.
In spite of that, I still believe that those, who maybe wanted, but
were not able to, were going to, but didn’t have a chance will
come to their senses. They saw and they envied, and as it turned out,
it was all the way to the hatred. (…)
Ms. Edyta Krol could have equally state that the Gallery owns the copyright
to Kazmierczak’s suit and order him (through the district attorney)
to give the suit back to the new curator. Thus his suit is his signature
and so is the Castle.
At school I give a fail to a student who cheats and I justify: the work
is not independent, deprived of one’s own thought, lack of intellectual
effort and invention.
Wojciech Kowalczyk
>>>Text
in Polish
*** September 20, 2006 ***
Dariusz Fodczuk to Adina Bar-on:
Dear Adina,
Perhaps you know more about what he means [Warpechowski]. Maybe you
can explain what his point is, and what do you mean when you say "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD"
I just don’t know what his truth is, what are
those details that he mentioned and what is his attitude towards the
main problem. I'm afraid that, his will is to cover everything with
silence or, if not possible, to obstruct the castle with a curtain of
fog.
with respect
dariusz
***
Pawel Kwasniewski wrote:
The Castle should belong to the Teutonic Knights, the Imagination to
the artist, and the Castle of Imagination to Kazmierczak. And so is
the truth. Even if the Supreme Court decided, that the name belongs
to someone else, then mere decency, morality and good taste tell, that
the Castle is Wladyslaw Kazmierczak’s event.
But the answer of Mr. Warpechowski to Dariusz Fodczuk’s letter
does not leave any doubts
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Next Pawel Kwasniewski added:
I read Grabowski’s text. If that’s true, what he writes
over there, that Mr. Warpechowski demands smaller festivals because
of financial reasons (I haven’t heard that myself, because for
a good few years I am not able to listen to intellectual hurricanes
of Mr. W.), then I suggest to go one step further:
Festivals should take place once every 5 years.
In a festival only one performance artist should participate.
From a simple calculation in MS Excel it turns out, that 30 artists
devour 500 zlotys (ca. $166) a year each at one festival, which is 15
000 zlotys ($5000). Times 5 years – that’s 75 000 zlotys
($25 000) per capita on an invited artist. And you feel like performing
for this kind of money! I think I am worth it. Although I won’t
hide, that this would be Kayah’s (a popular Polish singer’s)
honorarium for two of her concerts.
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Antoni Szoska (performance artist
from Krakow) wrote:
I signed the protest list and I also think that the Castle of Imagination
should belong to Wladyslaw Kazmierczak. It was his creative activity
supported by friends-artists that gathered interesting performance artists
every year. Thanks to his activity, a lot of Polish performance artists
were able to make their performances abroad, and create international
contacts. All of that was building an international prestige of one
of the most important festivals of performance art in Poland.
Antoni Szoska
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Beata Dudzic sends her support and
says she’s sorry that the Castle became an object of political
fight. She also says that it looks like a good idea to leave Poland
for Kazmierczak.
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Adina Bar-on wrote:
For my part, I confirm again that I will not be in Slupsk on October
7th unless "Castle of Imagination" is removed as title of
this event!
sincerely adina
***
Patrycja German (performance artist
from Germany) wrote:
Dear Mr. Warpechowski,
Taking into consideration your statement in a letter to Dariusz Fodczuk,
I cordially suggest changing the name of the festival that you have
stolen into: “THE RUINS OF IMAGINATION.”
Sincerely yours,
Patrycja German
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Wlad what the fuck is happn’n’?
John G. Boehme
*** September 21, 2006 ***
Next statement of Edyta Krol (on Baltic
Gallery's web site):
I inform that on October 7th – 15th, 2006 in Slupsk and in Ustka,
there’ll be an International Symposium of Poetic Realities, whose
curator is Zbigniew Warpechowski, unquestionable creator (sic!)
of Polish performance art. According to the idea of the curator and
mine, it was supposed to be a symposium. Symposium of Poetical Realities
was thought of as a completely new project and treated in a different
way than a festival. It is Zbigniew Warpechowski’s own project.
Only because of bureaucratic barriers, one used the name “Castle
of Imagination” with which we don’t want to deal any longer.
Edyta Król
>>>Text
in Polish
We are reminding: in her previous statements, Edyta
Krol wrote:...Baltic Art Gallery is the sole owner of the
copyright to the Castle of Imagination Festival and everybody who uses
its name does it illegally...
(September 12, 2006 >>> Text
in Polish)
and in the following one, in response to Wladyslaw Kazmierczak’s
open letter:
...I wrote my previous statement based on the agreement between
The Society of the Friends of Contemporary Art and the Baltic Gallery
of Contemporary Art signed on April 7th, 2006 which shifts the copyright
from the Society to the Gallery. (…) Mr. Kazmierczak did not organize
the Festival using his own money, but he was a curator of a Festival
organized by the Society. (…) Regarding the concept of the festival,
in the papers there’s only Grzegorz Borkowski’s name, who
received his fee for organizing and curating the Castle. (…) I
will not tolerate Mr. Kazmierczak’s ignoring the Copyright Bill.
Accepting such a behavior is accepting lawlessness which is equal to
anarchy. (…) I think Mr. Kazmierczak should use his energy to
prove the world, that he can exist without the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary
Art. (…).
Sincerely yours,
Edyta Krol, Director of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk,
tel. +48 59 8425674, fax. +48 59 8411949...
>>>Text
in Polish
Our comment: there’s a Polish
saying: only a cow doesn’t change her opinions...
***
Zbigniew Warpechowski sends his statement
around in strict synchronization with E. Krol's, this time he says that
she simply “mixed up the names”:
Recently the internet addresses (sic!) were full of
false news about me. I explain the following:
- The reason why Wladyslaw K. was removed from the office was financial
abuse not his political views. This is also the reason why he escaped
from Poland.
- His insulting behavior as well as abusing performance artists
and using them to his own purposes were the reason why I never wanted
to take part in his festivals that were named “Castle of Imagination”.
- New director of the Gallery, Ms. Edyta Krol entrusted the function
of the curator of a new artistic situation to me and I called it
the Symposium of Poetic Realities (by mixing up these names, she
made a mistake).
- My postulate is completely different rules of participation and
artists’ presentations.
- I am not going to be associated with the “Castle of Imagination”
or its creator.
Zbigniew Wapechowski
Our comment: Mr. Warpechowski! The
word is: I’m sorry!
>>>Text
in Polish
*** September 23, 2006 ***
Lukasz Guzek’s comment about
the new statements at Spam magazine:
The artists overcame the bureaucrats of art.
The Gallery in Slupsk and Zbigniew Warpechowski in their simultaneous
statements admitted, that the Castle of Imagination is Wladyslaw Kazmierczak’s
event. The statements are very emotional and with hateful overtones.
It would have been better if instead of “I do not want to have
anything in common” or “I do not want to be associated”
they had written at least on the website, where previously they had
threatened the artists with the legal consequences for using the name:
the GALLERY DOES NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE NAME: “CASTLE OF
IMAGINATION” AND ADMITS THAT WLADYSLAW KAZMIERCZAK HAS THE RIGHT
TO ORGANIZE THE FESTIVAL UNDER THAT NAME. The artists’ solidarity
against the techno-structure, as K. Piotrowski calls it, may be effective
The exhibitions and festivals belong mainly to the artists. Warpechowski
will be associated with Kazmierczak even if he does not want that, as
he goes to Slupsk to organize an event, and the place left by Kazmierczak
is still warm.
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Dariusz Fodczuk's response to Zbigniew
Warpechowski (after his last statement):
Dear Mr. Zbigniew,
The Castle has been saved! We’ve won and we are very happy about
it. On this occasion I would like to say I’m sorry for everything
that happened because of my letters.
With great joy I admit, that I was wrong about your intentions. I would
like to say “I’m sorry” to everyone, who, reading
my correspondence, could have thought that Mr. Zbigniew Warpechowski
is on the side of techno-structure, that he was aiming a blow at the
Castle and that he expressed disdain to the public and other friends-artists.
Friends! Colleagues – artists! Those of us who thought that out
of hatred and the desire of revenge someone wanted to turn the “Castle”
into something with no imagination, were wrong.
Mr. Zbigniew, you were on our side all this time, remaining silent and
worried about it!
In my infatuation I thought, that you were plotting something, while
you saved the Castle.
Why don’t you join us and celebrate with us.
We thank you so much!
Kazmierczak is a thief!
Balcerowicz has to leave!
Sincerely yours,
Dariusz Foczuk
>>>Text
in Polish
***
Kazimir Glaz wrote:
Don’t give up!
*** September 26, 2006 ***
Anne Seagrave (performance artist,
Dublin) wrote:
Dear All,
I am very upset about the situation concerning CASTLE OF IMAGINATION.
You know I have had a very long professional relationship with Wladyslaw
Kazmierczak, and I have 100 percent respect for him, his own performance
work and his curatorial practice. I support him as I know him to be
a very decent person, serious and committed. Please keep me informed
about what I may do to voice my opposition to the outrage that is taking
place.
Yours sincerely,
Anne Seagrave
***
Piotr Parda (artist, Boston) wrote:
The whole thing about the Castle of Imagination stinks
indeed. It may be some kind of a consolation, that even if someone is
able to borrow (take over or steal) the name of somebody’s undertaking,
no one is able to overtake its spirit. I used to listen to one of the
radio stations passionately. It was bought later by a huge corporation
that pushes trash. Although the radio station’s name stayed the
same, I take is as non-existent and I don’t listen to it anymore,
and the people who created the previous one packed their bags and created
something equally good, somewhere else, under a new name, but as everybody
knows, good things are like a magnet and they attract the people who
love the good stuff. I wish you lots of persistence.
Greetings.
Piotr
>>>Text
in Polish
*** September 27, 2006 ***
An important comment from Mikolaj Iwanski
(Brussels / Poznan / Slupsk), European Parliament intern:
I got to know about Wladyslaw Kazmierczak’s
problems at the end of January. I spend half of my short life in Slupsk
and I knew, that this town would never be able to say goodbye to him
respectfully. I have never had any doubt that this is a political problem.
I made lots of phone calls and I talked to the MPs from the Civic Platform
party (which has a majority in the Pomerania province assembly) to alarm
them. They (i.e. S. Nowak, R. Grupinski, M. Wisniewska, W. Dzikowski,
F. Kaczmarek – I used to work in his European Parliament office
at that time) sort of understood that this venue is worth saving, but
none of them were able to undertake any serious action. Again so called
liberals lost with their own ignorance and negligence.
The Gallery in Slupsk could have been saved. Even in
the spring it could have had a better director than E. Krol. The fuss
about the Castle of Imagination could have been avoided. And I would
always have that against those people. There will not be a good gallery
in Slupsk. Not after what we’ve seen. Small ambitions, small people.
Lots of noise. Some kind of an incriminating letter to the district
attorney – a poor substitute for a special commission. Slupsk
watches the world with its bloodshot eyes of a dwarf. All these struggles
and hurt ambitions of a man, who “left the case to be judged by
the authorities who “asked” Kazmierczak to resign from his
office and to the district attorney, who has been trying to interrogate
him for couple of months with no effect” – is mere hypocrisy,
that tries to pretend a virtue.
Greetings,
Mikolaj Iwanski
>>>Text
in Polish
*** September 29 - 30, 2006 ***
Omar Ghayatt (Cairo, Egypt) wrote:
Dear Polish artists
I ask you to make some action to save (the castle of imagination) This
festival was my first step to develop my artistic career. I spent only
10 days in the 13th year of the festival but I felt as if I had 10 years
experience there. I had learned from Wladyslaw Kazmierczak a great lesson,
when I had seen him cleaning the floor of the gallery after some performances.
Why we leave him alone ??????
I wish if I was in Poland to help him,
That is more than a festival ,,,,,
Please save it
Omar Ghayatt
An Egyptian performance artist
***
Art Interventions got hold of the new list
of “the fake Castle-Symposium” participants: Adina
Bar-on (Izreal), Ewa Zarzycka (Poland) and
Oskar Dawicki (Poland). Hence our Black List of performance
art is being filled with 1 new name (Oskar Dawicki). Congratulations!
Original information in Polish on Baltic Gallery's web
site: http://www.baltic-gallery.art.pl/sympozjum.html
***
Meantime the Baltic Gallery continues to use stolen
name of the festival in their ads:
>>>Polish
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