4/30/2006
4/28/2006
Gazeta Wyborcza
Otwarcie wystawy "Warsaw, Texas"
Łukasz Kamiński
W galerii lokal_30 otwarto wystawę "Warsaw, Texas" dwóch młodych artystów z Austrii
Exhibition at lokal_30, Warszawa
Installation view, room 2
days 53/54
Thursday. Worked until 6pm, the opening was scheduled for 7pm - always last minute.. Got a little pissed at the uninvolved and disorganized staff from the gallery space who didn't open the doors in time for the opening. Anyways.. The whole thing is good, done, we're happy - and it is to be seen April 27 until May 12 at lokal_30, foksal street 17b/30 (backhouse 2nd floor), Warszawa, opening hours are Wednesday to Friday 4pm-7pm.
In the evening party next door from the gallery organized by R Serek of Comme des Garcons store. Julien then got lost somewhere in the city together with helping hand Kobatsch and found the way back to the castle early in the morning where Nick had just arrived from some fantastic night voyage. A few hours of sleep, then back to lokal_30 for the so-called brunch with the artists --- Brunch with the artists ! --- last time we did that on a day after an opening.
In the evening party next door from the gallery organized by R Serek of Comme des Garcons store. Julien then got lost somewhere in the city together with helping hand Kobatsch and found the way back to the castle early in the morning where Nick had just arrived from some fantastic night voyage. A few hours of sleep, then back to lokal_30 for the so-called brunch with the artists --- Brunch with the artists ! --- last time we did that on a day after an opening.
Installation view, room 1+2
room 3
4/26/2006
The week before the show
days 43/44
Yesterday we had the first more or less intense prepare-the-exhibition-now working day, after the visit at Oris' place. We got some meal at the czech restaurtant in the afternoon (greasy french fries vs. alcoohol). Nick started more or less seriously with drawing, Julien was continuing previously started video work, bedtime was at 7am today. After 2 hours of sleep we met Marianna for serious talks about painting walls in the exhibition space as well as some technical questions about tools... and hooray: the Warsaw maps finally arrived! After some meal in the castle restaurtant Nick got really wasted and slept until 9pm while Julien got pissed about Photoshop and tried to fix something for the printing company... unfortunately Photoshop was in polish. Bad luck. We overslept and could just buy some stuff in the 24h-shop around the corner. Now, back in studio, trying to continue. Art is difficult. Sometimes. Video sucks. Always.
Yesterday we had the first more or less intense prepare-the-exhibition-now working day, after the visit at Oris' place. We got some meal at the czech restaurtant in the afternoon (greasy french fries vs. alcoohol). Nick started more or less seriously with drawing, Julien was continuing previously started video work, bedtime was at 7am today. After 2 hours of sleep we met Marianna for serious talks about painting walls in the exhibition space as well as some technical questions about tools... and hooray: the Warsaw maps finally arrived! After some meal in the castle restaurtant Nick got really wasted and slept until 9pm while Julien got pissed about Photoshop and tried to fix something for the printing company... unfortunately Photoshop was in polish. Bad luck. We overslept and could just buy some stuff in the 24h-shop around the corner. Now, back in studio, trying to continue. Art is difficult. Sometimes. Video sucks. Always.
days 45/46/47/48/49
Basically have been working every night, late, lots of organistation in daytime, people to meet, some partys... Wednesday - work. In the evening diner with Jacek at Apetyt, then Pustki concert at CDQ. Thursday - fancy Peroni party (not pierogie): we got the invitation from Alicija, went there to get some free food'n'booze and didn't grab one of those give-away bags with a free i-Pod shuffle in it. How stupid can you be ?
Friday we met Marianna and Łukasz Kaminski for a ride with the GAZ Jeep. Drove over to Praga to meet Pawel from Vavamuffin who showed us "his" favourite Warsaw district. At night some Fashion Show sponsored by Lexus. Very weird and fancy. Free food and booze again. Big thing this time: Helena Christensen walked the catwalk. The next morning was quite hard. Nick had a headache and slept through the day. Work then. Until now. Still work. We're running out of time it seems. But, slowly, the whole thing takes form. Nick did some nice drawings. The video progresses slowly.
Friday we met Marianna and Łukasz Kaminski for a ride with the GAZ Jeep. Drove over to Praga to meet Pawel from Vavamuffin who showed us "his" favourite Warsaw district. At night some Fashion Show sponsored by Lexus. Very weird and fancy. Free food and booze again. Big thing this time: Helena Christensen walked the catwalk. The next morning was quite hard. Nick had a headache and slept through the day. Work then. Until now. Still work. We're running out of time it seems. But, slowly, the whole thing takes form. Nick did some nice drawings. The video progresses slowly.
days 50/51/52
Preparations for the exhibition. We wanted to start the installation at lokal_30 on Sunday, postponed that to Monday and finally really started on Tuesday. Got visit from Vienna: Pete & Christine. And then hard worker Laszlo Kobatsch arrived Wednesday to help us set up the exhibition while curator Marianna was almost freaking out at the sight of the empty space. Nick had to cancel the Liars concert. Almost no sleep and a Vodka shot before going to bed.4/25/2006
Gazeta Wyborcza
Austriacy kręcą w Warszawie film drogi
Łukasz Kamiński
Nakręcić film drogi w mieście to jak nakręcić film o Titanicu na pustyni. A jednak. Dwóch austriackich artystów zrealizowało projekt "Warsaw, Texas". Wernisaż w czwartek 27 kwietnia w galerii lokal_30
4/16/2006
Easter week-end in Warsaw
day 40
Slept. Video. The castle was emptied out when we went out to the art supply store. It's the Easter week-end. Evening @ Mitch's rehearsal space. Little party there with a few musicians jamming. Nice place in a rundown factory building. After that worked some more 'till 4am. Sleep.
days 41/42
days 41/42
Everything's is closed, streets are empty. Met Artur8 and DJ Joakim who came straight from Paris to play in a deserted Club 1955 where about one girl danced - or two. When the party was over the club owner took us and the whole dj crew to his other club, a pimp-style after-hour bar with some creepy audience moving enthusiastically to dancy house tunes. Free vodka for the guests. An empty second dancefloor with dj Martin Shaft on some trancetec-kinda-boom-boom-sound. Not too bad though. The crowd on the house floor was either on speed or just very horny. Left that place with an amazing sunset on our walk back to the castle. Wasted. Long sleep. Empty sunday afternoon then. A little work, some cooking. Took a cab to Marcin's place in the evening. Nice and comfortable talk about music, Warsaw, Poland and the rest of the world. Two bottles of vodka - Nick is still sleeping, Julien tries to recover. Happy Easter.
4/13/2006
Europa is better than Supersam
Day upon day passes by in Warsaw. We actually feel like not having had enough time at all to see and find out about all the places and stories behind this city we have been driving through the last 40 days .....but we already think of coming back. Work in the studio - video editing - which makes us hate this medium much more. Today Nick started making nitrofrottages in the studio, got a dizzy head by sniffing nitro while Julien worked on video ...afternoon: walking to our new discovered Europa mini store that offers selfmade pierogis and is much better than the other supermarket, Supersam, we went to before ...just met Alicija for some drink in the architecture faculty coffee place whatever. Tired now. Sleep, there is a bunch of work waiting for us the next days. Fasten your seatbelts, it's getting dangerous now...
4/12/2006
Polish workers in yellow suits
days 36/37/38
For 3 days in a row workers in yellowish suits have been invading the studio space, handling with tons of red cables, speaking polish to each other (which we don't understand) and basically pissing us off with drilling machines and stuff as we tried to get some work done while they (obviously) tried to get their work done. Fair enough.
As we have to, we edited and viewed a lot of video footage until late at night and figured out that there was too much of it still to be done. --> Problem. We should meet some more people but time flies in Warsaw. It's getting tight - and we enjoy that.
Easter is coming which seems to bring all polish people into a state of great excitement. Streets are crowded. Nick sleeps. Julien is annoyed - in 10 days he couldn't find a place where to get a non oil-based generic black paint marker Edding 750 or similar.
As we have to, we edited and viewed a lot of video footage until late at night and figured out that there was too much of it still to be done. --> Problem. We should meet some more people but time flies in Warsaw. It's getting tight - and we enjoy that.
Easter is coming which seems to bring all polish people into a state of great excitement. Streets are crowded. Nick sleeps. Julien is annoyed - in 10 days he couldn't find a place where to get a non oil-based generic black paint marker Edding 750 or similar.
4/09/2006
Offroading
days 34/35
Woke up early on Saturday to go on an offroading trip with Michał. We met him and his boys, everybody in camouflage suits, to take a ride. He invited two guys that participated in the Camel Trophy in the brazil rain forest to ride with us. Vitek was also in the pit, driving his Landrover Defender from the 70s. We got walkie talkies, like on a navigation trip. Bad boys and their mud toys. Exactly that's what it was like. Unfortunately the river was too high, so we just had a very small path for offroading action. For us it was quite fun, for the guys that was peanuts... Michals kids drove with us in the GAZ. ...the afternoon was sleepy ...at night, new club M25 in Ulica Minska in Praga... Berlin styled old factory club. There was an italian dj from Gigolo Berlin, was ok, not too crowded actually... got home at 6am with the night bus ...Sunday was again a bit lame, eating in a czech-polish restaurant. Nick got 1l of beer and 2 schnaps with schnitzel and french fries. Julien had some cheese stuff, apple juice and also 2 schnaps. Tired after that. Sleep. And work until 5am.
Woke up early on Saturday to go on an offroading trip with Michał. We met him and his boys, everybody in camouflage suits, to take a ride. He invited two guys that participated in the Camel Trophy in the brazil rain forest to ride with us. Vitek was also in the pit, driving his Landrover Defender from the 70s. We got walkie talkies, like on a navigation trip. Bad boys and their mud toys. Exactly that's what it was like. Unfortunately the river was too high, so we just had a very small path for offroading action. For us it was quite fun, for the guys that was peanuts... Michals kids drove with us in the GAZ. ...the afternoon was sleepy ...at night, new club M25 in Ulica Minska in Praga... Berlin styled old factory club. There was an italian dj from Gigolo Berlin, was ok, not too crowded actually... got home at 6am with the night bus ...Sunday was again a bit lame, eating in a czech-polish restaurant. Nick got 1l of beer and 2 schnaps with schnitzel and french fries. Julien had some cheese stuff, apple juice and also 2 schnaps. Tired after that. Sleep. And work until 5am.
4/07/2006
Warsaw you're the best!
day 33
Friday. Can't actually remember much about what happened in daytime. The evening started before we could actually start it ourselves, with an overcrowded opening of some pink in pink exhibition at the CSW. A lot of high-tuned chicks - in pink of course. After that concert of this crazy sylesian Pavarotti-Syntetik guy @ Aurora. Everybody was there, we were late, so no way to get through to the stage. Went over to the club next door where facepainted guys Miguel and the Living Dead rocked the punk-lovers crowd. Wooow ! Location change after having listened to Niski's weird storys about Pighead's singer Blitz who apparently once got a 40-year-old Ma' to rollerblade on stage with a huge candle stuck up her ass. Landed at some location right next to the Sheraton Hotel for a Davidoff sponsored house party. Tuning and drinks for free. The climax came with the DJ shouting out loud to his crowd: "WARSAW YOU'RE THE BEST!"
Unfortunately, we didn't tape that. But yes, Warsaw rocks. Just like Texas I guess.
Friday. Can't actually remember much about what happened in daytime. The evening started before we could actually start it ourselves, with an overcrowded opening of some pink in pink exhibition at the CSW. A lot of high-tuned chicks - in pink of course. After that concert of this crazy sylesian Pavarotti-Syntetik guy @ Aurora. Everybody was there, we were late, so no way to get through to the stage. Went over to the club next door where facepainted guys Miguel and the Living Dead rocked the punk-lovers crowd. Wooow ! Location change after having listened to Niski's weird storys about Pighead's singer Blitz who apparently once got a 40-year-old Ma' to rollerblade on stage with a huge candle stuck up her ass. Landed at some location right next to the Sheraton Hotel for a Davidoff sponsored house party. Tuning and drinks for free. The climax came with the DJ shouting out loud to his crowd: "WARSAW YOU'RE THE BEST!"
Unfortunately, we didn't tape that. But yes, Warsaw rocks. Just like Texas I guess.
4/06/2006
Patryk Zakrocki in Ursynow
day 30/31/32
We visited Patryk, a former member of Mitch & Mitch, a.k.a. Crazy Mitch and now somehow solo musician and composer in his appartment in Ursynow, a suburban zone in southern Warsaw. We hung out at his place and listened to his music. Very nice talk about music in general and improvisation scenes in Warsaw. Afterwards we got really tired, tried to watch Two Lane Blacktop, but already slept away... today it was kind of an off-day as far as Julien got some flue invaders in his body and Nick had an appointment for a model agency... some supermarket shopping... hang out at Marianna's, introducing her to our exhibition, meeting photographer Szymon Roginski at the cafe, and again killing time in the studio. Kind of tired. The Texas flag has arrived. No more news so far, just tons of work to do. Tomorrow evening will be a busy with shows and some artyfarty party in the evening we're looking forward to...
We visited Patryk, a former member of Mitch & Mitch, a.k.a. Crazy Mitch and now somehow solo musician and composer in his appartment in Ursynow, a suburban zone in southern Warsaw. We hung out at his place and listened to his music. Very nice talk about music in general and improvisation scenes in Warsaw. Afterwards we got really tired, tried to watch Two Lane Blacktop, but already slept away... today it was kind of an off-day as far as Julien got some flue invaders in his body and Nick had an appointment for a model agency... some supermarket shopping... hang out at Marianna's, introducing her to our exhibition, meeting photographer Szymon Roginski at the cafe, and again killing time in the studio. Kind of tired. The Texas flag has arrived. No more news so far, just tons of work to do. Tomorrow evening will be a busy with shows and some artyfarty party in the evening we're looking forward to...
4/03/2006
Hanging out with Rob Mazurek
day 29
Got nothing really managed the whole day... just some envelopes... met Magda who is doing her internship at CSW and helping Josée and the new resident who finally arrived yesterday evening... Tim Sullivan, video artist from San Francisco was visiting us with Karolina... afterwards we went to Sao Paolo Underground featuring star trumpetist Rob Mazurek. Afterwards we had a small party at Marianna's place with Mazurek and the guys from Sao Paolo Underground as well as Mikrokolektyw from Wroclaw. And finally we also met Dawid from Wroclaw who had connected us to Jacek and Mitch before taking off to the "far east".
Got nothing really managed the whole day... just some envelopes... met Magda who is doing her internship at CSW and helping Josée and the new resident who finally arrived yesterday evening... Tim Sullivan, video artist from San Francisco was visiting us with Karolina... afterwards we went to Sao Paolo Underground featuring star trumpetist Rob Mazurek. Afterwards we had a small party at Marianna's place with Mazurek and the guys from Sao Paolo Underground as well as Mikrokolektyw from Wroclaw. And finally we also met Dawid from Wroclaw who had connected us to Jacek and Mitch before taking off to the "far east".
4/02/2006
Weekend with Alicija
days 26/27/28
Friday. Went to OBI with the GAZ to buy some tools. Took us like the whole day. In the evening met Alicija who showed us quite some clubs and bars in the city center, Utopia, Egoiste, and others. A weird clubbing night that ended early in the morning in this little place where you get food 24h/24h. The barman was doing some awesome singing performance with the shower of the tab (check our video section for that!).
Saturday, opening at Raster Gallery. Nice place with lots of smoke, a little artyfarty. Later we went to this photomagazine presentation at Miedzy Nami where we met Alicija and Ewa with whom we took a cab to an awesome private party of people of the A4 magazine. The cab driver got pissed after Julien had made some inappropriate remark about the pope and drove like a 100km/h in the middle of the city. The party was wild - people dancing to Madonna playing on repeat and getting really wasted on Wodka. A passage in two more clubs, Egoiste (oh my!) and Diuna. Had some pierogies then, just before going to bed.
On Sunday we went on a trip with Alicija. Met some guys on the road who were driving another GAZ Jeep. Then went to the west outskirts to shot some footage on the field.
Friday. Went to OBI with the GAZ to buy some tools. Took us like the whole day. In the evening met Alicija who showed us quite some clubs and bars in the city center, Utopia, Egoiste, and others. A weird clubbing night that ended early in the morning in this little place where you get food 24h/24h. The barman was doing some awesome singing performance with the shower of the tab (check our video section for that!).
Saturday, opening at Raster Gallery. Nice place with lots of smoke, a little artyfarty. Later we went to this photomagazine presentation at Miedzy Nami where we met Alicija and Ewa with whom we took a cab to an awesome private party of people of the A4 magazine. The cab driver got pissed after Julien had made some inappropriate remark about the pope and drove like a 100km/h in the middle of the city. The party was wild - people dancing to Madonna playing on repeat and getting really wasted on Wodka. A passage in two more clubs, Egoiste (oh my!) and Diuna. Had some pierogies then, just before going to bed.
On Sunday we went on a trip with Alicija. Met some guys on the road who were driving another GAZ Jeep. Then went to the west outskirts to shot some footage on the field.
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