Coordinated by Maciej Mielecki, the video project aims to relive the defeat of the Third Reich through two re-enactments based on the final battles of the Second World War in April and May 1945.
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Project trailer by Jacek Taszakowski
Staged by members of re-enactment groups from Poland in public spaces in Berlin and Warsaw, the re-enactments raise questions about the mechanisms of constructing the narrations of national identity, politics and reworking history. Filmed documentation of the re-enactments will be on view in the Deutschlandhaus venue of the 7th Berlin Biennale and also at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.
The resulting video works are on show at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle between the 29th of June - 14 August 2012.
Concept and realization: Maciej Mielecki, Warsaw
Re-enactment groups: Walhalla Inscenizacje Historyczne, GHR Viking, GHR Pionier, Trzygłów Pokazy Historyczne
Coordination: Kaja Pawełek, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Organiser: Fundacja Sztuka i Współczesność /Art and Present Time Foundation, Warsaw
Filming schedule:
Berlin: Spreepark
April 29, 2012, from 2:00 pm
Warsaw: Park in front of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle
May 13, 2012, from 2:00 pm
For more information, see: csw.art.pl