29 of September (Thursday)
7 PM / Hall 90B

Performance / concert :
Hiwa K With Jim White Once Upon A Time In The West


... With Jim White Once Upon A Time In The West, is a project by Hiwa K, which is the result of long-standing friendship and collaboration with former American soldier Jim White, and now janitor in the German Academy of Fine Arts, where the artist studied. The ten-minute performance refers to the final duel scene in Sergio Leone’s Sphagetti Western, "Once Upon A Time In The West". The project with the participation of musicians and vocalists from Gdansk, recreates the famous scene with music by Ennio Morricone. Work dealing with the issues of redistribution of dominant culture, issues of representation and competence. The project is thematically linked to the exhibition of Estrangement.


Guitar: Jim White
Harmonica: Hiwa K
Crew: Karol Szewczyk - bass guitar, Rafał Ringlewski - trumpet, Adam Skrzypkowski - trumpet, Tomasz Niedziela - trombone, Krzysztof Greń - drums, Ania Szuchniewicz - vocal, Beata Szalkowska - vocal, Zuzanna Ostrowska - vocal, Emilia Laskowska - violin, Małgorzata Bury - violin.
Producer: Natalia Grzebała


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Opening party:
May 28, 2011 7pm

Exhibition on view
29 May - 30 September 2011
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 07:00 PM
artistic director: Aneta Szylak

Estrangement: At the very core of the project there is the question of the circulation of cultural forms. The idea of considering the notion in this way arises at the intersection of the poetics of Shklovsky—a representative of Russian formalism—and the Arabic term taqseem, which means both musical improvisation and mathematical division. Found forms and ’everydayness’ are points of entry into the way the project takes shape and disintegrates. “Estrangement” works with various elements that do not seem to be connected then places them under observation and sometimes sets them to work.

Artists: Sherko Abbas, Shirwan Can & Horen Gharib, Shirwan Fatih, Gailan Abdullah Ismail, Maryam Jafri, Hiwa K, Poshiya Kakil, Hüseyin Karakaya, Anton Kats, Reben Majeed, Rozhgar Mahmud Mustafa, Mattias Olofsson, Sener Ozmen, Diary Muhammad Osman, Joanna Rajkowska, Avan Sidiq, Cengiz Tekin and Knutte Wester.

Estrangement is curated by Aneta Szylak and Hiwa K.
The exhibition reader is edited by Francesca Recchia.