The program of festival events
Lua Preta concert to open the festival, slideshows and a party at a new location: Biedermann Factory, the premiere of a film about Grzegorz Przyborek and a screening of a film about Nan Goldin, a performative book action with Iacopo Pasqui and an experimental exhibition in the Film Hall – we have announced the program of festival events.
You can already see the full roster of events of the 10 festival days in the “Plan a visit” tab.
As every year, the events include a workshop and educational part organized together with the University of Lodz. Registration is still open for workshops in the form of a hike along the Lodz River Riverscape. Revealing the River, which accompany the exhibition of the same title and which will be led by Tomasz Ferenc and Marek Domański. The University has also prepared workshops on the basics of photography, and people working in art and cultural institutions or galleries and units related to the organization of cultural life are invited to special workshops Social and envoiromental responsibility and visual activism which will be led by festival co-organizer Krzysztof Candrowicz. This is the last moment to sign up.
We boast a strong line-up for the evening part of the festival this year: the opening will feature, among others, Lua Preta, a project serving a mix of modern electronic music and African genres such as kuduro and afrohousea. The opening of the exhibition Area. Warhol and Basquiat through the lens of Volker Hinz will be honored with a DJ set by a creator and activist supporting the queer scene: DJ Avtomat. We have also invited DJs touring throughout Europe including Brutality Garden, BirDzie, Ohxala and performer Karma She.
This year’s discursive part includes a panel Three Decades of Transformation of Photography with Andrzej Rychlicki, Dominika Sadowska, Tomek Ferenc and Weronika Kobylinska, and a discussion Photography in Action with artists and activists Io Sivertsen and Julia Szablowska, among others, and Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, curator of three festival exhibitions. Participants will talk about their perspective on socially engaged photography.
Among the events you will also find photography field game for children, families and adult children and Luxography workshops for children aged 7-12 (registration required).
The film program includes All the beauty and the bloodshed – winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, a film dedicated to the photographic and activist work of Nan Goldin. In the second week of the festival, we will invite you to the premiere of a unique, impressionistic film KOAN. Spaces of Imagination by Grzegorz Przyborek, in which we get to know better the world of perception and artistic inspiration of this year’s protagonist of the solo exhibition at the Art Propaganda Center. Traditionally, we will also see a review of student etudes from the Film School, and the festival will close with a unique video essay created entirely from found footage: And the King Said: What a Fantastic Machine – asking questions about the nature of contemporary visual culture.
We suggest spending one of the festival days at the Film School. As part of the Expanded Photography project, a special exhibition that broadens the way we look at the medium of photography and goes beyond its boundaries will be waiting for you in the Film Hall. We will see generative, audiovisual installations and those related to generative artificial intelligence, live intermedia activities, concert visuals, as well as examples of generative granular editing. At the end of the event – a concert by Alicja Godyń, Jakub Kopiczak, Filip Gabriel Pudło, Monika Bubniak and Przemek Książek (Lesmian Project).
Still not enough? Visit www.fotofestiwal.com/2023/en/plan-visit/.
ph. Volker Hinz, Area, 1985
