Exercises in losing control is a multi-layered tale about expropriations, mass evictions, demolitions and loss of home. The author examines the mechanisms of gentrification and the tactics of resistance against them, the social processes that take place in the demolition areas, and the experience of individuals who have suffered the loss of home. She seeks to capture the life-changing moment as well as the resulting uncertainty and instability experienced by residents of areas that undergo a transformation. Written in collaboration with scholars and victims of evictions, the book depicts urban planning processes and their imperfections, while also ing resistance and hope, exhaustion and resignation, and something that one of the book’s protagonists calls exercises in losing control.
Exercises in losing control is a multi-layered tale about expropriations, mass evictions, demolitions and loss of home. The author examines the mechanisms of gentrification and the tactics of resistance against them, the social processes that take place in the demolition areas, and the experience of individuals who have suffered the loss of home. She seeks to capture the life-changing moment as well as the resulting uncertainty and instability experienced by residents of areas that undergo a transformation. Written in collaboration with scholars and victims of evictions, the book depicts urban planning processes and their imperfections, while also ing resistance and hope, exhaustion and resignation, and something that one of the book’s protagonists calls exercises in losing control.
O AUTORZE
Karolina Breguła (b. 1979) is a visual artist, a graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. She creates films, photographs, installations and performance. Her work explores the problems of the status of the artwork and the materiality of art objects. She critically scrutinises contemporary art and its reception. She creates stories about art and architecture, which are a field of her anthropological and sociological observations. She is interested in the connection between art and reality – the favourable and detrimental effect of artists’ work, the remedial and destructive force of artistic activity, rituals connected to art and art’s social role. Many of her works are co-created with their protagonists and participants, blurring the border lines between professional and amateur artistic activity. Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as National Museum in Warsaw, Jewish Museum in New York and MOCA Taipei and at international events such as Venice Art Biennale and Singapore Biennale. She is the winner of the second prize in the Views 2013 Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, the third Samsung Art Master 2007 award and the 2016 Golden Claw at the Gdynia Film Festival. Her works are included in collections such as Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum and ING Polish Art Foundation. She is an associate professor at Academy of Art in Szczecin, she collaborates with lokal_30 Gallery. She lives in Warsaw.
O PROJEKTANCIE
Karolina Breguła, Zuza Derlacz
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