Video Decoration

The work was com­mis­sioned by the SDP Association on the occasion of the 10th Meeting of Delegates of the Association of Polish Jour­nalists (SDP). KwieKulik designed and made a decoration for the rostrum. As the job had to be produced on short notice, KwieKulik did not manage to document the process. Instead, the fol­lowing day, as they wat­ched the televised meeting on TV from their flat, they filmed the feature from the screen of their por­table TV set. Among the par­ticipants of the meeting were Edward Gierek, the First Secretary of the Polish United Worker’s Party (PZPR), and Jerzy Łukaszewicz, the Secretary of the Depart­ment of Cul­ture of the Cen­tral Com­mit­tee of the PZPR, whose special publication about cul­tural activists men­tioned the artists, among others, as those who the Party should not sup­port. In 2005, Kwiek and Kulik filmed the paper design decoration project with a digital camera and edited it together with the Super 8 mm film, featuring the scenes from the official ceremony, broad­cast on national TV more than quar­ter of a cen­tury ago.




Video Decoration

1978 digitalized 2005 DVD, 1' 37” archival inkjet print on board, 40 x 30 cm, ed. of 5 + 2 A.P.