*SECOND SUMMIT OF THE FREE/ SLOW UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW: 7-9.12.2010 www.wuw2010.pl <http://www.wuw2010.pl>*
*The Second Summit of the Free/Slow University of Warsaw will be devoted to reflection on the transformations in the field of science and art.* The three-day meeting will gather educators, artists, activists and culture theorists from the entire Europe. During the Congress we will work on studies of specific problems pertaining to a critical analysis of system-related conditions in a comparative perspective. *This year’s FSUW Congress is to serve the purpose of mapping mechanisms of resistance and searching for alternatives to the transformation of independent institutions of culture and universities into effective and profit-oriented enterprises. The proceedings of the Summit will be accompanied by afternoon events open for the public:* Jan Simon’s exhibition “Four Pata-economic Undertakings”, presenting the principles of alternative economics, and the premiere of the new translation of the notorious book by Ivan Illich Deschooling Society. Jan Simon’s exhibition will feature, among others, “Zollskulptur” – sculpture made of smuggled cigarettes, part of the project “A Survey of Lotto Systems. Mind’s Struggle with the World” and the work “Lagos Transfer” on display at the Museum of Art in £ódŸ. Participants of the debate accompanying the premiere of the new translation of Illich’s Deschooling Society: Jan Sowa, Przemys³aw Czapliñski and Piotr Laskowski. * There will be a live coverage of the Summit available at: **www.wuw2010.pl* <http://www.wuw2010.pl> ***CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND KNOWLEDGE FACTORIES: ANALYSIS AND RESISTANCE time:* 7-9.12.2010, Tuesday-Thursday, 11-17.00 *venue:* Solec, 44 Solec St., Warsaw / www.solec.waw.pl <http://www.solec.waw.pl> *applications:* szymon[at]funbec.eu *working language:* English *hosted by:* Janek Sowa, Kuba Szreder *participants, among others:* Matteo Pasquinelli (Berlin), Critical Practice (London), Microsillions (Geneva), Carrot Workers Collective (London), Radical Education Collective (Ljubljana), Heath Bunting (Bristol), Krystian Szadkowski (Brussels/Poznan), Tomasz Szkudlarek (Gdansk), Kuba Mikurda (Krakow), Kaja Pawe³ek (Warszawa), Magdalena Rek – Wo¿niak (Lodz), Piotr Kowzan (Poznan) COLLATERAL EVENTS: *JAN SIMON: FOUR PATA-ECONOMIC UNDERTAKINGS exhibition opening:* 7.12.2010, Tuesday, 19.00 *time:* 7-19.12.2010 *venue:* Bêc Zmiana, 65/7 Mokotowska St., Warsaw * IVAN ILLICH: DESCHOOLING SOCIETY publication premiere:*8.12.2010, Wednesday, 19.30 *debate:* Jan Sowa, Przemys³aw Czapliñski, Piotr Laskowski *venue:* Solec, 44 Solec St., Warsaw / www.solec.waw.pl <http://www.solec.waw.pl> This year, the FSUW Summitwill adopt a half-open form – seminars are free to attend, but we ask all participants for a prior enrolment. Number of participants limited. Please send applications (including a bio and a short explanation note on why you are interested in the subject of the seminar) to the address: szymon[at]funbec.eu *The programme of the Summit includes the following seminars, among others: Matteo Pasquinelli (Berlin):* /On the ruins of creative city. /*Krystian Szadkowski (Brussels/Poznan):* /Regaining education – conclusions from global students and workers; struggles 2006-2010. /*Tomasz Szkudlarek (Gdañsk):* /Knowledge society and its workers. /*The Carrot Workers Collective (London):* /The carrot and the stick regulate our present: from student loans to mortgages and the imperative to creatively and flexibly self-actualise. /*Kaja Pawe³ek (Warszawa):* /When vocation becomes profession. /*Piotr Kowzan (Poznan):* /Pedagogy of debt: from migration to institutional changes /*Critical Practice (London):* /Critical Practice: A case study of a culture in common /*Heath Bunting (Bristol):* /A fortune of $1,000,000 begins with a single transaction /*Microsillons (Geneva):* /The fly in fly out workshop /*Kuba Mikurda (Krakow):* /Analysis of the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. /*Radical Education Collective (Ljubljana):* /Beyond the factories of knowledge: for a world without capitalist exploitation /*Magdalena Rek-WoŸniak (Lodz):* /Picnic for hobos? On institutionalised culture and social exclusion in post-industrial city. / *FSUW Curator*: Kuba Szreder | *FSUW Organiser*: Bêc Zmiana Foundation The FSUW 2010 project is financed with support of the City of Warsaw. * Partner:* Solec / www.solec.waw.pl <http://www.solec.waw.pl> +++ Bêc Zmiana Foundation for New Culture Warsaw, Mokotowska 65/7 +48 22 827 64 62 +48 516 802 843 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.funbec.eu <http://www.funbec.eu/english>/english <http://www.funbec.eu/english> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fundacja-Bec-Zmiana/305105373542>facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fundacja-Bec-Zmiana/305105373542> _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
