The Montage of Attractions

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The cataloge of an exhibition of eighteen PhD students from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. The exhibition took place in a very exceptional space - an airport.

This had a huge impact on how the exhibition was designed. The presented works had to compete with this attractive environment. The cataloge itself became a part of this space. It was at the same time a cataloge, a poster and the description of the works put on the wall (in a form of postcards - handy for people in travel). Every guest of the exhibition could decide how the catologe will look and with works will it include.

The term "The Montage of Attractions" was used by Sergei Eisenstein. He argued that the film should tell stories, a collage of unexpected images, attractions.

EXHIBITION

PLACE: Pyrzowice Airport, observation deck - Galeria odlotowa

TIME: 4th July – 6th September 2015

ARTISTS: Adam Dudek, Małgorzata Futkowska, Mieczysław Herba, Dariusz Łęczycki, Wojciech Łuka, Daria Malicka, Milena Michałowska, Justyna Miklasiewicz, Monika Mysiak, Monika Panek, Patrycja Pawęzowska, Agnieszka Piotrowska, Anna Rakoczy, Hanna Sitarz, Agata Szymanek, Marija Tomaz, Martyna Wolna, Jakub Zdejszy

CURATOR: Łukasz Białkowski

COORDINATOR: Katarzyna Pełka

CATALOGUE

EDITED BY: Łukasz Białkowski

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Marcin Wysocki

ISBN: 978-83-61424-71-0

An attraction is any aggressive moment, any element of it that subjects the audience to emotional or psychological influence, verified by experience and mathematically calculated to produce specific emotional shocks in the spectator in their proper order within the whole. These shocks provide the only opportunity of perceiving the ideological aspect of what is being shown, the final ideological conclusion.

Sergei Eisenstein