Cycle started in 2022, as a continuation of the projects: TIMEMIT (2011-2022), TABLEABLE, (1999-1012), orient-action / occident-action (1991-2001) – these projects focus on the observation and interpretation of human behavior in areas affected by civilization processes.
Tuesday / Oct 1, 2024 / 4.15 pm / GAFU
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Artur Tajber
Intermedia artist. Born in Katowice in 1953, he studied at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław and at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he graduated in 1978 from the studio of Prof. Adam Marczyński. For 25 years (1982–2007) he was an employee of the Visual Arts Department at the Faculty of Industrial Forms of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Founder of the Interdepartmental Intermedia Studio (2001–2007) and creator of its curriculum, co-author of the so-called minimum requirements in intermedia studies, head of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2007–2012), first dean (for two terms) of the newly established Faculty of Intermedia (2012–2020). He is currently the head of the Art Phenomena Department and the Conceptual Art Studio at this faculty.
Tajber has been involved in action art since the mid-1970s. He co-founded the performance group KONGER (1983–1993) and the Fort Sztuki Association (and served as its president in 1996–2007). He does creative, research, educational, theoretical and organizational work in the field of performance art. He creates thematic series (e.g. ORIENT-AKCJA, OKCYDENT-AKCJA, WALK’MAN, TABLEABLE, TIMEMIT) in which he combines different media and means of expression. Some of his works after 1984 were made as site-specific projects in natural spaces (e.g. southern Poland, northern Scotland, Northern Ireland, Norway). Since the mid-1990s, the main driving force behind his performances has been the analysis of human behavior in urbanized and man-made spaces.He has run several galleries (including gt gallery, Pryzmat) and many international art and research projects – as initiator, curator or collaborator (including: AKCJA at the BWA Gallery and Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Territories Nomades, the bi-weekly Fort Sztuki, TIMEMIT, MetaMuseum, Aesthetics & Bias). He has implemented two research programs funded by the National Science Center, and he is also the editor of the publishing series Metamuzeum – artyści performance o sztuce performance [Metamuseum – Performance Artists on Performance Art] (the first three volumes were published thanks to NSC funding). He has presented his oeuvre in most European countries, North, Central and South America and Asia. In 2022 he celebrated forty years of academic work, and this fall will mark the 50th anniversary of his involvement in art.
