Warsaw
Observatory
of Culture
Announcement: results of the call for the third edition of WOK Residencies
The Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK) has completed the call for the third edition of the WOK Artistic and Research Residencies programme in 2025. After seventeen interviews during the second stage of the call, the committee, consisting of Anna Bieliz, Prot Jarnuszkiewicz, Łucja Krzyżanowska, Maryna Tomaszewska and Paweł Sztarbowski, invited the following ten people, who received the highest scores, to join the 2025 programme.
Facilitation of Co-Thinking: Self-Examination and Creating Alliances
The first meetings of the ‘Co-thinking’ project, which were networking sessions for people involved in artistic research, paved the way for self-examination and self-organisation activities, which we intend to develop as an informal group. This text is, therefore, not a summary of a completed project but an account of an ongoing process. It is also a snippet of a heterogeneous, polyphonic archive of cooperation and a preview of our future activities.
PODCAST: How artists and researchers availed themselves of the WOK 2024 residencies
In December 2024, we completed the second edition of the WOK residency, conducted in line with the motto ‘Break or Breakthrough’. During this residency, we supported the individual creative processes of 13 people (five of whom formed two collectives). We now give them the floor to talk about their experience.
The museum is ours. A conversation with Joanna Mytkowska
Will the new model for a cultural institution be an outlet in a state of constant formation, uninterrupted transformation and repurposing? How do you manage a museum that is constantly migrating, under construction, shrinking and expanding its space? Joanna Mytkowska, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw talks about managing an elusive structure.
