
Tyranny and Culture Wars
Martha Wilson [Franklin Furnace/NYC] + SUKA OFF [Poland]
MARTHA WILSON - FOUNDING MEMBER - FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVES
“Intro to the Culture Wars of the 1980s and After”
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www.franklinfurnace.orgSUKA OFF [POLAND]
SUKA OFF is a Poland based artist collective existing since 1995.
They have been creating work across visual theatre, performance art,
club action, installation, photography, video art and music visuals.
Their work has been presented in theatres, art galleries, clubs and festivals
in most European countries, as well as in Canada, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Japan.
They remain completely independent and not supported by any public institution due to the character and content of their work.
The members of SUKA OFF are Piotr Wegrzynski (founder, visual artist, performer) and Sylvia Lajbig (classical philologist, performer).
The recurring themes of SUKA OFF art are:
- human carnality in all its biological and physiological aspects
- the attempt to redefine the gender by blurring the individual attributes / sexual codes culturally arrogated to the male and female
- redefinition of classical myths and philosophical ideas and translating them into modern visual language
- the search of alternative and radical forms of communication based on
the connection between the living human body and electronic devices

Kaarel Kütas and Diana Danieli: Don Giovanni - The Rake will be Punished“
Kaarel Kütas and Diana Danieli: Don Giovanni - The Rake Punished
Kaarel Kütas is a performance and visual artist from Estonia. He has been studing in the Academia Non Grata and Estonian Academy of Arts (MA) and has been doing performances since 2006. His work varies from rustic agricultural mythology to social and political art, from inside personal actions to performances, where audience is actively included. He often asks other artists or just regular people to help and assist him in his performances. Kaarel Kütas has been doing collaborative works together with different artists and art groups Non Grata (EST/international), C.n.o.p.t. (EST), Arrowgroup (EST) and Giraffe with the Flaming Neck (EST). He has been exhibiting and performing in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Russia, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Georgia.
Diana Danieli is a Brazilian classical and jazz singer, who is living and performing in New York City. Carnegie Hall solo in 2010 with the concert Route to Brazil. In 2015 she toured Europe including performance at The Muzikverein in Vienna. She has performed several opera roles throughout Brazil and the United States and Europe.
Diana Danieli and Kaarel Kütas will perform together in a performance-art-opera: Don Giovanni - The Rake Punished
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