The Jam zine No.3 was made in November 2003 in Noord-Brabant (No.1 & No.2 were made in Poland, spring 2003). Edition was between 10 and 20 copies.
Category: Pranckiewicz
Attriboots and Co. is A4 size photocopy folded twice to make the A6 size publication. Edition – less then 10. Footweare is a main character of this publication but the subjects of journey and adventure are visible too.
Below there is a sample composition of rephotographed and scanned portraits of the Re-portrait Yourself work. The piece will show double portraits and they will present two colour spectrums â one based on the low quality re-photographing and another relied on the scanned output. Both versions are printed on the portable Polaroid printer with a Zink technology â no ink just crystals. 
On 14th May I do a project based on re-photographing portraits called Re-portrait Yourself. You are very welcome to contribute by coming over to the X Marks The BĂśkship but if you can not make it you can still be a part of it by sending a scan of your photo from the following sources:Â passport, ID cards, driving license or diploma or any kind of certificate. Please e-mail your photos to: czas@free.art.pl Below there is more details about the project.
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Saturday14 May 2011, 2pm – 8pm
Re-portrait Yourself
Visual flow coordinated by Waldemar Pranckiewicz
One big collective portrait will be created on Saturday 14 May at X Marks The BĂśkship. The Re-portrait Yourself event is about appropriating existing photographs from various documents and creating a new photographic work out of them.
Everybody is welcome to participate – all you need to do is bring a photograph of yourself, a partner or friend. This photograph should be taken from the following sources: passport, ID cards, driving license or diploma or any kind of certificate.
The photograph you submit will be re-photographed using a low quality mobile phone camera. It will then be printed out and used to create a spatial catalogue out of all re-photographed portraits.
The Re-portrait Yourself project focuses on portraits of yourself taken by others (or by an automated photo booth) which have then been used to represent you in your official documents. The more images you provide the better. Images of you taken in different periods of your life are also welcome.
(Please be aware that results of your participation could be used in the future projects or public presentations.)
Please Respond:
Textual interaction by Waldemar Pranckiewicz
Thursday, 5th May 2011, 3pm â 9pm
X Marks the BĂśkship
210 / 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ
http://bokship.org
Map – Bethnal Green tube / Bus 253 / Bus 106
Over a 6 hour period on Thursday 5th May you are invited to pop in to the X Marks The BĂśkship at anytime to take part in the following scenario:
1. Create a sentence out of provided text material
2. Use a mobile phone to text the sentence to a chosen person/persons using the prefix: âPlease Respond:[your sentence]â
3. Stick the sentence to the paper provided and write down any response that you receive.
The scenario, materials and any technical assistance are given â you perform a textual exchange. Every topic, name and comment written down, texted or forward is accepted. (Please be aware that results of your participation could be used in the future projects or public presentations.)
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Write & Fold & Secret
A few images of my piece at the group show Private Spaces hosted by Zoe’s Place from 13th to 17th April 2011. A bit more about the show in this interview. My work, called Write & Fold & Secret, was made of a notebook where you could leave a message to me and the cards with a website address. The message on the photos below is the only one I am aware of – it was read to me and then I decide to take picture of it.
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Send Secret
Get involved with the project based on Douglas Huebler’s Variable Piece #4 (1969).
Send a short secret – an authentic personal secret you have never revealed before, please do not sign it.
– Use your native or English language
– Mind that all secrets will be published online or printed-out at some point but all of course will stay anonymous.
Please visit the website to send your secret & get one previously submitted:
czas.free.art.pl/secret
Catch the statement â Discussing/writing artists’ statements
Wed, 23 Feb 2011, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Really Free School
The Black Horse â 6 Rathbone Place [map]
A meeting will start with 2 quotes from Martin Kippenberger’s (1953-1997):
“I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.”
“I’m not a ‘real’ painter, nor a ‘real’ sculptor; I only look at all that from the outside and sometimes try my hand at it, trying to add my own particular spice. I’m not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. I always think of the things I do, quite unambiguously, as truly living vehicles. Assuming roles is something that simply won’t work for me, since I don’t have a style. None at all. My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history”.
A few more examples of statements from other artists will follow, then a discussion about them and writing down your own statements. Photocopies of presented statements will be provided. All will take approx. 30 min.
Variable words about Douglas Huebler
A talk at Really Free School 18 Feb 2011 5pm 34-35 Fitzroy Square London
Douglas Huebler has been on my radar since 2008. From that year I try to trace his publications or see his works. It is not easy task, he is not as much popular as other Conceptual artists- at least I got this impression. There is interesting essay about him written by a fellow student of him and artist Mike Kelley called Shall We Kill Daddy? In that text written in 1997 there is a part: âIn much of Huebler’s early work there had been a tension between surface blandness and infinite meaning. Take for example Duration Piece #2, Paris, 1970, where the viewer is presented with six snapshots said to illustrate the âtimeless serenityâ of a statue seen in the distance behind some cement trucks. The accompanying text informs us of the mechanistic intervals at which the statue was photographed, but also tells us that the photos have been shuffled so they are chronologically out of sequence. No longer reportage, we are instead presented with time scrambled – which produces, I suppose, the statue’s âtimeless serenityâ.â [Read full text here]
Huebler is important for my practise and to be precise all his works where he combines photography and text. He is an artist with an interest in humans, in fellow people and there is space for fun in his works too. Bellow I attach one of his works and hereâs a picture with more works, bio info and bibliography. [Images from the book: Douglas Huebler, Camden Arts Centre, 2002]
