Topics of activity:
- Contemporary visual art
- Art in public spaces
- Transformation of public space in different European countries
- Life long learning
- Buiding partnership between organisations providing cultural education
- Exploring the landscapes of institutions dealing contemporary art in Europe

Forms of activity
Learning partnership consists of certain number of visits (mobilities) of staff and learners of applying organisations to other countries and study visits connected with getting to know local environment of the hosting organisations, exchanging experience and contacts. Every partner will be responsible for hosting one visit. The project lasts 2 years. Apart from visits for a successful project partners should involve local actions connected with the partnership.

Finances
Learning partnerships are being financed by the Grundtrvig Programme http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/grundtvig/grundtvig_en.php. Every country has a  National Agency(link) where you can find more information under Partnership Projects. Projects are financed by flat rate  and depends on number of mobilities (7000-24000 eu), is easy to administer. Deadline for applying it 21.2.2012. All organisations apply with the same – master application, that is being submitted to the national Agency out with attachments. There is no leading organisatin, all partner have the same rights and duties.

Who are we looking for? Organisations, institutions and places dealing with contemporary visual art and art in public space from EU countries and Croatia, who are offering also different types of educational offer for adult learners (non-professional education, not within formal education framework); interested in getting to know other institutions in Europe and learning from their experience.

Contact: Paulina Maloy paulina.maloy@gmail.com, skype: paulina.poznanska, 

Who are we?
ART TRANSPARENT Contemporary Art Foundation was originated in 2005 in Wrocław. People who are involved in its work are specialists in a variety of fields: artists and lecturers associated with the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts, psychologists and specialists in the area of social sciences. The Foundation’s goals regarding contemporary art and social topics are being achieved by means of local and national projects as well as own initiatives and attempts to consolidate the artistic and intellectual environment around current social and art problems.
Since 2005 ART TRANSPARENT organizes the SURVIVAL Art Review /www.survival.art.pl/, and since 2007  runs the Contemporary Art Gallery in the former studio of professor Eugeniusz Geppert ‘Mieszkanie Gepperta’ (Geppert;s Apartment) /www.mieszkaniegepperta.pl/. Besides, the Foundation is engaged in publishing and educational activities, in particular those connected with the issues of social exclusion, otherness and anti-discrimination.

According to Borges’s deliberations (Osvaldo Ferrari, Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Reencuentro – Dialogos Ineditos’, Sudamericana 1999), writing the fifth gospel, in literary terms an apocrypha on a par with its four predecessors, seems to be an impossible task, or one that would require sacrificing a whole life – in a sense, making an ‘offering’ of life. The death of the Italian artist Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was violently murdered in 1975 (probably due to his uncompromising political views and equally uncompromising artistic work – Pasolini died just before the premiere of the famous ‘Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom’), could be understood as a final, tragic act of devoting one’s life to art – or one artwork – which Borges mentions. Pasolini’s work becomes synonymous with the term ‘gospel’ and takes on its functions because – being a poetic parable, a symbol, a hyperbole, an anecdote – it is also a political manifesto and a radical declaration. The literal reference to the original text and an attempt to tell it anew – that is, to reinterpret it – is crucial.

Pasolini’s ‘Gospel’ (or a gospel according to Pasolini) was written using especially the language of the cinema. Literal reading of the Biblical original was reflected most clearly in his three masterpieces of cinematography:  ‘La Ricotta’ (1962), ‘Gospel According to Matthew’ (1964) and ‘Theorem’ (1968). In these realizations, which refer to the Passion, traditional figures reveal their conventionality or take on a new depth, far beyond canonical regulations and ordering doctrines. Pasolini took away all their sacredness, their sanctifying aura, in order to show his own metaphysics derived from a consent to a terrifying randomness of the world. A feeling of such randomness permeates almost all the artist’s works, both film and literary ones.

The third part of the ‘Gospel of the Damned’ is devoted to the idea of ‘exegesis’, showing a possibility of an individual reading and interpretation of the ‘Scripture’ – thus experiencing personally the canonical test (i.e. a text which has become an order). The subject of ‘Gospel of the Damned part 3: EXEGESIS’ revolves around issues connected with the coexistence of individual ‘religious’ experience (which does not necessarily have to be connected with any ‘rite’, or a regulated ‘way’ of ‘professing’ a faith, but could be an element of the not-everyday life, in which a metaphysical experience is combined with experiencing the present moment, the passage of time, being entangled in social roles, sex, desire, attachment) and traditions and orders which regulate this experience (such as norms, rituals and doctrines).

Works of artists from Wrocław: Anna Kołodziejczyk, Maja Wolińska, Dy Tagowska, Łukasz Paluch and Michał Bieniek will be presented in the Mieszkanie Gepperta Art Gallery (and outside – in open urban space)
Curator: Michał Bieniek
Verrnissage: 10 November, 7 pm.
The exhibition will be open until 9 December; the gallery is open from Wednesday to Friday, from 4 pm. to 7 pm.
Mieszkanie Gepperta Art Gallery, ul. Ofiar Oświęcimskich 1/2, Wrocław

Pieces left unclaimed by artists are placed in the Delay Museum, where they serve as “yesterday’s art” ― no longer current from the Emergency Room’s point of view, but nevertheless topical, especially when compared to critical art displayed in classic, curated exhibitions, whose preparation takes much longer.

The Emergency Room project was first held at the PS1 Gallery at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2007. The format was created by Thierry “Colonel” Geoffroy, a Danish format artist who will also be the curator of the Polish edition. Besides looking for global emergencies, the Emergency Room at the European Culture Congress will address congress events, especially topics of meetings and discussions.

European Culture Congress will be held in Wrocław from 8 to 11 September, 2011 is one of the most important events of Polish EU Presidency 2011. Four days of non-stop culture. Exhibitions, concerts, films, theatre performances, and panels. Over 300 artists and renowned intellectuals from all over the world gather in one city. More information at: www.culturecongress.eu.

The Emergency Room pavilion will be set up in the busiest location in the building complex surrounding Centennial Hall. The pavilion was designed by Marcin Garbacki and Karolina Tunajek (Projekt Praga). Pavilion's interior was designed by architect Jean de Piepape.

Curators: Michał Bieniek, Thierry Geoffroy
Architects: Marcin Garbacki, Karolina Tunajek
Interior design: Jean de Piepape
Production: Karolina Bieniek, Agata Makowska

> FORMAT Emergency Room Wrocław: 8 – 11.09.2011 / hrs: 10:00-22:00.
> Opening: 8.09.2011 / hr: 20:00.
> Passages: 9 – 11.09.2011 / daily: 12:00 & 18:00.
> Delay Museum: 13 – 25.09.2011 / hrs: 10:00 – 20:00.

The project is part of the European Culture Congress that is held within the Cultural Programme of  the Polish Presidency 2011 – UWAGA NA KULTURĘ!

Organizers: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Audiovisual Institute
Co-organizer: City of Wrocław
Co-funder: European Union
Patrons of the Polish Presidency: PKO Bank Polski, PZU S.A.
Partners: Centennial Hall in Wrocław, Feature Films Studio, European Cultural Foundation
Technological Partner of the Congress: Orange
Organizer of the Format / Production: ART TRANSPARENT Foundation
Partner of the Format: Imagine Film Production Studio

www.nina.gov.pl
www.culturecongress.eu
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/poland.html