Oct 10 2023

Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance

October 10 - 14, 2023

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Location

UIC, Lake Michigan, and Wild Mile Urban Rivers

Polish Soundtrack

Time flies and so does good weather. 'Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance' is a postartistic festival devoted to new ways of spending time, knowledge-making and sharing, experimenting with cross-disciplinary research, activist and collaborative practices of anthropocenic humanities and arts.

This year's edition (Oct 10-14) will take place at the campus, by Lake Michigan and Wild Mile Chicago - a mile-long floating park located on the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River.

Among the events - walks on the wild side (sensory, audio and herbal walks with among others - Rachel Havrelock), Walk About It, film screenings, Boring Drug concert & DJ set by Vesolo, experimental, cross-disciplinary conference "Sink or Swim" (with among others - Michał Paweł Markowski, Julia Vaingurt, Janek Sowa, Ralph Cintrón, Teresa Córdova), landscape fieldwork exercises (by Ömür Harmanşah), open-class with one of the greatest independent film director in the U.S. - Deborah Stratman, workshops on DIY survival strategies in the late capitalism & more.

Festival curators - Justyna Wąsik & Beate Geissler with Katarzyna Majchrowicz-Wolny. Main Sponsor & Intellectual Supporter - Michał Paweł Markowski.
Co-organized by PRLS and the Anthropocene Lab, UIC.
With the support of LCSL and Institute for the Humanities.

Contact

Justyna Wąsik

Date posted

Oct 10, 2023

Date updated

Oct 10, 2023