Agnieszka Polska
"The Thousand-Year Plan"

Agnieszka Polska’s latest work, "The Thousand-Year Plan", will fill the eleven-metre-high exhibition hall of the Museum on the Vistula.

Shown on two screens, the film talks about the electrification of Polish countryside in the years following WWII. On the one hand, it is a history of modernization and emancipation, and on the other – a poetic expression of anxieties resulting from the protagonists’ entanglement in a moment of technological breakthrough, in which “electrical current measures the new time.”

On two opposite screens, "The Thousand-Year Plan" juxtaposes four paesantry characters shown on two opposite screens: a couple of engineers working on the electrification of rural areas and two anti-communist partisans hiding in the surrounding forests. Although they all imagine the new world differently, they are united by an awareness of living through a turning point in history.

curator: Natalia Sielewicz

Exhibition opening: July 2, 6 p.m.
DJ set at Paloma: from 7 p.m. 

featuring:
7:00 p.m. - Nathan Gray
7:45 p.m. - Tomasz Kowalski
8:30 p.m. - FOQL
9:15 p.m. - Dis Fig

The opening's musical partner is Unsound, and the event itself heralds the second edition of the interdisciplinary Ephemera festival, which will take place from 26-29 August in various locations around Warsaw.