Alternativa - International Contemporary Visual Art Festival
29.05.11 - 30.09.11
Wyspa Institute of Art - Ul. Doki 1/145B, Gda?sk, Poland

Located in the legendary Gdansk Shipyard, where the workers’ strikes of 1980 began 
the process of the disintegration of the Communist bloc, Alternativa looks at the atmosphere 
of political momentum and its possibilities. Alternativa aims to investigate the ways in which contemporary art intersects with the political. It seeks diverse modes of knowing and is searching for a performative, affectual apparatus through which we can explore possible ways of existing  
in contemporaneity. For the exhibitions and events, the newly renovated spectacular space, Hall 90B, is made available along with Wyspa’s and Modelarnia’s own spaces.
 
The Summer 2011 programme will materialise in two exhibitions: "Labour and Leisure", "Estrangement".  more: