The Pitch-in Culture was raised at the ground level. In artistic terms it was a trend based on post-conceptual art. On the one hand it expressed the ending of modernism, and on the other - the beginnings of postmodernism in Polish art. Therefore, it gathered together the most progressive art at that time.

It closed the past of avant-garde art, and at the same time it opened new post-avantgarde perspectives for art. Therefore it was the Pitch-in Culture that caught the continuity of Polish art during the turn of modernism / postmodernism, and the continuity broken in other fields by martial law.

The 80s in Poland are a specific time of interest - of the fall of communism and of economical and political crisis. Martial law was the last stage of that decadent era. However, as it turned out, the oppression of the authorities was not able to overcome the freedom movement of the society, happening during a short period of the so called 'first Solidarity' between August 1980 and December 1981. The freedom movement was also noticeable within the artists' community and more broadly - people associated with art.

The often dramatic hardships and limits, in social and political life in Poland of the 80s directly caused the Pitch-in Culture. Its emergence not only had an artistic dimension, but it gained the status of cultural phenomenon - an expression of the whole era presented in art. From the perspective of time, one can see it as a cultural movement that united artists, but also attracted everyone sympathetic towards art. Therefore, it was also a social movement.

The Pitch-in Culture was also a symptom of the grass roots ability of the artistic community to unite and to self-organise in a social dimension, under martial law (an inspiration for which was also the experience of the so called first Solidarity, common for all participants of the Pitch-in Culture). This ability to create a milieu, despite individual differences, focused the artistic community and contributed to the later process of creating independent artists' movements in the democratic, citizen based society of the 90s (e.g. the Living Gallery). The consequences of that movement are valid today in the form of emerging initiatives that connect various milieus (such as the Polska Biennale). Seen in this perspective, the Pitch-in Culture of the 80s is a phenomenon of unusual importance that had its consequences in art and society in the whole of Poland.

In the symposium there will participate witnesses and artists - the participants of the Pitch-in Culture, as well as scholars.

In the first part of the symposium direct evidence will be collected - the subjective stories on one's own participation in the Pitch-in Culture, and how it was perceived by others.

In the other part, materials will be made available for scholars of various disciplines - art historians, culture and film experts etc. who will develop their research based on them.

A part of the symposium will be a discussion panel with the Pitch-in Culture participants and scholars.

The materials will be published in the Art and Documentation journal (in spring and autumn issues 2012).

Please, send your paper proposals together with their abstracts to the symposium's organizer:
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński: e.mail: rwk@uni.lodz.pl
With a note: Pitch-in Culture Symposium

Deadline: March 1st, 2012.

list of participants. The list is not complete.
We ask all witnesses of Pitch-in Culture to supplement.

Adam Rzepecki
Ewa Zarzycka
Tomasz Snopkiewicz
Jacek Jóźwiak
Marek Janiak
Antoni Mikołajczyk
Ryszard Waśko
Maria Waśko
Jacek Kryszkowski
Andrzej Partum
Zbigniew Warpechowski
Andrzej Różycki
Andrzej Ciesielski
Ewa Kowalska
Wojciech Bruszewski
Zofia Łuczko
Elżbieta Żukowska
Lech Czołnowski
Tomasz Konart
Iwona Lemke /Konart/
Zbigniew Bińczyk
Włodzimierz Adamiak
Zbigniew Libera
Małgosia Kopczyńska /Pynia/
Dorota Morawska
Andrzej Kwietniewski
Małgorzata Potocka
Andrzej Paruzel
Janusz Zagrodzki
Adam Paczkowski
Radosław Sowiak
Andrzej Wielogórski /Makary/
Maciej Nowakowski
Grzegorz Zygier
Jerzy Gawron /Zygfryd/
Natalia LL
Andrzej Lachowicz
Wacław Ropiecki
Anna Płotnicka
Barbara Graboń
Janusz Banach
Katarzyna Piss
Andrzej Świetlik
Zdzisław Pacholski
Jerzy Truszkowski
Jola Ciesielska
Dorota Skaryszewska /Monkiewicz/
Paweł Kwiek
Zygmunt Rytka
Andrzej Mroczek Richard Boulez _ Australia / USA
Paul Clark _ W.Brytania
Maya Gordon - Holandia
Jan Świdziński
Hubert Taczanowski
Ted Ciesielski
Tomasz Sikorski
Ryszard Piegza
Janusz Bałdyga
Guy Schraenen _ Belgia
Willy Kelly
Zespoły muzyczne: Plusch, Moskwa, Amgualangua, Sesja'80, Awaks
Aleksander Honory
Wojciech Grochowski
Dariusz Kędziora
Janusz Dziubak
Witold Krymarys
Waldemar Ciechowski
Henryk Jasiek
E.K. /Ela Kacprzak/
Piotr Weychert
Miken Malinowski
Andrzej Sulima-Suryn
Zbyszko Trzeciakowski
Anastazy Wiśniewski
Grzegorz Dziamski
Marek Grygiel
Bożena Stokłosa
Maryla Sitkowska
Józef Robakowski
Anna Nierusz-Kowalska
Janusz Połom
Mariella Nitoslawska
Jan Dobkowski
Witek Rossowski
Darek Kędziora /Bossman/
Jerzy Frączak
Jan
Jadwiga Singerowa
Olaf Olszewski
Wojciech Sztukowski
Katarzyna Kutyna
Mikołaj Novottny
Agata Smalcerz
Ewa Hornik
Barbara Konopka
Irena Nawrot
Anna Nawrot
Jerzy Ryba
Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Leszek Brogowski
Edward Łazikowski
Lech Mrozek
Tomasz Dobrzyński
Piotr Zarębski
Mirosava
Mikołaj Smoczyński
Wojciech Czajkowski
Andrzej Janaszewski
Witosław Czerwonka
Tomasz Samosionek
Andrzej Wyrozębski
Tadeusz Piechura
Mirosława Piechura
Jerzy Treliński
Janusz Kołodrubiec
Lech Lechowicz
Adam Sobota
Jerzy Koba
Jacek Singer
Hanka Stańczyk
Małgorzata Paruzel
Ryszard Winiarski
Jolanta Gawlik
Andrzej Kamrowski
Czesław Chwiszczuk
Jacek Kasprzycki
Jacek Soliński
Jan Kaja
Kajetan Sosnowski
Elżbieta Kalinowska
Stanisław Wolski
Grażyna Wolska
(Aleks Korecki, Michał Zduniak) Duet 46
Thomas Struks _ Hamburg
Grzegorz Musiał
Małgorzata Musiał
Janusz Głowacki
Andrzej Chędko
Grzegorz Dutkiewicz
Andrzej Dudek-Durer
Marek Łopata
Jerzy Busza
Leszek Bautrel
Ewa Sosnowska
Fredo Ojda
Ewa Słowik
Andrzej Słowik
Kazimierz Jałowczyk
Jerzy Federowicz
Ludmiła Popiel
Wojciech Stefanik
Andrzej Szczepłocki
Marek Wawryn
Zygmunt Wujcik
Bogdan Kwaśniewski
Jerzy Onuch
Danuta Wierzbicka
Teresa Bujnowska
Violetta Krajewska
Piotr Rypson
Agnieszka Wójcik
Barbara Aumer
Anna Ciba
Bogdan Czumaj
Grzegorz Fedorowicz
Marek Gwiazda
Patryk Halkiewicz
Ewa Jaworska
Waldemar Jarosz
Paweł Jackowski
Justyna Jarząbek
Monika Krajewska
Michał Kubiak
Zbyszek Korzeniowski
Krzysztof Klępka
Krystyna Motylińska
Zbigniew Olkiewicz

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