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KOAN JEFF BAYSA is a practicing specialist physician with a broad curatorial background. He recently completed the Whitney ISP in curatorial studies and divides his time between Honolulu and New York. His curatorial interests lie in examining how medical science impacts artistic practice and production.

Marta Deskur was born in Krakow in 1962 and studied at the École de Beaux Arts, Aix-en-Provence. She received the Diplôme National Superieur d’expression plastique in 1998. Her latest work, Rodzina (Family) has been exhibited in Poland at the Goethe Institute and elsewhere in Europe.

Interview with Marta Deskur by Koan Jeff Baysa, Independent Curator.Web project New Baby? was created during Marta Deskur’s residency at Location One

Location One gratefully acknowledges The Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Asian Cultural Council for their invaluable support of the International Residency Program.

MARTA DESKUR
Born in 1962, Krakow, Poland.

1983-1988 — studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Aix-en-Provence, France,

1988 – Diplom National Superieur d’expresion plastique,1989-1990 — conducted the class of drawing at the School of Fine Arts, Aix-en-Provence, 1992 — „ Artist en residence” Escuela de Deseno, Altos de Chavon, Dominikana, 1998 — “Transfer” — scholarship of the Kultursekretariat Nordrhein-Westfalden “Artist en residence”, Bonn, and Munchengladbach,Germany.1999 — The Vardo-Seminar Fundation, Riga, Latva, 2000 — scholarship of the Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen, Germany, lives in Kraków.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

1991 – Galerie Caroline Serero, Marsylia, Francja,

Dziekanka Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1992 – Modus, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

1994 – Au Dela de Marie-Madeleine, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

1995 – Irrelations, GaleriaKronika, Bytom / Galeria Grodzka, Lublin,

1996 – Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Somebody else is using your eyes, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

Human clear, Center of Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa, Poland

1997 - Memory : Slogans, Krzysztofory Gallery, Kraków Poland

1998 – Human —clear, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Repablic

This is Klara and this is me, Pico, Zacheta Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1999- Family, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

Visitation, Potocka Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Family, Goethe Institut, Krakow, Poland

2000
Family, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Family, Polnisches Institut Leipzig, Lipsk, Germany

Marta vol 1 and many more, F/6 Gallery Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen, Germany

2001- This is Klara and this is me Pico, 400 Gallery, Chicago, USA

Family, Centre of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdanck, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

1989 — Vasarely Fondation, Aix-en-Provence, France

1991 - We are, Zacheta Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1992 - A Sketch to the Gallery of Contemporary Art, National Museum, Warszawa, Poland

- Cultural Center Foundation,Altos de Chavon, Dominikana,

1994 — Constraction in Proces Lonz, Poland

1995 - New I’s for New Years, Kunstelerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

1996 - Horizons Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

1997 - Horizons, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seul, Korea,

Novalog, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków, Poland

/ Paulinke Ulfe Berlin, Germany,

1998 - Transfer, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Warszawa, Poland/Wyspa Progress Gallery Foundation, Gdansk, Poland/ The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków, Poland / Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany / Museum Bochum, Germany / Kunsthale Bielefeld, Riccherd Kaselowski Haus, Germany

1999 - Art Negotiators faced with reality, Center of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdanck, Pl

2000 - Wanted- International video program, The Bunkier Sztuki Cont. art Galery, Krakow,

Scen 2000, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa, Poland

2001 — In Between-Art from Poland, 400 Gallery, Chicago, USA

Art Negotiators faced with reality, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CATALOGUES OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

*M. Deskur, X. Wolski, tekst/text : Urszula Czartoryska, BWA Szczecin, 1991

*Marta Deskur, tekst/text : Maria Morzuch, Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska, Kraków, 1993

*Deskur — Au dela de Marie-Madeleine, tekst/text : Tomasz Grylewicz, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, 1994

*Marta Deskur. Irrelacje, teksty/texts ; Poza — Swiaty. Rozmowa Wita Kopytki z Martą Deskur ( oprac./elab.:Jarosław Suchan); Jarosław Suchan, De Relatinibus, Galeria Kronika, Bytom, 1995

*Rodzina/Family M. Deskur, tekst: Piotr Rypson „Marty Deskur Obrazy, Cytaty, Pytania“,Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, 1999

*Rodzina/Famil M. Deskur The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, teksty/texts: Jaroslaw Suchan, wywiad z Maria Morzuch, cz. II, Piotr Pypson „Pamiec, Przyszlosc, Przedstawienie”, Jan Simon „Skad przyjezdzamy? Gdzie parkujemy? Dokad jedziemy? Sztuka M.Deskur a poszukiwanie sensu w sytuacji ponowoczesnej”Krakow 2000

CATALOGUES OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS

*Jestesmy, Galeria Zacheta, Warszawa, 1991

*Abattoirs 91, tekst/text: Urszula Czartoryska, Marsylia, 1991

*Artistas en Residenca, Galeria Principal, Altos de Chavon, Dominikana

*Zywioly, tekst/text: Urszula Czartoryska, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki w Lodzi, 1993

*Wspolrzedne Mikolajska 20, Krakow, 1993

*Ikonopres, Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, Szczecin, 1994

*New I’s for New Years, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / CSW Warszawa, 1995

*Unter einem Dach, Klosterstrasse 68-70, Podewil, Berlin, 1995

*Impact avan-garde cracovienne apres 1945, Instytut Polski w Paryzu, 1996

*Horizons,14 Polish Contermporary Artists, tekst/text : Piotr Rypson; Sonije Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea / Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi,1996

*News from Cracow, Pecsi Galeria, Pecs, 1997

*Transfer, Muzeum Narodowe, Warszawa / Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 1998

*Negocjatorzy Sztuki wobec Rzeczywistosci, tekst/text: Bozena Czubak “Wobec Rzeczywistosci”, Maria Morzuch Rozmowa cz I CSW Laznia, Gdansk / Bunkier Sztuki Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, 2000

*Scena 2000 , tekst/text: Stach Szablowski, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski , Warszawa, 2000

PERIODICALS:

*Obieg nr 55-56, Warszawa 1993, Lukasz Guzek Na Mikolajskiej strasza duchy (sztuki wspolczesnej). Wspolrzedne.

*Obieg nr 59-60, Warszawa 1994, Jaroslaw Suchan Przeczucie obecnosci.

*New Observations nr 102, Nowy York 1994, Marta Deskur Voice from Krakow.

*Art&Business nr 8-7, Warszawa 1996, Agnieszka Chmura Jasna strona czlowieka.

*Balkon Contemporary Art Magazine nr 1, 2, Budapeszt 1997, Piotr Rypson Marta Deskur kepei, idezetei, kerdesei.

*Art&Business nr 1-2, Warszawa 1997, Barbara Wroblewska-Bogon Widzialne I niedotykalne

*Znak Krakow 1998, Jan Michalski Ukrywamy sie na wolnosc (I transformujemy).

*Exit nr 1, Warszawa 1999, Maria Anna Potocka, Transfer Polnocna Nadrenia Westfalia — Polska.

*Polish Artists’Books in the 1990s and Three Libraries, Piotr Rypson, , [in:] Studies in Modern Russian and Polish Culture and Bibliography. Essays in Honor of Wojciech Zalewski, ed. Lazar Fleishman. Stanford Slavic Studies v. 20. Stanford 1999, 314-23

*Ksiazki I Strony Piotr Rypson, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Warszawa 2000

*Przekroj nr 21/2865 Zbylut Grzywacz Rodzina w Bunkrze

*Ha Art wiosna 1(3) 2000, Monika Trzoslo Materia Zycia

*Opcje nr 6(35) 2000, Ralph Rugoff Widzowie potrzebni od zaraz, Joanna Mytkowska Impresja 2000, Adam Szymczyk Robie Scene

*Sztuka Kobiet Galeria Bielska BWA, Bozena Czubak W zmieniaonej roli miejscu plci..

WORK IN COLLECTION;

NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW, Poland

COLLECTION VACANCES BLEUE MARSEILLE, France

THE ALTOS DE CHAVON CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION, Dominikana Republic

CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI, Warsow, Poland

SONJE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS COLLECTION, Korea

MUSEUM BOCHUM, Germany

ZACHETA GALLERY, Warsow, Poland

MUSEUM SZTUKI IN LODZ, Lodz, Poland

ARSENAL GALLERY, Bialystok, Poland

CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART LAZNIA, Gdansk, Poland

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM IN NIEPOLOMICE / POTOCKA GALLERY, Krakow, Poland

TERESA & ANDRZEJ STARMACH COLLECTION, Krakow, Poland

THE BUNKIER SZTUKI, GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION

June 9-July 28, 2001

Audio interviews of each resident artist by Koan Jeff Baysa:

Ksenija Turcic with Koan Jeff Baysa

Marta Deskur with Koan Jeff Baysa

François Bucher with Koan Jeff Baysa

Museum of Mankind : François Bucher

Museum of Mankind is a video installation depicting the statues that stand high on the roof of the Museum of Mankind in London. François Bucher has shot these cornerstones of Western philosophy and politics with a powerful zoom against a twilight blue sky. The hand-held camera endures the stare of the statues, defying immortality. Images are projected in the upper corners of the gallery. Sound is spatially distributed so that the viewer is surrounded by the direct sound of steady London traffic. Less audible selected tunes reach the ear as well. This piece reveals the hidden elements in the architecture that spell out an alphabet of supremacy. Being Latin American on the one hand while having a French father heavily involved with the history of Western thought, Bucher’s work is a continual critical negotiation between two cultural codes. Parallel to this there is a reflection on cinematic language and its metaphorical potential. The shooting of inanimate statues stems from a reflection on Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Le Mépris”. This visual metaphor was previously quoted by Bucher in his video works “Two Essays on Contempt” (2001) and “Twin Murders” (1999).

New Baby : Marta Deskur

In a multimedia installation and web site project, New Baby?, Marta Deskur questions the significance of family today and the conflicting issues this question addresses. As a socio-economic and political investigation, family has always been central to her work. For “Family in New York”, Deskur initially placed an advertisement in the Voice to interview “people who live alone, couples with no children, couples of different race and religion, gay and lesbian couples and singles, pregnant women, women who have terminated their pregnancies, people who have chosen not to have children”. She selected 14 individuals, submitted them to a questionnaire of identical questions dealing with this subject and then photographed them in her studio. The web site that she has created sums up all of this research and invites the viewer to pursue these discussions. Projected on the wall of an enclosed space, viewers are invited to enter one by one a confessional-like-space and interact directly over the web site. On the outside walls, color photographs of the interviewees are displayed in light boxes as a tribute to their physical presence.

Phase : Ksenija Turcic

Ksenija Turcic presents a new multimedia installation, Phase, where she pursues her investigation of emotional space. In this work, she is interested in the communication space between men and women. Motions of communication between two people are likened in her words to “a whirlpool of misunderstandings that circle within an energetic field”. Men are prone to hide their emotions, whereas women tend to scrutinize and elaborate, sometimes to an extreme. Turcic has filmed the face of a man performing familiar daily gestures (e.g. eating, drinking, shaving); the image is in slow motion and inexpressive. The sound of his breathing becomes audible as the viewer approaches the image. On another screen, a 3rd view of a woman’s face is projected. For a second, both images freeze. This moment in time reflects the possibility of a shared space of communication. A soundtrack of inaudible whispering voices of women can be heard. When both images resume motion, this sound disappears.