LOKAL_30: We Would Like You To Know That We Are Not Them

RSA Finlay Room & Library

Free entry

LOKAL_30: WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT THEM

Artists Films from lokal_30_Warszawa_London

Film works by emerging and established artists from lokal_30, a Warsaw-based artist studio/project space, highlighting the diversity of artist-made films in Poland today. Includes work by Anna Baumgart, Zuzanna Janin, Tomasz Kozak, Norman Leto, Elodie Pong, Karol Radiziszewski, Jozef Robakowski and Jasmina Wojcik. This exhibition is part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2009.

lokal_30 is a project space for contemporary art, performance and panel discussions located in a former artists' studio in a pre-war house at Foksal street in Warsaw and has been open to the public since 2003 as an open artist studio and since 2005 as a project space. lokal_30 supports all efforts that serve art, artists and the creation of all sorts of new projects: one-off events, works-in-progress, performances, actions, socially involved initiatives, meetings and discussions which focus on the presentation and promotion of video art in the lokal_30 environment. To find out more please check their website - www.lokal30.pl

lokal_30 at The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture is a part of POLSKA! YEAR. POLSKA! YEAR comprises over 200 projects presenting the most interesting achievements of Polish culture to the UK audience. POLSKA! YEAR is a joint initiative by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The cultural programme is coordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which is responsible for the promotion of Polish culture abroad.

To find out more visit www.PolskaYear.pl