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One of the crucial differences between this year’s and previous editions of the Photomonth in Krakow Festival is its literary dimension – all the more important because without it the works we’re presenting wouldn’t exist. Remember that the curators of the Main Programme of MFK 2011, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, invited 23 authors who write fiction, nonfiction, and even books on the history of medicine to create fictitious artistic biographies. They were: Brown & Bri, David Campany, Clare Carolin, Brian DiUon, Alexander Garcia Duttmann, Ekow Eshun, Ĺukasz Gorczyca & Ĺukasz Ronduda, Avery Gordon, John Haskell, Jennifer Higgie, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Chris Mullen, Fernando Pessoa, Adrian Rifkin, Gemma Sieff, Karolina Sulej, Lynne Tillman, Sean OToole, Helen de Witt, lvan Vladislavic, Brad Zellar Then, inhabiting the characters invented by the writers, the invited artists (photographers, painters, sculptors and creators of installations, using multi-media) were invited to create works that resulted from withdrawing from their own biography and experience and clothing themselves in the fictitious one. The CVs of the non-existent artists – the Aliases – are waiting for you in the exhibitions, encouraging you to participate in our game. If, however, you would like to see the fictitious biographies, personalities, characters and experience of the imaginary artists whose works have been filling Krakow’s galleries for the last fortnight, or if you feel that you need more information to identify the real artists – the real creators of the exhibitions – take a look at the book Alias. In it you will find complete versions of the Alias biographies and reproductions of works they created. This year’s Alias is not a festival catalogue in the traditional sense of the word: as well as a guide to the MFK 2011 Main Program, it is also a literary publication with an astonishing diversity of style and unbridled imagination from the artists invited to cooperate. The whole is complemented by an exclusive supplement – a guide to selected applications of the heteronym strategy in art history, which at the same time is a comment on the Alias. A Survey exhibition presented at the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery.
Alias is published in two separate languages versions, Polish and English, and can be found easily at the festival office for Photomonth in Krakow 2011 at the Camelot Gallery at ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17.
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