This weekend, we will witness the opening of the 10th OPEN CITY Festival in the Public Space. In just a few days period, the city will welcome 12 installations prepared by artists having strong bonds with Lublin. Their artistic intent and approach to the city will be complemented by confidentiality, familiarity, domestication, the perspective of a responsible citizen and a good neighbour, by an intimate closeness and nostalgia, local patriotism and Eastern sentiments. The artists will make their personal contributions to the polyphonic texture of the city. They will also introduce distance, reflective mood and perceptiveness stemming from intimate relationship of the citizens with the public space.
This year, the guiding idea of the festival is reciprocity. The artists are going to tell the stories about difficult reciprocity, about interdependencies leading to non-obvious configurations of the “natives” and “aliens”, “locals” and “tourists”, “visitors” and “residents”.
By inviting artists to bring their installations to life, organizers assume that the main focus of a reflection will dwell on a walking man looking around. They will explore different places, caring for their identity and hoping that locations chosen by the artists and their works will make the passersby slow down, stop, think and ask questions.
The festival will be officially opened on Friday 7th September, at 5 p.m. The curatorial tour will start in front of the Lublin Castle.
