Kontakt Video Klub

The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad

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For the The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which is a joint project of Museum of Modern Art (MSN) and Kontakt Collection, a Video Klub has been inspired by the MSN Warsaw Archives that provide a vast resources available online. The resources include a selection of films from the Filmoteka Muzeum – a collection of nearly 700 films by Polish avant-garde authors, presenting materials on key Polish artists and artistic life since 1945, recorded lectures, meetings and debates combined with a weekly changing selection of films from the Kontakt Collection in Vienna.

For the cynic, the systematic practice of dishonor is invaluable, arming him with resistance to others’ opinions, beliefs, and traditions. To hold out one’s hand, a gesture infamously tied with poverty, of dependence in its most unbearable form, confronts the beggar with themselves as insulted, despised, and humiliated by others. He shuns honours, he is dishonoured.