Dear readers of this blog:)
decided to make public the facts about the competition, the director of the Bunker of Art, because I participated in it and it was not I reported that to date the elements of the competition, which has known, have been blessed with a classification.
In Poland since 2001, the law on access to public information, but if you're not a national expert in various legal kruczkach and you have your own lawyer, it is certainly not wywalczysz right to be informed about the progress of such contests for the directors of cultural institutions.
Anyway, I want to write about what concerns me in terms of competition for the director of the Bunker Art. From what I know, the selection board is prohibited from talking about the same competition.
So many people were surprised, therefore, the conclusion of the organizer among the requirements for a future Director of the burden of proving the 3-year experience at a senior level. As the candidate waited for a clear interpretation of the organizers of the competition - what I really mean those 3 years.
digression here I'll just add that by cooperating with me lawyer, the notice of competition was worded as if the City of Krakow - the organizer of the Bunker Art - sought expert legal kruczkach administrator, not a manager, an expert in the management of cultural institutions.
wrote with Martha Deskur letter to the Department of Culture in Krakow with the request for interpretation of explicit requirements in the notice of contest director. We had in mind primarily these unfortunate three years in a management position (which, incidentally, in the previous contest, whose prize was Maria Anna Potocka, it was not), and similarly dangerous and vague wording as fluent in any foreign language (it could therefore be checked by a professional English translator, but also by the employee checked the Russian Department of Culture).
The Committee received a letter that Mr. Turlejski response, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and National Heritage, Office of the City of Krakow. In his letter, Mr Turlejska stated that three years in a managerial capacity and experience as a curator of exhibitions and other cultural events.
Unfortunately in the same competition, it turned out that the City of Krakow did not want to have as a director of the Bunker person who is a practitioner in the art world: he wants to have someone approve the city attorney. That lawyer just sat over the papers of candidates by assessing what is suitable. The lawyer withdrew my papers, because for many years I was a volunteer carrying out the duties of the Head of Art in the Literary Quarterly "Borderlands" and - as it turned out - according to the law of 2003 (a volunteer) is not a benefit, therefore, have a formal pracy.Tak write certificate of employment - as a manager just anything - is essential. Thus it is sitting on motions and city attorney has all the nuances in the nose. A lawyer needs to get the document, otherwise the candidate drops out and Mr. Filip Berkowicz, Chairman The Competition Commission, it is confirmed.
Hence, therefore, my conclusion: action in favor of valuing the work of curators. I wrote about this many times and it is indeed a pressing need. I would add only that as a citizen who pays taxes to the Municipality of Krakow, so therefore also on the culture, pay for anything - because the interpretations are indeed a lawyer, in practice, not worth much.
In addition, after my application was rejected (and I had prepared a comprehensive vision of the gallery Art Bunker - about which no one asked me), we found that in general the whole contest was unresolved and will probably be announced again, unless the President Majchrowski chooses not to nominate its own candidate. I wonder who.
probably will not start a new contest, I prefer to spend their energy on creating their own projects and not on:
first Mr. Stanislaw Tabisz convincing that the Bunker of Art will exhibit the Cracow ZPAP
second fight with the city attorney Krakow, the curatorial and management experience since 1993, and found no corresponding entry in the certificate of employment, counts
third participate in attempts to prove that I do not know the legal kruczkach if they decided whether someone is suitable for the director or not.
But saddest of all is the organizer dezynwoltura Bunker of Art, Municipality of Krakow, in the treatment of this institution. With every day life in abeyance, without the director, the situation of the gallery, where I have the pleasure to work with - and be the author of many high-profile events in her realized - is deteriorating. I am writing about it caused the organization and responsibility for decision-making concerned about congestion, which reigns around her. Already at this moment is in a deplorable state in many respects. Every day of waiting the new competition, the situation worsens. Let me remind you that the City announced a very fast Announcement of a competition, after the departure of Mary Anne Potocka to built the museum, which gave the name Mocak - in February this year. From the unrealized promises of one town was not accounted for, and the Gallery of okrojonym zipi barely 30% compared to the previous one, does it not very abundant in the city grant, the year. Not being able to plan a long-distance moves, including a comprehensive fundraising.
Do we have therefore opportunity to contest and choose a competent professional sound - with a vision of reform of the institution and make it a live center of new art? (A longer Today you can see that next year will be lost for the Bunker). I would like to believe that, yes, but alas, my faith is not supported in reality.
