Orange alternative
The Orange Alternative (Polish: Pomarańczowa Alternatywa or Narancs Alternativa ) was a political-artistic movement in Poland .
History and philosophy
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PRECZ Z UPAŁAMI - End of the Heat or End of the Batons , Happening in Wrocław , July 1988 Word games on the undershirt create slogans in the spirit of the event participants. If you remove the “u” from “precz z upałami”, the slogan changes from “End of the heat (upałami)” to “End of the batons (pałami)”. The events are directed against the ban on painting slogans on house walls. |
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The orange alternative was born during the student movements in Wroclaw in the early 1980s . The founder is Waldemar Fydrych , who studied history and art history at the University of Wroclaw.
The Orange Alternative was not only well known through its events. During the second half of the 1980s, dwarf graffiti gained fame and fame and became a symbol of the movement. The graffiti was painted over patches of color that the regime painted over freedom and anti-government slogans of the Solidarność movement. They were something special that, in its own way, knew how to distract from the gray reality during the war. Painted on the walls of several dozen cities in Poland , the number of dwarfs exceeded a thousand. Occasionally in this context it is referred to as the largest painting exhibition in Poland, considering the fact that it was seen by a few million people.
The activities of the Orange Alternative always combined a socio-political dimension with artistic aspects. Ultimately, it was and is their goal to gain freedom through aesthetic events in an individual style and at the same time to turn social, cultural and political normality inside out. These goals remain topical and important despite the many historical changes that occurred as a result of the round table discussions and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In its early days, the Orangen Alternative was given strength and originality mainly by the fact that civil society in Poland was under a deep anesthesia at the time. The Orange Alternative was able to devote itself to problems of the “res politica” in an ironic and detached way.
Art connoisseurs notice an influence of Surrealism or Dadaism in their activities . In fact, the movement was also inspired by the Dutch Provo movement and the Kabouter movement.
There is something “funny” about the orange alternative, combined with oppositional logic against the negative reality in which young people in Poland and abroad saw and see an opportunity in the fight against the gray stagnation in everyday life.
Actions and happenings in the 1980s
- Fogging of Rynek - Warsaw, 1985.
- "Tubes" - Warsaw, April 1, 1986.
- “Millipede” happening - Warsaw, April 1, 1987.
- Magic auction (first hat distribution) - Warsaw, June 1, 1987.
- Away with the heat - Warsaw, July 1, 1987.
- Day of Peace - Warsaw, September 1, 1987.
- Flyer campaign “Poles are not monkeys, they have their style” - Warsaw, October 1, 1987.
- Military maneuvers “Melon in Mayonnaise” (Army Day) - Warsaw, October 7, 1987.
- “Toilet Paper Distribution - Part 2” - Warsaw, October 15, 1987.
- Eve of the October Revolution - Warsaw, November 6, 1987.
- Nicholas Action - Warsaw, December 8th, 1987.
- Carnival - Warsaw, February 16 and 24, 1988.
- Secret Service Worker Day: “Watch Yourself!” - Warsaw, March 1, 1988.
- International Women's Day: “No to Pershings! Yes to bind! ”- Warsaw, March 8, 1988.
- Revolution of the Dwarfs - Warsaw, June 1st, 1988.
- Children's day: "Away with Little Red Riding Hood" - Lodz, June 1st, 1988.
- Election picnic - Warsaw, June 19, 1988.
- "Eternal live the brotherly aid" - Schneekoppe (Sudeten), August 19, 1988.
- “Not without December” - Warsaw, October 7, 1988.
- Cottage on the Swidnicka - Warsaw, October 21, 1988.
- Anniversary of the Great Revolution - Warsaw and Lodz, November 6th and 7th, 1988.
- “Big Feast” - Warsaw, November 29, 1988.
- Anniversary of the state of war: "Help the militia - beat yourself" - December 13, 1988.
- The invisible army or conspiracy over everything - Warsaw, January 20, 1989.
- “Carnival” - Warsaw, February 1989.
- “All right” - Lodz, February 15, 1989.
- “Pollock can do it” - Warsaw, February 24, 1989.
- "Foaming" - Lodz, February 24, 1989.
- “Battle of Buttons and Eyelets” - Lublin, March 1989.
- “Progress is coming” - Lublin, March 16, 1989.
- “On the trail of discarded party ID cards” - Lodz, March 21, 1989.
- Spring Festival - Warsaw, March 22, 1989.
- “Threshing poverty” - Lodz, April 21, 1989.
- "We tie the bond of understanding" - Lublin, May 1, 1989.
- “Peace drive - armament drive” - Lodz, May 10, 1989.
- Election meeting with Gargamel - Lublin, June 1, 1989.
- “Breakfast on the sidewalk” - Lublin, June 3, 1989.
- “Orange Major or Red General” election campaign - Warsaw, early June 1989.
- “Hyde Park” - Lodz, June 5, 1989.
- The Round Table - Spring 1989.
- “3 p.m.” - Warsaw, October 7, 1989.
- Unveiling of the Bierut monument - Lublin, January 26, 1990.
- “The government is pounding the stupid” - Lodz, March 20, 1990.
- “The Crowning of Monuments” - Warsaw, May 2, 1990.
Recent exhibitions and promotions
- 2001: "Enjoying Power"
- 2001: “In the underground” - Gorzów Wielkopolski
- 2001: "Żywoty Mężów Pomarańczowych" (Life stories of courageous Orange members), Major Waldemar Fydrych , Publishing House "Pomarańczowa Alternatywa" ("Orange Alternative" Publishing House)
- 2002: Major Waldemar Fydrych runs for the office of mayor of Warsaw
- 2003 to 2004: Stereotypical events in France: Arras, Paris, Lille, Metz and Nancy
- 2004: Orange Alternative takes an active part in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine with events in Lviv (Lemberg), Ternopil (Tarnopol), Vinnytsia and Kiev.
- 2005: Exhibition on Orange in the European Parliament in Brussels
- 2005: Exhibition on the subject of Orange Alternative in Ukraine , among others at the "Akademie Kijowsko-Mohylańska" in Kiev
- 2006: candidacy of the "idiots and dwarfs" in Warsaw.
- 2007: Happening series “Bildungsheinis” from September 14th to October 21st in Warsaw as a counterpoint to the early parliamentary elections.
- 2007: Day of the Secret Service Worker: “If you want a cheap state - listen to yourself” - September 18th, Warsaw.
- 2009: Traveling exhibition "Dwarf uprising - Berlin-Dresden-Warsaw - Common cause" on the occasion of 20 years of free elections in Poland a. a. in spring in Vienna at the Polish Institute with workshops and happening "Abendland in Zwergenhand" and in autumn in Berlin with happening "First street democratic cabaret".
- 2010: Opening of an embassy in the Bunte Republik Neustadt ( Dresden ) on the occasion of the 20th anniversary celebrations.
Four films were made on the subject of the Orange Revolution. Most recently about the Orange Alternative in the Orange Revolution.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Ellerbrock: Visit to Breslau: City of the hidden dwarfs . In Spiegel Online . May 28, 2012.
- ^ Event announcement Polish Institute Vienna
literature
- The Orange Alternative - The Revolution of the Dwarfs. (Polish, German, English). Warsaw 2008, ISBN 978-83-926511-4-7 .
Web links
- http://www.pomaranczowa-alternatywa.org/ Orange Alternative - Official website