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An exhibition and publication about our late friend
Curated and edited by Joanna Warsza and Sina Najafi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Cabinet<\/strong><\/a>, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn 
Exhibition dates: 11 October \u2013 6 November 2022 
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12\u20136 pm, and by appointment 
Opening: Tuesday, 11 October, 6\u20139 pm

Remarks by the curators at 7 pm. Simon Leung and Jim Fletcher will perform Leung\u2019s <\/em>My friend, the War at 7:30 pm.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylv\u00e8re got drunk and teased Diego, something about politics, and Diego got mad and tossed his drink in Sylv\u00e8re\u2019s face. And Warren Niesluchowski was there, and John and Anya. … Warren\u2019s a friend, an artworld personality and critic, a smart and cultivated guy. … Warren knows everyone in the artworld.<\/em>
\u2014Chris Kraus, I Love Dick<\/em>, 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren Nies\u0142uchowski (1946\u20132019), one of the most charismatic and eccentric figures in the art world, was many things at once: an exhilarating conversationalist, a polymath, an attentive companion of artists, a polyglot translator, a networker without status, a walking bibliography, and a dandy, to name a few. And from 2003 till the end of his life, he had no home of his own, instead traveling from city to city to live as the guest of others, coming and going on his own inexplicable schedule. He lived\u2014as he himself used to say, paraphrasing Derrida\u2014the life of a \u201cguest, host, ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition and the publication focus on Nies\u0142uchowski\u2019s homeless years, and feature his email correspondence with close friends, many of whom are remarkable artists and intellectuals in their own right; a number of artworks made about, or in partnership with, Nies\u0142uchowski; and documentation of his travels. The emails are full of erudition, congeniality, and translinguistic twists, but are also marked by the emotional burden of being perpetually on the road. They bear witness to his role as a generous companion to others and to the inheritance of someone who was an ontological wanderer by birth and by choice, permanently looking for what he called \u201can adoption by an imaginary family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some sense, Nies\u0142uchowski inherited his fundamental sense of dislocation. He was born Jerzy, later George or \u201cJe\u017c,\u201dto Polish parents in 1946 in a displaced persons camp near Munich. Five years later, his family emigrated to the United States, where they found themselves in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1968, after being drafted to serve in Vietnam, George deserted the army and fled the country for Paris. There, a lucky encounter with a friendly Englishman named Warren who loaned him his passport meant that he could continue to evade the US government. Before long, George\u2014now Warren, after placing his own photo in the British passport\u2014had joined the legendary Bread and Puppet theater company on their trip to Iran. His drive toward a peripatetic existence was to find its fullest expression in the last sixteen years of his life, after he gave up his New York apartment and began to live as a perpetual guest of friends and acquaintances in North America and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be said that his was not, other than at beginning of his life, a forced migration under the inhuman circumstances that many people on the planet are experiencing today. Nies\u0142uchowski had the privilege of deciding to be \u201cout of place,\u201d to avoid any defined role, and to inhabit the periphery of social norms. His life was one of strategic exile and ontological homelessness in which he felt at home everywhere, and nowhere. The emails, artworks, and essays gathered here offer a complex picture of someone who led a radical, transcultural, and transnational existence in which art and life were no longer distinguishable from one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With correspondence and contributions from:
Adam Szymczyk
Agnieszka Taborska and Marcin Gi\u017cycki
Alexander Nagel<\/strong><\/a> and Amelia Saul
Amanda Trager and Erik Moskowitz
Andre Mirabelli and Jackie Pine
Andrzej Przywara
Barry Curtis and Claire Pajaczkowska
Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski
Bettina Funcke
Bruno Pajaczkowski
Chloe Piene<\/a> <\/strong>
Cristina G\u00f3mez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer
Dominik Lejman 
Elka Krajewska
Eustachy Kossakowski 
Hannah Hurtzig
Jeff Preiss
Joan Jonas
Joanna Klass
Joanna Mytkowska
Joanna Warsza
Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi 
Katarzyna Szotkowska-Beylin 
Katy Bentall
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Lisa Blas and Thierry de Duve
Mary Nies\u0142uchowska
Michael Taussig<\/strong><\/a> 
Milada \u015alizi\u0144ska
Pawe\u0142 Althamer
Pierre Bismuth
Raymond Pettibon
Rebecca Quaytman
Richard Wentworth
Roger Malbert 
Seton Smith
Simon Leung
Sina Najafi<\/a> <\/strong>
Yvette Mattern
Zuzanna Janin
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier versions of this exhibition were on view at:
Cabinet Berlin<\/strong><\/a> (11 October \u2013 14 November 2020)
Foksal Gallery Foundation<\/strong><\/a>, Warsaw (4 December 2020 \u2013 12 January 2021)
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art<\/strong><\/a>, Riga (3 September \u2013 31 October 2021)

The New York iteration of the exhibition has been made possible with generous support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York; the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw; and the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw. The accompanying book is co-published by Cabinet and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. With additional thanks to J\u00f3zefina Ch\u0119tko, who designed the book and exhibition graphics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simon Leung and Jim Fletcher will perform Leung\u2019s My friend, the War at 7:30 pm.\nSylv\u00e8re got drunk and teased Diego, something about politics, and Diego got mad and tossed his drink in Sylv\u00e8re\u2019s face. And Warren Niesluchowski was there, and John and Anya. ... Warren\u2019s a friend, an artworld personality and critic, a smart and cultivated guy. ... Warren knows everyone in the artworld.\u2014Chris Kraus, I Love Dick, 1997\nWarren Nies\u0142uchowski (1946\u20132019), one of the most charismatic and eccentric figures in the art world, was many things at once: an exhilarating conversationalist, a polymath, an attentive companion of artists, a polyglot translator, a networker without status, a walking bibliography, and a dandy, to name a few. And from 2003 till the end of his life, he had no home of his own, instead traveling from city to city to live as the guest of others, coming and going on his own inexplicable schedule. He lived\u2014as he himself used to say, paraphrasing Derrida\u2014the life of a \u201cguest, host, ghost.\u201d\nThe exhibition and the publication focus on Nies\u0142uchowski\u2019s homeless years, and feature his email correspondence with close friends, many of whom are remarkable artists and intellectuals in their own right; a number of artworks made about, or in partnership with, Nies\u0142uchowski; and documentation of his travels. The emails are full of erudition, congeniality, and translinguistic twists, but are also marked by the emotional burden of being perpetually on the road. They bear witness to his role as a generous companion to others and to the inheritance of someone who was an ontological wanderer by birth and by choice, permanently looking for what he called \u201can adoption by an imaginary family.\u201d\nIn some sense, Nies\u0142uchowski inherited his fundamental sense of dislocation. He was born Jerzy, later George or \u201cJe\u017c,\u201dto Polish parents in 1946 in a displaced persons camp near Munich. Five years later, his family emigrated to the United States, where they found themselves in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1968, after being drafted to serve in Vietnam, George deserted the army and fled the country for Paris. There, a lucky encounter with a friendly Englishman named Warren who loaned him his passport meant that he could continue to evade the US government. Before long, George\u2014now Warren, after placing his own photo in the British passport\u2014had joined the legendary Bread and Puppet theater company on their trip to Iran. His drive toward a peripatetic existence was to find its fullest expression in the last sixteen years of his life, after he gave up his New York apartment and began to live as a perpetual guest of friends and acquaintances in North America and Europe.\nIt should be said that his was not, other than at beginning of his life, a forced migration under the inhuman circumstances that many people on the planet are experiencing today. Nies\u0142uchowski had the privilege of deciding to be \u201cout of place,\u201d to avoid any defined role, and to inhabit the periphery of social norms. His life was one of strategic exile and ontological homelessness in which he felt at home everywhere, and nowhere. The emails, artworks, and essays gathered here offer a complex picture of someone who led a radical, transcultural, and transnational existence in which art and life were no longer distinguishable from one another.\nWith correspondence and contributions from:Adam SzymczykAgnieszka Taborska and Marcin Gi\u017cyckiAlexander Nagel and Amelia SaulAmanda Trager and Erik MoskowitzAndre Mirabelli and Jackie PineAndrzej PrzywaraBarry Curtis and Claire PajaczkowskaBarry Schwabsky and Carol SzymanskiBettina FunckeBruno PajaczkowskiChloe Piene Cristina G\u00f3mez Barrio and Wolfgang MayerDominik Lejman Elka KrajewskaEustachy Kossakowski Hannah HurtzigJeff PreissJoan JonasJoanna KlassJoanna MytkowskaJoanna WarszaKasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi Katarzyna Szotkowska-Beylin Katy BentallKrzysztof WodiczkoLisa Blas and Thierry de DuveMary Nies\u0142uchowskaMichael Taussig Milada \u015alizi\u0144skaPawe\u0142 AlthamerPierre BismuthRaymond PettibonRebecca QuaytmanRichard WentworthRoger Malbert Seton SmithSimon LeungSina Najafi Yvette MatternZuzanna Janin\nEarlier versions of this exhibition were on view at:Cabinet Berlin (11 October \u2013 14 November 2020)Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (4 December 2020 \u2013 12 January 2021)Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (3 September \u2013 31 October 2021)The New York iteration of the exhibition has been made possible with generous support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York; the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw; and the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw. The accompanying book is co-published by Cabinet and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. With additional thanks to J\u00f3zefina Ch\u0119tko, who designed the book and exhibition graphics."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2022\/09\/20\/exhibition-and-warren-niesluchowski-was-there-guest-host-ghost\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-2.16.22-PM.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-2.16.22-PM.png","width":1198,"height":624},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2022\/09\/20\/exhibition-and-warren-niesluchowski-was-there-guest-host-ghost\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Exhibition 'And Warren Nies\u0142uchowski Was There: Guest, Host, Ghost’"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/04d40cd80c1729a7f440613bee4073b6","name":"klaudia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"klaudia"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/lukasz.sienkiewicz@msz.gov.pl"],"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}