Does performance art help to change the perception of the urban or museum space? What is the role of context, also the urban one, in the creation of performances nowadays? What does the issue of the line between "personal" and "public" look like in this situation?

We invite you to another meeting within the framework of the Polish-Russian Dialogue cycle at the International Cultural Centre. This time, Natalia Goncharova will give a lecture on Russian performance artists from the second half of the 20th century.

Natalia Goncharova is art historian, curator of contemporary art exhibitions, Head of Exhibition Department the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (http://www.ncca.ru/), researcher of performance art in Poland and Russia, currently a scholarship holder of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding.

Lectures within the Polish-Russian Dialogue cycle at the International Cultural Centre are organized by the ICC in cooperation with the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. They are similar to the debates on the culture of European countries that take place in the "Pod Kruki" room. The subject matter of the series of meetings continued since 2012 concerns contemporary Poland and Russia, with particular emphasis on issues related to literature, culture, history and cultural heritage.

As part of the series, the MCK hosted lectures by, among others Jerzy Bahr, Marietta Chudakova, Alexandr Gavrilov, Hieronim Grala, Viktor Yerofeyev, Olga Irisova, Maksim Krongauz, Alexandr Lipatov, Konstantin Usenko, Valery Panushkin, Peter Pomerantsev, Irina Prokhorov, Oleg Sokolov.