Tuesday 27 June at 7pm | The artist Marcin Dudek in conversation with Juliet Jacques, a writer, filmmaker, broadcaster and Centre Forward for Clapton Community FC, will discuss Dudek's artistic practice and research that shaped his solo show NEOPLAN. The conversation will centre on the artist's autobiographical experiences as a former member of a football hooligan firm, and how this informs his art making, examining themes of community, spectacle and crowd psychology.
About Marcin Dudek
Marcin Dudek (b. 1979, Krakow, Poland) explores the politics of identity and space, conflating hooliganism, memory and the architecture of social experience. A dialogue with his own past forms this discussion, retracing teenage experiences as a member of an infamously violent Krakow football fanclub. Dudek’s practice spans performance, sculpture, installation and painting. He repurposes salvaged materials to interrogate society’s inseparable relationship to spectacle, whilst seeking an artistic vocabulary for fragmented memory, violence and trauma. His work is included in international collections such as MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania. Recent solo exhibitions include The Group, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Ultraskraina, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France (2021); The Crowd Man, MWW Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland (2019); and The Lure of the Arena, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2019). Marcin Dudek lives and works in Brussels.
About Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques (b. 1981, Redhill, Surrey) is a writer, filmmaker, broadcaster and academic based in London. She has published five books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015), the short story collection Variations (2021), Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (2022), and a novella, Monaco (2023). Her fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian (including her ‘Transgender Journey’ column, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011), New York Times, Frieze, London Review of Books and many other publications; her short films have screened in galleries and festivals across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere, hosted the arts discussion programme Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, and is a co-host of Novara FM. She plays football for Clapton Community FC and Surrey.
