Orange Alternative

The Orange Alternative (Polish Pomarańczowa Alternatywa or Narancs Alternativa ) was a political and artistic movement in Poland.

History and Philosophy

The events are aimed at the prohibition of painting slogans on the walls of houses.

The birth of the Orange Alternative was during the student movements of the early eighties in Wroclaw. As founder applies Waldemar Fydrych, history and art history at the University of Breslau studied.

However, the Orange Alternative achieved fame not only through their events. During the second half of the eighties dwarf graffiti obtained fame and success and are a symbol of the movement. The graffiti was painted on color patches daubed on the regime of freedom and anti- government slogans of the Solidarity movement. They were something special that did distract his way from the gray reality during the time of martial law. Painted on the walls of some dozen cities in Poland, exceeded the number of dwarfs the thousands. It is sometimes spoken in this context from the biggest painting exhibition in Poland, considering the fact that she was seen by several million people.

The activities of the Orange Alternative united always in a socio- political dimension with artistic aspects. Ultimately, it was and is their goal to achieve through aesthetic events in individual style at the same freedoms and revamp the social, cultural and political normality. These goals remain in spite of many historic changes timely and important that has occurred as a result of discussions at the Round Table and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Force and originality of the Orange Alternative in its early days was mainly characterized brought that the bourgeois society of his time was in Poland under a deep anesthesia bell. The Orange Alternative was able to devote problems of "res politica " in an ironic and distanced manner.

Art experts provide in their activities determined an influence of Surrealism or Dadaism. In fact, the movement was also inspired by the Dutch Provo movement and the Kabouterbewegung.

There is something " funny " of the Orange Alternative, combined with oppositional logic against the negative reality in which young people in Poland and abroad a chance in the fight against the gray standstill saw in everyday life and see.

Activities and happenings in the 1980s

  • Nebulization of the Rynek - Warsaw, 1985.
  • "Tubes" - Warsaw, 1 April 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 1st, 1987.
  • Leaflets action " Poles are not monkeys and have their style " - Warsaw, October 1st 1987.
  • Military maneuvers " melon in mayonnaise " ( Army Day ) - Warsaw, October 7 1987.
  • "Distribution of toilet paper - Part 2 " - Warsaw, October 15, 1987.
  • Eve of the October Revolution - Warsaw, November 6, 1987.
  • Nikoloaktion - Warsaw, December 8, 1987.
  • Carnival - Warsaw, 16 and 24 February 1988.
  • Day of the employee's intelligence: "On Guard yourself! " - Warsaw, 1 March 1988.
  • International Women's Day: "No to Pershing Yes to Bind! " - Warsaw, March 8, 1988.
  • Revolution of Dwarves - Warsaw, June 1 1988.
  • Children: "Away with Little Red Riding Hood " - Lodz, June 1 1988.
  • Choice Picnic - Warsaw, June 19, 1988.
  • " Long live the eternal brother help " - Snow Mountain ( Sudeten ) 19 August, 1988.
  • "Not without the December " - Warsaw, October 7 1988.
  • Cottage on the Swidnicka - Warsaw 21 October, 1988.
  • Anniversary of the great revolution - Warsaw and Lodz, 6 and 7 November 1988.
  • " The Great seizing" - Warsaw, November 29, 1988.
  • Anniversary of the war: "Help the police - beat yourself " - December 13, 1988.
  • The invisible army or conspiracy on Everything - Warsaw, 20 January 1989.
  • " Carnival " - Warsaw, February 1989.
  • " All right " - Lodz, February 15, 1989.
  • " The Pollock can do it " - Warsaw, February 24, 1989.
  • " Whipping " - Lodz, February 24, 1989.
  • "Battle of the buttons and eyelets " - Lublin, March 1989.
  • "The progress is coming" - the Lublin 16 March, 1989.
  • " On the trail of discarded party cards " - Lodz, March 21, 1989.
  • Spring Festival - Warsaw, March 22, 1989.
  • " Poverty thresh " - Lodz, May 21. 1989.
  • "We forge the bond of understanding" - Lublin, 1 May 1989.
  • " Peace Race - Armor journey " - Lodz, May 10, 1989.
  • Election campaign meeting with Gargamel - Lublin, 1st June 1989.
  • " Breakfast on the sidewalk " - Lublin, June 3, 1989.
  • Election campaign " Orange or Red Major General " - Warsaw, in early June 1989.
  • " Hyde Park " - Lodz, June 5, 1989.
  • The Round Table - Spring 1989.
  • , "15 clock in the afternoon " - Warsaw, 7 October 1989.
  • Unveiling of the monument Bierut - Lublin, January 26, 1990.
  • "The government planed the stupid " - Lodz 20 March, 1990.
  • " Coronation of the monuments " - Warsaw, May 2, 1990.

Recent exhibitions and promotions

  • 2001: "Power to savor "
  • 2001: " Żywoty Mężów Pomarańczowych " ( life stories of courageous members of Orange ), Major Waldemar Fydrych, publishing " Pomarańczowa Alternatywa " ( " Orange Alternative " publisher)
  • 2002: Major Waldemar Fydrych a candidate for the office of mayor of Warsaw
  • 2003-2004: events under the motto " stereotypes " in France: Arras, Paris, Lille, Metz and Nancy
  • 2004: Orange Alternative is an active participant Orange Revolution in Ukraine with events in Lvov (Lviv ), Tarnopol ( Ternopil ), Winnicia ( Vinnitsya ) and Kiev in part.
  • 2005: exhibition to the Orange theme in the European Parliament in Brussels
  • 2005: exhibition on the theme of the Orange Alternative in Ukraine, including the " Academy Kijowsko - Mohylańska " in Kiev
  • 2006: nomination of " idiots and dwarves " in Warsaw.
  • 2007: Happening series " education jerks " from September 14 to October 21 in Warsaw as a counterpoint to the early parliamentary elections.
  • 2007: Day of the intelligence officials: "If you want a cheap state - hear yourself from " - September 18, Warsaw.
  • 2009: traveling exhibition " Zwergenaufstand - Berlin -Dresden -Warsaw - A Common Cause " on the occasion of 20 years of free elections in Poland, among others in spring in Vienna at the Polish Institute of workshops and happening " Occident in dwarf hand " and in autumn in Berlin Happening " democratic road First Cabaret".
  • 2010: opening an embassy in Bunte Republik Neustadt ( Dresden) on the occasion of the 20 -year celebrations.

About Orange Revolution arose four films. Last of the Orange Alternative in the Orange Revolution.

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