Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
MDM
General material designation
- Moving images
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Eric Bednarski
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MS-3-46, 2005-001
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
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2005 (Creation)
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Physical description
1 videocassette : VHS. - 1 videocassette : Betacam SP. - 2 discs (mp4)
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Archival description area
Name of creator
(1978-)
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of a video recording by Eric Bednarski entitled "MDM". MDM explores the relationship between architecture and ideology by focusing on one Warsaw neighbourhood. The Marszalkowska housing district was one of the first and most famous of Poland’s 1950s socialist-realist housing developments. Conceived on a monumental scale as a model of socialist planning and an architectural show-piece for the new Soviet-Backed Communist regime, it rose up from the ruins of a city almost completely destroyed in WWII. Architects, planners and urban and cultural historians evoke the controversies surrounding MDM’s conception and construction. They examine the changing meanings that have attached to it over the years, and its place in the Warsaw of today.
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- English
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Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Video can be viewed at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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Copyright is held by the artist.