Interview with Polish woman of the Year 2013
Posted In press 2013
Interview with Agnieszka Kołek,
the Polish woman of the Year and the curator of the Passion for Freedom festival
My first question is, why do you actually want to do things, which politicians are afraid to even mention?
Politicians are afraid to speak about it, they find it uneasy to discuss difficult topics, as addressing such issues might deprive them of potential votes and alienate them in political circles. For me this is easy: I love art and artists. As Ai Weiwei put it, artists are “soul engineers” which is the reason why regimes and demagogues of great utopian ideologies are so much afraid of them. Artists themselves in turn need support because they carry a great burden of responsibility, furthermore, they might be punished for their art even with the death sentence – be it by the government or by a hand of an extremist just as in case of Theo van Gogh’s murder in Holland.
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