The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead. When Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist, travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it was her first visit to Eastern Europe. She had a remarkable vantage point to observe new formations in old Europe: economic, political, and personal. Fiona gets caught up watching and participating in a culture in change, where people are struggling to live well enough under capitalism and where old ideas are expressed in the extraordinary cluster of public museums she found. This is a travelogue of Poland from street level.
Fiona McGregor
Indelible Ink
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Award.
'For a long time now, when people ask me a favourite Australian author, invariably I think and say Fiona McGregor. There is a gutsiness, a splendour and command of language ... Buy or find out more →
Chemical Palace
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
If music was the soul of a party, concept and preparation the brain, performance the heart, sets the body, then the partygoers themselves were the lifeblood. A dance party was an organism, a planet, a living fiction. It ... Buy or find out more →
Strange Museums
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead. When Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist, travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it... Buy or find out more →