McMaster's School of the Arts will host international artist Artur Tajber, from Cracow, Poland from March 7-11.

Tajber will present a public lecture at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 in the McMaster Museum of Art. He also will create a special performance and video presentation at Transit Gallery on Locke Street in Hamilton. The performance is scheduled for Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. These events are free and open to the public.

Tajber's art is not restricted by any media or discipline divisions. He is interested in conceptual design and theory of art. Since the mid 1970s Tajber has been engaged in performance art, but is still working with other media too – multi-media installation, object art, audio/video projects, and in his own words, he “is also writing, singing and dancing sometimes (not too often)”. From the time of Marshal Law (1982), Tajber has been teaching at the Cracowian Academy of Fine Art. Presently he is a professor and director of the Studio for Visual Arts at the Faculty of Industrial Design, and director of the Interfaculty Studio for Intermedia.

From the beginning of 1980 he has also worked as freelance curator and art organizer: he was founder and director of GT Gallery in Krakow (1986-1989), director of the Pryzmat Gallery in Krakow (1990-1993), is co-founder of Fort Sztuki Association, co-organizer of Fort Sztuki Festivals, author and curator of Action program (dedicated to performance art) at Bunkier Sztuki, municipal gallery in Cracow (1996-today) instigator, curator etc. of performance festivals and presentations in Cracow, Norway, Ireland, Germany and Quebec.

Tajber's visit to McMaster has been the result of a collaboration between the School of the Arts, the Centre for Leadership in Learning through a Teaching and Learning Project Fund, the Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, Hamilton Artists Inc., McMaster Museum of Art, Transit Gallery, and the International School of Loose Affiliations.