Black Mirror

Photoinstallation in public place within the project: Make a stop for art / Postój ze Sztuką, by Galleria Tarasin, Kalisz, Poland, 2019.

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Every day is like Sunday / Każdy Dzień jest jak Niedziela

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Online project: Rooms for Anxiety 

by GGM Gdansk City Gallery.

Dates: May 4-25, 2020

Artists: Tomasz Armada, Przemek Branas, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Zuzanna Czebatul, Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas, C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska, Honorata Martin, Bianka Rolando, Diana & Kordian Rönnberg, Adam & Anka Witkowscy
Curators: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak, Andrzej Zagrobelny

Graphic identification: Sebulec + Marcel Kaczmarek
Sound: Natural Transformations

MOVIE DESCRIPTION

“The film depicts life during the pandemic from the point of view of newly-minted parents living in Sweden, where the quarantine regulations are not as strict as in Poland. The soundtrack consists of our story told to the accompaniment of the second part of Edvard Grieg’s piano concert in A minor. The images show a stroll with a pram through the picturesque town of Kungsbacka, where we live. Grieg’s orchestra performance never reaches the piano part; it is discreetly looped like the routine of parental “quarantine”. The camera keeps a safe distance from the figures in the film, which prevents the viewer from catching the virus, because everyone can be a hidden spreader and even your computer screen and installed McAfee software may not offer sufficient protection. With clear conscience we therefore invite everyone suffering from a deficit of art to watch our documentarily disinfected reflections”.

The Room for Anxiety project asks how we cope in the new time, seeking to collect a visual story to be stored in an archive. A seemingly trivial reality may transform into a fascinating image and unique documentation of history. The artists participating in the project invite us to their homes-studios for a screening at the cinema of life.

ROOMS FOR ANXIETY / DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

It makes no sense to write about what is happening right now – everybody is perfectly aware. The hail of information hits us all // particles of information cover every surface.

 

The new masked reality, its hands clad in plastic gloves, awaits us at the distance of two metres, instructing us through a loudspeaker to cope in an intelligent way. It turns out that despite the excess of apps, software and screens, the hitherto valid model of social behaviour fails to work efficiently. It has not yet managed to master the new reality.

 

We used to complain about the lack of time, while taking care of our mindfulness. Today, we often have too much time, and it is this surplus that becomes an anxiety-inducing factor. Taking breaks from following the pandemic news, engaging in pleasant activities, and attempting to stick to a daily routine – these are some of the ways of coping with the invisible threat, as if from the world of fantasy, which allegedly seeks to attack our bodies every single day. Mindfulness in a pandemic era? Confined to our homes, we redefine the functionality of their rooms. Rooms become shelters, targets, workplaces, sites of recreation, conflicts and pleasures. COVID-19 has caught us all, we can sense its existence with every cell of our bodies fatigued by a strange state of suspension.

 

Knock knock! Who’s there? Lockdown.

 

The world control centre has landed in the room, carrying a burden of meanings, transforming the meaning of space from one day to another. Embedded in different spaces, in distant corners of the world there are rooms, houses, garden plots, shelters – with you inside. You can hear the words “stay at home” repeated like a mantra. You stay, oftentimes discovering in your home an immense creative potential. Leggings that’ll last beyond lockdown.

 

Intriguing are the times in which we live.

 

The Room for Anxiety project asks how we cope in the new time, seeking to collect a visual story to be stored in an archive. A seemingly trivial reality may transform into a fascinating image and unique documentation of history. The artists participating in the project invite us to their homes-studios for a screening at the cinema of life.

Calendar:

4.05  Przemek Branas → https://vimeo.com/414682289
6.05  Ania i Adam Witkowscy → https://vimeo.com/415416074
8.05  Tomasz Armada → https://vimeo.com/416239120 
11.05  Diana i Kordian Rönnberg → https://vimeo.com/417091273
13.05  Honorata Martin → https://vimeo.com/417933763
15.05  Agnieszka Brzeżańska → https://vimeo.com/418781981 
18.05  Zuzanna Czebatul → https://vimeo.com/419841124 
20.05  Bianka Rolando → https://vimeo.com/420560500 
23.05  C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska → https://vimeo.com/421842153 
25.05  Marta Hryniuk i Nick Thomas