Sebastian Cichocki

From Municipal Guerilla to Services of Social Interest. On Works of Robert Rumas.

The works of Robert Rumas seem to be an explicit manifesto - seemingly they can be easily classified, embroiled in a quite predictable discourse on so-called critical art. The works contain suffering, discipline, sacrum, deficiencies and politics - components that contributed to the specific colour of Polish art in the 1990s. On closer analysis, however, Rumas’s art seems also to be something much more personal - multi-threaded tales about our provincial (rather mentally than geographically), suspiciously familiar, Poland…   more >>

 

Daniel Muzyczuk

Attention! Marginalia!

Deleuze wrote that “To believe in the world means also: to support the small events that escape our control, or to create new space-time continuums, even if they have limited surface areas and volumes.” The project suggested by him, like Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones, assumes the localisation of utopias in times when utopian thinking finds itself on the margins. Post-modernism and totalitarianism have taught us to be suspicious in relation to every attempt to undertake the subject of the ideal society. The gaze has moved from dreams to reality and has concentrated on examining it…   more >>