ROOMS FOR ANXI­ETY To­masz Ar­ma­da, Prze­mek Bra­nas, Ag­niesz­ka Brzeżańska, Zu­zan­na Cze­ba­tul, Marta Hry­niuk i Nick Tho­mas, C.T. Jas­per & Jo­an­na Ma­li­now­ska, Ho­no­ra­ta Mar­tin, Diana i Kor­dian Rönnberg, Adam i Anka Wit­kow­scy 4 V 2020 – 25 V 2020 On­line pro­ject CUR­AT­ORS Gab­rie­la Wa­rzyc­ka-Tu­tak, An­drzej Zagrobelny

Nie-pokoje – wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

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