Narrations #12 | Gdańsk 2080. Futurological Congress | Wrzeszcz Dolny | Curators: Karina Kottova, Piotr Sikora | 22-23.11.2021
NARRACJE is a festival of contemporary art presented in Gdańsk’s public space. The artworks navigate viewers around this urban adventure: using various tools, they remain closely connected with the space. They provoke, intervene, and remove subsequent layers of the everyday to reveal hidden meanings.
The 12th edition of NARRACJE takes you on a journey to the year 2080, when a substantial part of Gdańsk will be submerged under the Baltic Sea. However, in the fantastical concept devised by curators Karina Kottová and Piotr Sikora, this will not bring about an environmental disaster predicted in bleak scenarios. What they offer instead is rational optimism: the curators intend to fill the urban space of Wrzeszcz with projects based on a speculation that synthesizes the work of artists, scientists, environmentalists and urban activists.
“While we are aware of the gravity of our situation, we do not believe in gloomy scenarios of the Anthropocene. We want to build an event whose narrative stretches far into the future, yet offers a bright image of what’s to come instead of apocalyptic visions, and, by way of a remedy, initiates a collaboration between residents, artists and activists”, say Kottová and Sikora.
NARRACJE #12 ARTISTS:
Linda Wrong (CZ), Mark Fridvalszki (HU), Barbora Kleinhamplová (CZ), Kateřina Konvaliová (CZ), Magda Lazar (PL) and Michalina Bigaj (PL), Cecylia Malik (PL), Kateřina Olivová (CZ), Jan Matýsek (CZ), マリッサ・クーパーの憂鬱 The Melancholy of Marissa Cooper (INT.), Centrum Centrum: Łukasz Jastrubczak & Małgorzata Mazur (PL), Tatuator Maciej (PL), Potencja: Karolina Jabłońska, Tomasz Kręcicki, Cyryl Polaczek (PL), Egill Sæbjörnsson (ISL), Lucia Sceranková (SK), Julita Wójcik (PL).
