User:Kul/WhatHowWhy

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In 2010 I made the big-scale sculpture depicting exploding animal. It consists of a thousand elements made of bleached paper pulp. Internal and external cow’s organs were attached to the thin silver wires as if they were frozen in the air or simply spattered on the selling, floor and walls.

I cast a lot of beef offal collected from the butchery stores all over the town. Eventually, I also dealt with the whole dead cow thanks to the courtesy of a dishonest meat dealer. I have design the location for every component in relation to each other and place them into the gallery space.

By doing so I wanted to display the moment of extremely violent scene in laboratorial and detached manner by striping it of major excitement factors like color, sound, and motion. The idea was to investigate the human perception and attraction towards the pornography of brutal imaginary.

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In 2014 I’ve executed the performance “The artist as a Eastern European restaurant”. I organised a fake dinner party for almost 50 hungry people expecting a real Polish feast. Unfortunately for my audience, instead of ordered food I served a set of offensive performances to each person.

I handed the false yet "traditional" menu cards of Polish cuisine over to invite guests. Every dish was corresponding with a different set of instruction for the performer, meaning me. When the phase of taking orders was over I followed with performance execution according to the audience culinary selection.

Every performative gesture assigned to the menu card dishes referred to Polish collective identity. The aim of the piece was to introduce stereotypical and party fake sense of Polish culture to foreigners as well as raise questions about real and designed parts of our nationality, history and tradition.

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In 2012 I have made the interactive floor installation “Martha Stewart Living-room“. I design the layout of the perfect middle-class living room and drawn the outline of every piece of furniture on a floor. When entering the space the viewer could hear the different set of orders according to one’s position in the room.

The web cam attached to the selling traced the viewer’s steps. Thanks to some simple sound programming the sofa could tell the viewer to “smell nice” and the coffee table could shout, “show us your tits”. Every piece of furniture renders different oppressive command when triggered by viewer's motion.

The set of commends delivered by the perfect living=room refers to social requirements and aspirations that one (me for sure) is subjected to every day. The work was an absurd attempt to critique bourgeois model of society. It was inspired by Martha Stewart lifestyle magazine and TV show.