Apparatus 22, Gluklya, Ivana SpinelliNo Future But Poems 31.10—30.11.24
collateral events:
30.10 at 7 PM at the University Of Arts in Poznań
Apparatus 22 on treasures in fake, Ioana Nemeș, Blank Auguri and other means of institution building (in english)
31.10 at 7 PM
Opening at galleria SKALA
31.10 at 7.30—9 PM
Riddles durational performance Apparatus 22 (in english)
14.11 at 7 PM
Screening and artist talk with Gluklya Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (in english)
20.11 at 11 AM
Senior people informal talks on art (in polish)
The exhibition is co-financed by the City of Poznań’s Department of Culture and the Department of Culture of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, based at the Greater Poland Voivodeship Marshal’s Office in Poznań.
Acts and moments against the solely administrative world.
No Future But Poems is a collective artistic, performative, cross-media, and playful project that seeks for the transformative power of poetic practices on reality. The artists search for delicate, strange, and crucial poetic moments to unveil the complexity of the world around us in a collectively determined manner, circumventing and sabotaging the administrative apparatus that controls our time and desires. The works of Gluklya, Apparatus 22, and Ivana Spinelli addresses issues related to the political and affective community that we have yet to realize, rewriting the normative system that regulates its access. The poetic act is a language, a vibrant, translucent, and diffracted matter that becomes a practical methodology for investigating reality through a language-action that propels the artists’ works, creating a generative playground.
The artistic practices of Ivana Spinelli, Apparatus 22, and Gluklya intertwine through the investigation of power, public activation, the use of language, and reflection on themes of vulnerability and futurism. Each of these practices contributes to a collective narrative that challenges conventions and invites critical and creative dialogue about contemporary reality.
The works on display are textual inputs, prompts, instructions, and intellectual bridges that generate thoughts and actions. The exhibition space becomes a place of transit, an attempt to convey a mood that sees us stuck, in constant waiting for a future that is not happening. At the threshold of a non-place, the exhibition is a dreamlike space influenced by digital subcultures, capturing an atmosphere suspended between nostalgia and impossible futures, blending poetic elements with a sense of mystery and disruption. Like easter eggs in the space, the artists’ works hide clues, commands to be activated but open to the subjective sensitivity of each of us to co-construct a way out of our liminal condition.
An integral part of the project is the activation of collateral events in the city of Poznan through a program of screenings, performances, and talks dedicated to the artists and their practices.
