Phoenixes and Cyborgs: Mapping Options in the Field of Art
We woke up amidst the ruins. Such is the state of affairs communicated today by artists, curators and academics. In the eight years of backlash under the right-wing ultra-conservative government in Poland, it took not only considerable civic courage but also the ability to seek support outside the system to engage with the theories and practices of contemporary art movements and to participate in the co-creation of an expanded, critical cultural reality with a glocal character – one that encompasses the world of human and non-human beings. Contemporary art and critical theories have essentially been relegated to the margins of cultural and artistic institutions…