The artist will present an activity with the title „Pre sent,” which refers to presence in the present time, but here it is treated in two parts. The “pre” part indicates preceding activities. Rogulski refers to the activities involved in organizing the event, the matter of performing on the backstage. “Send” as the latter part means ‘to send,’ which the author conceives of as activities related to sending instructions, requests with technical demands, a package with a previously prepared banner. Sending leads to action – an element of live improvisation, and according to the artist is in a kind of sending presence.
Marek „Rogulus” Rogulski dedicates „Pre sent” to the discipline of performance itself in a broader context. He also suggests interpretations of the title performance in the face of current world events, and emphasizes that he is interested in a deeper issue than performance act. On the other hand, he sets his sights on performing the problem of art. “The problem of art” is relevant to artistic consciousness with contemporary knowledge, the new humanities and cognitive science, as well as the realities of art institutions and the art market. It prompts the question of whether the “problem of art” can perform the fertilizing function and artistic exploration.
Tuesday / Oct 1, 2024 / 5 pm / GAFU
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Marek „Rogulus” Rogulski
Multimedia artist, sculptor, painter, performer, art theorist. Born in 1967 in Gdańsk, where he studied at the Faculty of Painting and Graphics of the State Higher School of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1990. His first documented action in public space took place in 1983. Three years later he became a member of the music group Terra Nostra, and in 1989 he joined the art group Pampers Maxi; in the following years he was active in the collectives Ziemia Mindel Wurm, Tysiąc Najjaśniejszych Słońc, OBPW, and in numerous music bands. From 1990 to 1992 he was the vice-president of the Association of Social Initiative Club – Gallery C 14; at that time he collaborated with the art group Totart and Galeria Wyspa. Since 1992, he has been running the Tysiąc Najjaśniejszych Słońc Foundation, which has had various art presentation venues and galleries (including Auto Da Fe, Spichrz 7, Spiż 7, ICS, MuesseuM). From 1992 to 1994 he was vice-president of the Otwarte Atelier Foundation, which functioned in the former municipal bathhouse in Gdańsk. Since 2017 he has been running the Institute for Cybernetics of Art and MuesseuM in Osowa, Gdańsk (“Great ArtHadron Collider”). He has developed a number of concepts that he applies to the issues of contemporary art: “Beyond Postmodernism”, “Steerage”, “New Totality”, “Epihumanism”. He currently works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź.
