Citizens of the Cosmos. Anton Vidokle with Veronika Hapchenko, Fedir Tetianych and the Collection of the International Institute of Cosmism at Muzeum Sztuki.
Bar-do thos-grol, the Tibetan book of the dead is read aloud to the deceased (from the end) for a number of days to save him from reincarnation and birth. The world in which we live in this perspective is nothing more than a vast illusion. It can happen, it can dazzle and stun, but it's not worth going back to it.
The end-different sensitivity formed the idea of the universal resurrection of all who have ever lived. To bring this to this with scientific, rational methods, in some Promethean surge of all united humanity, in order to stop the biological injustice of using the achievements of previous generations without revenge. To free yourself from the violence of the "blind forces of nature", but also from the believing faith in a transcendent, supernatural resurrection that takes away the desire to act. The author of this idea called supramoralism Nikolai Fyodorov (1828-1903) was a Moscow librarian, the author of a posthumously published work Philosophy of joint action (Just published in Polish in translation by Cezary Wodziński and Michał Wilczarek).
Perhaps the attitude towards death marks the boundaries between the West (Christianity but also pragmatism) and the East (Buddhism, which tolerates action, but does not believe in its reality).
If someone was not on the way at the beginning of November with paths and detours marked out by the common ritual of memory, and on the other hand felt the need to add something to the weekly looking for discounts and promotions in markets, they could visit the exhibition on the sixth floor of the Museum of Art on the corner of Gdańsk and Więckowski.
Daniel Muzyczuk has prepared a remarkable exhibition Citizens of space Inspired by Fyodorov's philosophy. In the catalogue for the exhibition we read: "And if Hanging structures Katarzyna Kobro were created as a consequence of research on zero gravity and extraterrestrial life? The artist had probable contact with space ideas, discussed in Moscow artistic circles during the revolution. What if Władysław Strzemiński's desire to open the museum came partly from the writings of Nikolai Fedorov, in which the world freed from death, populated by the resurrected, was compared to a museum - a space in which time was suspended?
Contrary to the clichéd information, not "zero gravity" but "zero death" is the most important rule in the world. You can try to watch three long video projections from the end, "against the current" hanging in the museum weightlessness of time.
Artists whose works will be shown at the exhibition: Zbyněk Baladrán, Wojciech Fangor, Stano Filko, Veronika Hapchenko, Karol Hiller, Jerzy Janisch, Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Paul Klee, Katarzyna Kobro, Aleksandra Korsakowa, Zofia Kulik, Jacek Malczewski, Kuba Mikurda / Laura Pawela / Marcin Lenarczyk, Roman Opałka, Isabel Pons, Michael Sandle, Henryk Stażewski, Jonasz Stern, Mladen Stilinović, Robert Tilling, Fedir Tetyanych, Jerzy Tchórzewski, Anton Vidokle, Andrzej Wróblewski.
The exhibition was organised around research conducted by Anton Vidokle (born 1965), an artist and publisher who for nearly a decade explored the philosophy of cosmism with the intention of proposing a new version of a future free from death, war, decay and exploitation of nature. The exhibition will feature a series of his films, shot in Japan, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Italy, introducing some of the key issues of this intellectual and artistic tradition.
The exhibition will also feature works from the Museum of Art collection, as resources of the default Space International. The purpose of the exhibition is to demonstrate that the space movement was not an activity exclusively Russian, hence it emphasizes the participation of Ukrainian artists in the study of space issues. Fedir Tetianycz was a performer, designer, painter and poet, deeply interested in the concept of the biosphere. He created the doctrine of Fripulia, based on the categories of eternity, infinity and boundlessness. The exhibition also featured paintings by Veronika Hapczenko, a visionary painter from Krakow, illustrating various aspects of Konstantin Ciołkowski's writings.