(...)
Another large room hauses Anna Konik's video work called "I
Mistake Left for Right
". the film was projected on a parabolic tin screen. On a narrow
screen band there flashed heads, turned upside down, of people in
a dispute, a heated conversation- their voices were alternately
sloweddown and accelerated. the people were complaining aboutthe
government, including the one they have seemingly elected themselves,
but they did not realise that, perceiving it as an alien, or alienated,
sphere. The government was again "them". All politicians
were evil, those from above,rather than created by a civic society
in a compromise of various groups of interests, in which also the
"head" wouldhave its share. It was all put on its head,
rather than on thestrong legs of participation and democratic delegation.
Democracy here is the name of system resembling an apocaliptic,
all-powerfull beast.(...)
(Text from the Catalogue "Power of the People", Krzysztof
Zwirblis)
