Protesting Images

Authors: Ewa Axelrad, Witek Orski, Rafał Milach, Martyna Miller, Alicja Rogalska, kolektyw Intervalo-Escola, Tytus Szabelski-Różniak, Konsorcjum Praktyk Postartystycznych

[Ewa Axelrad]

*Zadyma** from series *Plague*
Mixed media, 300cm x 420cm x 150cm
* eng: 1. rampage, brawl 2. blizzard, whiteout
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

*Shtamah* #1, 2017
Still from 4K resolution video with sound, 4"35'
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

*Shtamah* #3, 2017
Photograph, 125 x 100 cm
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

*Shtamah* #2, 2017
Ash wood flag poles, steel pole holders, dimensions variable
Installation view at Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

*Shtamah* #5, 2017
Spillikins, resin, approximate dimensions 18 x 35 cm
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

*Zadyma** from series *Plague*, 2014
Mixed media, 300cm x 420cm x 150cm
* eng: 1. rampage, brawl 2. blizzard, whiteout
Courtesy of the artist and BWA Warszawa

[Consortium of Post-Artistic Practices]

[Rafał Milach]

[Martyna Miller]

Prc gesture revival

is a new project of Tyna Collective (Tina Keserović, Martyna Miller), which through workshops, visuals, actions in public spaces and social media wants to create a platform where the production of a common language tool for everyday resistance would be possible.

Preoccupied with the aesthetics of current protests and willing to abuse the existing clichés of visual culture, we bring the idea to build a new code of communication, under a sign still used by Balkan women.

Prc is a supplement of a middle finger, an alternative to mainstream anger. Stemming from a traditional representation of the massive postwar injury of arabic archers, it symbolises a numb, effete center, around which, in a gesture of support, the other fingers dance. Vulgar, abstract, and temporal, this gesture always comes up with a surprise. It doesn't insult: it disarms.

Martyna Miller, *PRC Gesture Revival: Black Finger*, 2016-ongoing
Courtesy of the artist

Martyna Miller, *PRC Gesture Revival: Verna (Intervention of Nadia Tumidajska in Katowice, Off Muzeum exhibition 298 111)*, 2017
https://prcgesturerevival.tumblr.com/verna
Courtesy of the artist

[Witek Orski]

[Alicja Rogalska]

Alicja Rogalska with Intervalo-Escola – Time for a break, Protest Song Karaoke U-Jazdowski, 3.11.2017

[protest song credits]

Bella Ciao, antifaschist song of the Italian partisans, lyrics: unknown, music: traditional,
performed by: Giorgio Gaber
Ain't got no, I got life, Nina Simone, kyrics and music: Galt Mac Dermot / Gerome Ragni / James Rado
Warszawianka 1905, lyrics: Wacław Święcicki, music: Józef Pławiński
What's going on, Marvin Gaye, lyrics and music: Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland, Renaldo „Obie” Benson
Do prostego człowieka, music and performed by: Akurat, lyrics: Julian Tuwim
Hymne du MLF (L’hymne des femmes), Compagnie jolie môme, lyrics: Paris feminist’s collective, music: Rudi Goguel
Bandiera Rossa (Avanti Popolo), lyrics: Carlo Tuzzi, music: traditional, Banda e Coro & M.
Lupin Z batogami, music and performed by: R.U.T.A, lyrics: traditional
El Pueblo Unido, Inti Illimani, music: Sergio Ortega, lyrics: Quilapayún
In Ale Gasn/Hey Hey Daloy Politsey, lyrics: Zelman Mlotek / traditional, music: traditional
WAR, music and lyrics: Bob Marley, performed by: Sinead O'Connor

[Tytus Szabelski}

Title image by Ewa Axelrad :
Fetor. Greetings from series Plague, 2014
Postcard, posted from various locations, 26x9.5 cm, edition of 300