Beyond the Horizon: Institutional Futures & the Labyrinth of Efficiency – Workshop

What (or who) can a cultural institution serve? What stories and narratives can help us get out of current crises? Whose platform should an art gallery be? What experiences and spaces could support us in the transformations we need?

When: 15.09.2024 (Sunday), 12.00-14.00 pm
Where: Galeria Labirynt, ul. ks. J. Popiełuszki 5, Lublin
Language: workshops held in Polish. No translation into Ukrainian and English. No Polish Sign Language translation.
Accessibility: the workshop takes place on the first floor, in the educational studio of Galeria Labirynt. The bookstore offers free rental of a wheelchair and noise-canceling ear muffs. The gallery has portable induction loops available. Information about the need to use the loops should be sent to: ksiegarnia@labirynt.com.
Admission: free
Registration: by email to ignacy.hryniewicz@gmail.com; spontaneous arrival is also possible, but with no guarantee of a place. Adults are welcome to attend the workshop.
Necessary materials are provided by Galeria Labirynt. However, you are encouraged to bring utensils for writing, drawing or your preferred creative expression.
The workshop lasts about 120 minutes.

Person in charge: Ignacy Hryniewicz (LIOS Labs, Osada.Earth)

Join us for a workshop on mythopoetic creative writing and visioning about the potential futures of cultural institutions and art galleries in Poland. During the workshop we will contemplate together the last 50 years of Galeria Labirynt and its heritage, and then allow ourselves the space to boldly speculate about the next 5 decades of experimentation, more-than-human perspectives, futuristic-utopian scenarios and multiple voices about what a cultural institution can become.
Where will speculative guessing lead us?

The result of the series of workshops will be the consolidation and archiving of 50 visions for the next 50 years of Galeria Labirynt. According to the preferences and forms of expression of the authors, they may take the form of writing, drawing, sound, film or whatever comes to mind. Once collected, they will become part of the exhibition in the form of a mini-archive available to visitors.

Ignacy is a creative activist, writer, experiential designer and creator of interdisciplinary social and ecological projects. He is fascinated by practicing utopia in action, pushing the boundaries of imagination, and operating at the intersection of art and science. Member of the LIOS Labs & Osada.earth community. Co-founder of the Synergy collective, whose activities have included over a dozen transmedia music events in collaboration with various institutions and organisations. He has collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art, Wolski and Sluzewski Dom Kultury, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Biennale Warsaw, Conflict Kitchen, HER Docs Film Festival, Extinction Rebellion Poland and many other initiatives. In his free time, he experiments in the kitchen, searches for new sounds and explores deserts and forests.

Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the National Cultural Center program: Culture-Interventions. Edition 2024