CAFx - Primary Swarm by Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz

Primary Swarm

Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz

Poland

The video "Primary Swarm" (2020) by Agnieszka Mastalerz and Michał Szaranowicz is staged in a wind tunnel used for analyzing the flow of air. A group of people is moving towards a gate. Their relationship is not clear, they might be competitors. From a standing point, the people start to crawl. Outside, the natural environment represents an actual area in the city of Warsaw, Poland, where new apartments are supposed to be built. The artists wanted to document the current status of the landscape, before its transformation. While witnessing the slow disappearance of a green area of the city, previously available for the community and now passing in private hands, the artists wonder who will be entitled to live in those spaces and how architecture influences forms of collective life.

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