Not a gift given, but a choice made

in collaboration with: Dorota Gawęda, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Panayiotis Mina

text, audio, series of objects:
steel, aluminum, pvc, linen, colored RGB lights, found objects, 2019

It is not a gift given. It is not support, location, referent, or source of sustainability for discourse. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. The past and the future are iteratively reconfigured and enfolded, and simultaneously difficult to untangle one from another. It is not immutable or passive. It does not refer to a fixed substance; not a thing, but a doing, a congealing of agency. *

Not a gift given, but a choice made is an immersive installation created on the basis of interplay of three seemingly independent planes: visual, textual and sound. Each of them, establishing its own contexts, influences the others. For this project, Inside Job invited Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, founders of the Young Girl Reading Group, to work on the text layer. The sound is made by Panayiotis Mina, an artist from Cyprus cooperating with the Honest Electronics DIT group. The title of the installation was taken from Ursula K. Le Guin's book Tombs of Atuan and concerns the relationship between the visions of the future, understood as a source of new mythology, and the present.

*fragment of the reader prepared especially for the exhibition by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė.

sound:
Panayiotis Mina

more at:
Echo Gone Wrong / Magazyn SZUM

exhibition view:
Inside Job in collaboration with Dorota Gawęda, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Panayiotis Mina, Not a gift given, but a choice made, 2019
Pawilon, Poznań, Poland
photos: Panayiotis Mina