Honorable mention awarded by the jury composed of: Jill Godmilow, Zorka Wollny and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Dreamed Revolution (2014-2015) is based on documentation of a performance which took place in Tear Nowy in Lodz, Poland. Local activists were invited to take part in an experimental workshop and, hypnotized by a professional hypnotist in the presence of an audience, collectively articulate possible scenarios for a socjety of the future. Hypnosis was not only used as a meditative tool to increase focus and facilitate creativity, but was also meant to remove learned thinking barriers. The project was an attempt to move beyond the forms of subjectivity created by the ideological hegemony of global neoliberal capitalism which inform our rational thinking and affectivity and limit the horizons of our imagination. Cocommissioned by Muzeum Sztuki and Tear Nowy, Lodz as part of Avantgarde and Socialist Realism project.
Alicja Rogalska is an artist based in London and Warsaw. Her practice is multidisciplinary and encompasses both research and production with a fokus on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday. She mosty works in context on projects that involve collaboration and creating situations. She graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. Recent exhibitions and projects include: All Men Become Sisters, Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz, 2016); Rehearsal, National Museum (Krakow, 2015), No Need For References, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, 2015), Critical Juncture, Kochi Muziris Biennale, (Kochi, 2014); A Museum of Immortality, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2014); Dreamed Revolution, Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz, 2014); IMS, Flat Time House (London, 2013); Melancholy In Progress, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei, 2012); To Look is to Labour, Laden Für Nichts (Leipzig, 2010) and No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern (London, 2010).