I Could Live in Africa
Vernissage

The exhibition "I Could Live in Africa" takes its title from a documentary about the post punk/reggae band Izrael made by Jacques de Koning, a young Dutchman, who arrived in Poland near the end of martial law and, talking to the band’s members, tried to understand what was going on.

The exhibition focuses on those forms of reaction to the 1980s reality that were based on an anarchic revolt against the jammed system, on searching for alternative social economies, on spontaneous, primitive means of communication, on self-organisation, DIY, recycling, copying, exchange. On uncompromising commitment and, at the same time, on keeping a distance. It is about the wild times when young people smoked grass and drifted away from Babylon – to warm countries.

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