Artist e-mail: ElvinFlamingo(at)gmail.com
Academic e-mail: Jaroslaw.Czarnecki(at)asp.gda.pl
For anyone tired of looking at empty white walls,
a piece like this WILL INSTANTLY TRANSFORM THE SPACE!:
Watch a short scroll-through video preview of the eBook.
It is not just easy to read, but also visually appealing – even on a small phone screen.
This is the eBook that, among other things, refers to the exhibition #ObsessiveStates, which broke the ATTENDANCE RECORD
in the nearly 30-year history of the
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland.
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Watch a video from the #ObsessiveStates exhibition
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Among the many insights the eBook offers is
a presentation of a new diagnostic method for mental illnesses using a BLOOD SAMPLE.
“The implementation of our scientific achievement—diagnosing mental illnesses through blood analysis—would undoubtedly mark a milestone in psychiatry worldwide.”
Krzysztof Sadko(POL)
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The eBook contains:
— 8 essays by international authors
— 8 essays by Polish authors
— An equal contribution from 8 women and 8 men
— 185 good-quality full-page photographs
— A total of 368 pages
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Authors and essay titles:
Xavier Bailly(FRA) “Living Together” or rather “To Live With”?
Jadwiga Charzyńska(POL) Kowalski, Dogs and “Blue Monday”
Anna Dumitriu(GBR) Living Systems and Systems of Living
Janeil Engelstad(USA) The Art of Giving: A Conversation Between Elvin Flamingo and Janeil Engelstad, May’25
Elvin Flamingo(POL) [By Way of Introduction] “Sometimes the Tongue Is the Body — Sometimes the Body Knows More Than the Tongue” Contemporary Echoes of Interspecies Cooperation Rituals
Grzegorz Klaman(POL) Stacks of Things in a Temporal Loop
Ewa Łojkowska(POL) Biotechnology Laboratory as an Artspace
Mira Marcinów(POL) The Phenomenon of the Manic Gesture, Obsession, and Hypomania
Maya Minder(CHE) “If It Stinks It Means Life” — Fermentation, Sterile Encounters, and Endosymbiotic Co-Relations
Małgorzata Ponikowska(POL) Obsessive Pursuit of a Diagnosis
Peter Smissen(AUS) What Is It Like to Be an Ant?
Mike Stubbs(GBR) A Bio-Entropic Descent through Insect Logic, Desert Myth and Human Collapse
Karolina Sulich(USA) “What’s Lab Got to Do with It”: Personal Science and Multispecies Aesthetics
Maciej Śmietański(POL) “Onkalo” — A Silent Testament to Evolution
Chris Torch(ITA) Pink Cadillac, Barbie and Oppenheimer
Marek Wasilewski(POL) Art in Pursuit of Alliances with Extra-Personal Organic Collectives
Principle Photographer:
Michał Szlaga(POL)
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The white Dodge Challenger belonging to the project.
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See what might catch your attention:
“The combination of media, from shiny plexiglass and steel to salvaged engine hoods, living ants or human blood samples, underpins the diverse but clearly interconnected fields being explored at great depth in the exhibition.”
Anna Dumitriu(GBR)
“When one whale becomes stranded, others may rush to its side—drawn not by confusion or instinctual error, but by something strikingly familiar—grief, loyalty, love. They follow its distress calls into the shallows, only to beach themselves in turn. A chain reaction of compassion with tragic consequences. Do whales truly feel what we call grief, loyalty, or love? Or are these human words too small for what they experience?”
Peter Smissen(AUS)
“The monumental project THE SYMBIOSITY OF CREATION by Elvin Flamingo—exhibited, among other venues, at the WRO International Media Art Biennale—is one of the most innovative, original, and, above all, groundbreaking works of visual art created in Poland in the 21st century. It is a piece impressive not only for its physical scale, but also for the duration of its creation and the artist’s sustained effort.”
Marek Wasilewski(POL)
“Well, when I look at myself from the outside, at my creative process, I’m reminded of a scene from Top Gun: Maverick. The fighter pilot, call sign Maverick, ‘succeeds’ — he hits Mach 10.4... then walks into a bar, downs a glass of water, and asks: “Where am I?” — A little boy answers: “Earth.””
Elvin Flamingo(POL)
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Elvin Flamingo is a multi-award-winning contemporary Polish artist and designer, known for the distinctive themes and poetics of his work. He has gained international recognition and is highly regarded by critics across many countries. His artistic practice incorporates BIO ART and LIFE ART, through which he creates intellectually engaging, autonomous bio-installations.
He is a recipient of FOUR GRAND PRIX awards at four different New Media Art Biennials.
Flamingo began his artistic career in 2012, at the age of 45.
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