NATURA+ #8 The Thread of Arche-lite

NATURA+ #8 The Thread of Arche-lite
13–21 September 2025
ARTLab Wyspa Wyspa Progress Foundation
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia
Concept and supervision: Prof. Grzegorz Klaman
Assistant supervision: Dr Piotr Mosur
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Department of Intermedia Transdisciplinary Activities Studio
Students:
1. Franciszek Kierzkowski
2. Daria Piankowska
3. Oliwia Gapińska
4. Agata Okrój
5. Pola Sztuk
6. Zuzanna Ziarnik
7. Julia Krasicka-Mazur
8. Andrzej Habas
9. Ambroży Femiak
10. Jagoda Rojewska
Mobile BIO Lab and scientific supervision: Prof. Katarzyna Jankowska
Gdańsk University of Technology Department of Environmental Engineering Technology
Emilia Bączkowska Robert Latowski Kinga Przychodna Magda Murawa Natalia Dudzińska Karolina Skonieczna Cezery Strugliński Barbara Janiszewska Mateusz Gołębiewski
Workshop guest: Dominika Kulczyńska, PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
Special presentation of Jarek Lustych's works as part of ‘Why does anyone need art?’

In the ecognostic arche-lit, the dichotomies of good and evil, needs and desires, Nature and culture, humans and non-humans, life and non-life, self and non-self, presence and absence, something and nothing cease to apply. I hesitate to say that they are ‘completely absent’. This is a Nietzschean formula that attempts to define progress once and for all, just like modernity, which is sick because of it. Arche-lit is not subject to linear time, because it concerns both what
is now and what was once /Morton/
Arche-lit is the primordial, indelible kinship between humans and non-humans that survived the Neolithic revolution and has not been erased by modernity. These are patterns immersed in the blur of the Anthropocene, barely recognisable, sewn into the DNA of bacteria and viruses, manifesting themselves in many paradoxical and strange ways. Discovering and tracking these patterns is the basis for orientation in an environment where the presence of these multitude of perfectly organised organisms allows us humans to survive. We constantly see and try to name the things around us anew. Morton points to a meta-language with which
we can try to capture things, but they have an invisible gap ‘that is nowhere in space-time: I can think it but I cannot touch it’. This is the gap between what things are and how they appear to us. Let arche-litical
nonsense consciously articulate strangeness.
Grzegorz Klaman