Kolektyw Łaski（Julia GOLACHOWSKA, Jagoda KWIATKOWSKA, , Anna SHIMOMURA)
《Climate Crisis Protest Karaoke》 2020
INTRODUCTION
Climate Protest Karaoke
Sailor Star Song
Climate crisis is real and the fact that soon it will change our lives and our entire planet is overwhelming. We have to deal with anger and frustration when facing with the cynicism of the ruling class. In our next singing project, we have changed parts of popular songs’ lyrics so that they could help us cope with all these emotions. Hits that we hear on the radio usually tell about broken heart. Only a slight intervention and they suddenly become protest songs that can help us handle the burden of our times. We reclaim the music that belongs to the commercialised, capitalist culture to give voice to our collective anger and shed our tears together with Mother Earth♪
Collective Wasuki (Kolektyw Łaski)
The project debuted at the Future of Culture Forum in 2019 and was presented as part of our on-line art residency at the Department of Presence (the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw), where we invited people to participate in our climate karaoke challenge on Instagram. The recordings are available on the Instagram profile of the Department of Presence.
Cooperation：Paweł Pachciarek
PROFILE
Kolektyw Łaski is a group of artist-activists who met at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Each of them develops individual projects but they are united by friendship and a need to create socially engaged art. their works deal with identity, history, memory, gender, feminism and ecology. They believe in sisterhood and reality-changing quality of art. Their first project was “The New Patriotic Song Book” (2018-), which they still continue. The project was awarded at Młode Wilki Competition in 2018. They participated in “Lost in Translation” at Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA in 2021.
