Kontakt Video Klub

The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad

ORDEAL: WORK FREED FROM ITS NEGATIVE, STIGMATIZING VALUE, May 26- June 1

For the The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which is a joint project of Museum of Modern Art (MSN) and Kontakt Collection, a Video Klub has been inspired by the MSN Warsaw Archives that provide a vast resources available online. The resources include a selection of films from the Filmoteka Muzeum – a collection of nearly 700 films by Polish avant-garde authors, presenting materials on key Polish artists and artistic life since 1945, recorded lectures, meetings and debates combined with a weekly changing selection of films from the Kontakt Collection in Vienna.

Rhetoric is practiced in the form of overwrought speeches. The Cynics practice philosophy by being silent, by being playful, and by being the butt of the joke.

When the Cynic was put up for sale as a slave on the market, they asked to sit down, only to be met with refusal by his merchant. in response, they said, “What does it matter, we buy fish lying on their stomach,” and then lay down like a fish.”