07/01/2026
gathering
{Live}
Meeting with Arek Parasite
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What happens if we refuse work? If instead of producing, we begin to parasitise, recover, share, and live beyond the logic of the market?
- At the next meeting in the {Live} series, we invite you to a conversation with Arek Parasite — an artworker and PhD candidate whose practice consistently challenges norms of productivity, ownership, and consumption.
- We will talk about alternative forms of action, relations of dependency, responsibility, and the possibility of imagining other models of collective life.
- Arek Paraside’s practice grows out of his personal experience of class background and a critical observation of contemporary socio-economic relations. He persistently brings forth suppressed perspectives and constructs counter-narratives to dominant models of how art, labour, and consumption function. His work is grounded in everyday freegan, zero/less waste, anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist strategies, which he treats not as declarations but as a lived practice of both life and artistic production.
- With the beginning of 2026, Arek Pasożyt embarks on a year-long action of refusing work – a social, political, ecological and existential gesture. During the meeting, the Refusal of Work will be delivered.
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{Live}
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- We host both artists who have previously taken part in Ujazdowski Castle’s programme and those making their debut. In this series, we would like to focus on individual approaches and artistic practices.
- Why take part?
- The events will be recorded for archival purposes, and the recordings will be made available online through the Mediateka.
- In times of tensions and crises, thinking and talking together about contemporary art – which responds to today’s challenges in unconventional ways – helps strengthen social resilience. Art is not only the object – just as important are the process, the thinking, the emotions, and the relationships that accompany it. The meetings offer a closer look at how art is created and, most importantly, who creates it.
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- The meetings are open to everyone, from people working professionally in culture and art, to those who are curious about artists and their work, or simply want to talk about art.
- We do our best to make the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art accessible to everyone – we would like to adapt the event to you and your needs. To help us do that, please contact our accessibility coordinator: dostepnosc@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
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