Łukasz Rad-X Radziszewski. Suns

Both, synthetic pictures will be presented on adjacent screens, as doubled movie, ongoiung for 24 hours. Compilation includes live-stream broadcasts and movies preprepared accordingly to each time zone of Earth. “Suns” project is possible to make just with synchronisation of houndreds of people – travelers, vlogers, friends of artist, local inhabitants, filmmakers, rtists and art institutions.

Together with video screening, will be presented Rafał Ryterski`s sound composition – generated live, with use of software that analyzes informations about view and atmospherical conditions from the places of reccording.

Carbondale, Illinois prepared for months for the solar eclipse of 21 August. The phenomenon required touristic infrastructure and favourable weather with a clear sky. Even the ban on consuming alcohol in public places was lifted in the hope of broadening the influx of money left by tourists which flowed in through the city left desolate after the 2008 economic crash for a moment as brief as the astrological phenomenon.

Even though the star of our planetary system has long lost its status as a deity, the rare phenomena linked with it cause great excitement. For some, they get their hearts pumping, for others – they bring a flow of money to their accounts. We cannot handle the effects of climate change, but we try to involve the 150-million-kilometre-away Sun into the logic of capital and efficiency, just as we do with the resources beneath us. With decent success – solar energy is slowly making its way into our houses, the most popular chain of furniture stores in the world, Ikea, has recently started selling solar panels, in Poland as well.

There still remains the last stronghold unconquered by neoliberalism which is also protected by the Sun – sleep. According to Jonathan Crary’s observations put forward in his 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, it is the sleep that serves as a twofold mental hygiene. In the literal sense, it lets the human brain regenerate and digest the received stimuli. In the psychosocial sense, it is the only crack through which we can escape the imperative of both production and consumption. Even though since the discovery of electricity we are as proficient in turning the crowns of our biological clocks and breaking the daily rhythm of activity and rest as we have never been before, it is the sunrise and the sunset which regulate the hormonal balance responsible for it.

The proverbial “stopping the Sun and moving the Earth” is treated as one of most significant events in the history of culture and science. However, what would happen if it could be achieved in the literal sense and our reality would start resembling the one presented in Łukasz Radziszewski’s work? The golden face of the Sun suspended above the horizon was hitherto associated with unrefined landscapes, two faces next to each other – with equally cheesy sci-fi illustrations. However, just like the sunrise is hard to distinguish from the sunset on some pictures, the line between idyll and nightmare is thin.

Piotr Policht

For six years, I have had a passion for collecting chronometers. As an artist, my interest in measuring instruments and reflection upon time influenced my creative activities.
In the text below I describe a situation in which the passage of time is halted by synthetic means. I have created a project of a 24-hour live-video broadcast. It would involve displaying sunrise and sunset simultaneously. Both of these spectacles are twin-like landscape frames, even though they express two different phases of the day. Suns would be standing still above the line of the horizon during the so-called “golden hour”. Apart from the star, a fragment of the landscape and the current weather conditions are depicted as well.

Sunrise and sunset, the border moments of the day and night cycle are of very short duration and at these moments a change of the sun’s position is particularly noticeable. The illusion of motionlessness can be created through the juxtaposition of a sequence of short 15-minute subsequent shots documenting the same moment. It is worth mentioning that only flowing editing and distortionless broadcasting will allow the moment to be freely extended in real-time.

Extensive preparation and organisation is required for simultaneous sunrise and sunset lasting all day. The programme with live video recording will involve precisely designated stations around the circumference of the Earth located in all time zones. In order to accomplish these objectives, at least seventy video capturing points should be specified and communicated with each other. Then, one station would be used twice – first, during sunrise, and then during sunset. It should be strongly emphasised – both broadcasts are independent constructions. The videos of sun’s rise and fall are broadcast from points radically remote from one another, and they register significantly different processes. Only the screening – that is, the juxtaposition – makes the two films clarify each other. During the 23th September screening, I will become the dispatcher of time, and the place of Arsenal Gallery in Białystok – the control room. I intend not to sleep and to remain in the state of constant activity. It can be said that I will become a biological programmer.

Łukasz Radziszewski