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Non-doing workshop / 6 days week
in: Health and Safety exhibition, Art Institut Wyspa, Gdansk, 2004
project: f36,6 (Roman Dziadkiewicz, Janek Simon, Zorka Wollny)
Realized at the Institute of Art Wyspa in Gdansk (a new, independent art institution in the area of the former Gdansk Shipyard, the birthplace of Solidarity), this was one of the most collective projects executed by fundacja36,6 in 2004. Dedicated both to local problems (de-regulation, privatization, devastation of the factory and unemployment) and global economical relations, it questioned the artist's responsibility and challenged sensibility towards current social problems.
 
The project was a study of the 'process' of non-doing. Non-doing was approached as: a problem, exclusion, a resulting action towards aggression and/ or as rebellion, a privilege, a provocation or as decrepitude. Participants of the project were living in the habitat, inside the exhibition area in a separate "sphere" of time, where the day had 28 hours (so a week was made of only 6 days). This was both a psycho-physical experiment and a perverse political statement contesting the capitalist system.
 This system of time isolated participants from the reality and structured their activity (which was consecutive elements of the project) i.e. workshop of whistling, the supper at 10 a.m., discussion of the non-doing manifesto, design activities (i.e. a playground/power station concept' drafts) and daily,
slow life.
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