The Cursory Remix
An interactive poetry book that takes you on a translating adventure.
Can you save Understanding from the mishaps of the 2019’s Google Translate? Escape the country that sacrifices friends and don’t get fooled by the unattainable absolute of Wikipedia on your way to the Seven Serpents. Do you have what it takes to help people understand each other?
About the author
I am Michał, a UK-based experimental poet, artist, curator, and educator.
My interdisciplinary practice combines text, interactive writing, visual art, 3D work, and audience (and reader) participation.
I work with language, image, and performance, exploring the themes of queerness, neurodivergence, identity, class, and communication.
I am the founder and director of the curatorial project artBLAB and the co-founder and co-head teacher of the Experimental Writing School.
This is a collection that retunes our attention to the fact that we are not merely language-using subjects, but intimately and irrevocably subject to language.
Fran Lock @ Culture Matters on 'The Cursory Remix'
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Explore some of my 3D work:
What do you think you're doing?!
2025. Featured at the 'Glitch i Kolor' ('Glitch & Colour') exhibition in Toruń, Poland.
Growing up in Poland, I had always hated the Polish conformism, pessimism, and the criticism of creativity. The texts placed on the light tubes read: “The whole Toruń will laugh at us”, “Now you went overboard”, “What will the people say?”, and “You can’t do it like that”. Once the viewer has read these messages, they’d approach the mirror with an inscription in English that reads “You are kinda swell”. I found myself, as a person and a writer, in the English language – and I love the word ‘swell’!
Hello?
2023. Featured at the 'Hauntings' exhibition in Folkestone, UK.
Where do your anxious thoughts live? Are they all just in your head? My anxious curses will take you on an adventure through the pseudo-science of phrenology, upgraded for the 21st century.
Malice clouds and martyred saints
2024. Featured at the 'Dreamscapes' exhibition in Folkestone, UK.
My dream is to have equality. From some horrible, well-esteemed men, I took quotes about society, economics, and women, and interjected them with my own text to create poems that fight the current system of oppression.
Watch my performances
This is a space to explore experimental poetry from different angles. Enjoy!
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