Guide for the Perplexed: How to Succeed in the New Poland (2014)

Im/migration (Flows of Poles and Others, In and Out of the Country)

Environment and Industry, or What is to Be done?

What Should We Put in the New Jewish Museum? (Jewish Identity)

Gender, or How to be a Woman in the New Poland

Town-hall meetings

Guide for the Perplexed: How to Succeed in the New Poland
2014

Installation with kiosks and sculptures
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Like many of Rosler’s projects, this one incorporates public engagement as a component of the artwork rather than as a reaction to it. Nine whimsical sculptures, or “kiosks,” represent key issues facing Poland twenty-five years after the end of Soviet control: labor, gender, housing, debt, pollution, art making, immigration, Polish identity, and Jewish identity in the Poland of today. In facilitated meetings, discussions, and performances that took place around the kiosks, visitor-participants were invited to confront and debate the forces that now shape Poland, writing on pads and raising issues in a process reminiscent of the town-hall meetings common in the United States.