“The structure of Future Days, the constant “stumbling” over the remains of works of art (which are, perhaps, not works of art at all, but rather their material after-effects), recalls a classic, pseudo-touristic text by Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey, which was first published in Artforum in 1967. The artists blundering through heaven are forever talking and thinking about art, the horizon of the new ultimately out of sight. Condemned to eternity, they can no longer dream of originality or “progress.” As Bas Jan Ader once suggested, they are “consumers of extreme comfort,” endlessly staring into the past. (…)”
Excerpt from Sebastian Cichocki, Agnieszka Polska, Future Days, or: The Artist as Sight-seer, in “Tourists Like Us-Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art” (eds.: Frederika Martini and Vytautas Michelkevičius), ECAV-Ecole Cantonale d`Art du Valais, Sierre and Vilnius Academy of Arts Press in association with VAA Nida Art Colony, 2013. Read more