Ongoing works:

Parliament takes up the issue of governmental power (with emphasis on universal foundation without any reference to existing/historical authorities). Parliament is a joined photographical / object / video work, inter alia built of: unidentified national flags hanged in half high of mast, flapping on artificial wind; chendaliers built of glossy 'osiris pendulums' which emit negative energy; gate controlled by digital lock randomly dividing audience into groups with or without the access, into "we" and "they".

Divers is a big video installation designed for urban/public space. It was developed and inspired by historical events in divided Berlin. Political background gives here an excuse for philosophical reflection about border crossing under various circumstances.

The second part of the Hazard cycle which will focus on “stories about still lifes” as opposed to the firs part which rather takes the shape of “portraits”

Upcoming events:

4! group was founded in 2004 by students of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (Poland) as a collaboration/creative support group, without any common manifest or general idea. 4! group are Michal Grochowiak, Marcin Gwiazdowski, Jakub Jasiukiewicz.

We are using various media: object/sculpture/installation, video, photohraphy, sound etc. Our interests are issues/conflicts like nature/culture, humanism/technology, society/goverment. We have realistic attitude. We strive to redefine notions which are deeply rooted in society's consciousness, like time measuring or significance of authorities' existence.

Hazard Cycle is being realised by 4! group since 2007. Four images has been produced until now: The Tent, The Ball, The Axe and The Suitcase. Alltogether they build multichannel, interconnected video installation. Their soundtracks fill the space, overlap and compete with each other. The Axe (10:00) for four minutes and fifty seconds drowns out the rest of pieces wherby falls silent for five minutes and ten seconds. The Ball (04:30) fills the opposite space with simply distorted random music. The Tent (02:45) consists of two panoramic projections juxtaposed to recount a sad story of two girls who made their gatway to the wood. The Suitcase (13:00) is a video initiating the second part of the Hazard cycle which will concentrate on “stories about still lifes” as opposed to the firs part which rather takes the shape of “portraits”.

This project is about the risk which is inherent part of our chaotic world. It is about the risk as a specific potential, possibility of failure. Hope for success, which inseparably goes together with a threat of fiasco. Kind of ambivalent grotesque, which in some sense accompanies every, even the most prosaic activity. Sequence of causes and effects of our doings and things happening around is impenetrable. Certainly not in real time. It is extremely complicated mathematics. We are surrounded by beautiful chaos. We also have beautiful chaos inside us.

Sometimes we realise that even during simple routine activity, even during inactivity we can become a victim of a disaster. Small, big, whatever. The world and the time are jam-packed with disasters. Hazard project (following all-the-greatest-filmmakers) aims to depict the wrong places at the wrong time. Situations shown on the Hazard videos are trying to grasp specific elementary mood, which can be found in Greek tragedies, fairy tales by the Grimm brothers as well as Lars von Trier’s screenplays. It is a search for a common denominator of these stories, which is also present in our daily experience. In the school we were taught that it is all about the fate or slings and arrows of outrageous god or gods. But maybe it is rather the risk which we breathe in, unpredictability of beautiful chaos which we live in, and which we carry inside us. Today gold, tomorrow dust. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.

Om - physical unit of resistance or sacred syllable, mantra. This project is cycle of simple machines trying to pretend natural processes. Milk leaking from sockets and speech synthesizer talking about days and nights - main intention of those combinations was to provoke questions about compatibility between nature and technology.

Period is a group attempt to get a grip on time which drips ugly between the fingers. Notification of a repetition circle and the rotation of it is in the same time self inscribing in this circle. We are describing it like that: "nonsense is a reason and possibility of image construction, is a reconstruction of small issues (but maybe also big ones). Period classifies existence, establishes a point of reference. This point is a start point, where everything begins - again and again...