ARTISTS: Piotr Bosacki, Wojciech Hoffman, Piotr Jędrzejewski, Janek Simon, Aleksandra Ska, Łukasz Skąpski, Dominika Skutnik, Konrad Smoleński, Kamil Stańczak, Andrzej Wasilewski

Exhibition called "The Desiring Machines" inaugurates the Actual Art Zone gallery in the Art Factory.

Opening ZONA for the present arts - space for exploration and activities in the field of visual culture and production of the symbolic value accompany with the next edition of the Lodz Design Festival. "The Desiring Machines" exhibition presents art works situated on the sphere between design and arts.

All the arts objects designed by artists are individual and unique. Meaning of these eccentric and peculiar mechanism cannot be treated in the conventional way. A riddle of their activity (twirling, moving, sound making and melody playing) can be compared with Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's vision of the "desiring machines" presented in their famous book "L'anti-Oedipe. Capitalisme et schizophrénie". All these uncommon gadgets designed by artists show human desire and the most surprising forms it can take.

"The Desiring Machines" - artistic objects which are located on the technics and arts, design and handicraft areas are important supplement to the "Łódź Design" Festival. This is the supplement in which artistic imagination cooperate with unique technical idea. This creates indescribable mechanism, unknown behoof and suprising situations.

curators: Kamil Kuskowski & Jarosław Lubiak