Common point exercises
Irmina Rusicka & Kasper Lecnim
2RA, Belfast City Centre
The Polish artistic duo Irmina Rusicka and Kasper Lecnim take a playful and rebellious approach to their art practice, often using humour as a mechanism for connecting with audiences. Previous work has involved crashing cars, fixing pianos, organising house removals, making holes in museums and repairing motorcycles.
In Belfast, they recognised the prevailing sense of humour and wanted to focus on how and where people ‘play’ in the city. They designed a fantasy children’s playground that was based on statistical data around the changing political and social landscape of the city over the past few decades. In 2RA, the city’s ‘indoor public park’, they will exhibit one of their sculpture ideas: a balance beam children can play on that traces the shape of the interface area between the Shankill Road and the Falls Road as depicted on a scale map. Accompanying the sculpture are rolls of drawings made by primary school classes from this interface area who have been invited to imagine play spaces and structures for their neighbourhoods.
Common point exercises is part of the Belfast 2024 celebrations and is generously supported by Belfast City Council and British Council. It includes contributions from primary school pupils at Glenwood Primary School and St Mary’s Primary School.
About the artists
Irmina Rusicka (born 1990) and Kasper Lecnim (born 1990) — a visual artist duo, authors of installations, objects, videos and research works. They work together but also separately. Graduates of the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. In their artistic practice they crashed cars, fixed pianos, organised house removals, made holes in museums and repaired motorcycles. They participated in international projects such as The New Dictionary of Old Ideas (2019-2020) and Artists in Neighbourhoods - Belfast 2024 (2023-2024). Their works were shown in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, MeetFactory in Prague, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Centre in Debrecen. Live and work in Warsaw, Poland.