Biography

Kamil Druk (b. 1997, Poland) studied Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at the University of the Arts in Zurich. He obtained an MA degree in the Spatial Practices Studio under the guidance of Prof. Mirosław Bałka.He creates interdisciplinary projects, combining ready-made objects, sound, and performance, exploring relationships between space and the viewer/participant, and going beyond traditional gallery contexts. His practice integrates art, technology, and social engagement, inspired by the Arte Útil movement, using art as a tool for real-world impact. He is involved in grassroots initiatives focused on social revitalisation, addressing urban neglect, and building local communities.

Artistic project

TrashCloud is an artistic research-and-process project that transforms the issue of waste—particularly bulky waste—into a field for the active renegotiation of common space. Operating at the intersection of technology and site-specific intervention, the project utilizes a custom mobile application to map urban resources and initiate their alternative circulations.The foundation of the practice is a mindfulness-based field reconnaissance—a processual scanning of the landscape in search of material traces of systemic neglect. The project poses a critical question regarding the fluid boundary between "trash" and the still-useful, yet unwanted, object. Addressing the realities of life in the era of late capitalism, the initiative proposes a grassroots alternative to the destructive "produce-buy-discard" model.Moving beyond passive observation, the project offers a workshop format that serves as an introduction to working with matter, mindfulness, and breaking the taboo associated with the rejected. Collective repairing, processing, and reconfiguring of objects directly within the urban fabric become a performative attempt to reclaim agency. The project proposes a concrete social solution that restores both the utilitarian and symbolic value of abandoned items within a local politics of sharing.

Format: workshop, digital app, installation

Size of audience: 10-15 for workshop, up to 50 for creative walk, no limit for app users

Specific location: outdoor space, local open workshop

Timing/duration: 2 sessions - 2h each for workshops