Krakow Festival Office
ArtBoom Festival 2011
ArtBoom Festival 2011
RUMB is a mobile, easy to transport and use, multifunctional city platform. In navigation, a rumb (compass point) is an angular measure used to define places on the horizon – it is an instrument of public cartography, which enables us to examine social possibilities of recovery and use of a city. RUMB is laid out on the wind rose plan – a colourful tent is spread over its eight corners, which creates a temporary shelter for a group of city nomads. The convoy moves through the city like a critical mass, transported on a dozen of bicycles pulling small trailers with equipment necessary to put up the tent, organise a meeting, a picnic or a discussion. RUMB works as a portable centre of city activity, an unplugged cultural institution. All that is needed to put it up is human muscle strength and enthusiasm of the participants. They can set off on city explorations together and put up the RUMB in any place in a very short time with the use of very small amount of work. RUMB does not need any external sources of energy, only minimum outlays are necessary in order to make it work. For the first festival days RUMB will be operated by Zarząd Kuratorski ZOM and selected Krakow organisations, after which he will be handed over to public service, local artists, enthusiasts and activists, non-government organisations, free teams and groups of friends.
RUMB:
RUMB is a collective system of city survival
RUMB can be transported and used only thanks to (team) human muscle strength
RUMB can be put up anywhere where it is possible to enter or get by bike
RUMB has its aesthetic identity, it is a formal intervention in the city content
RUMB is a way of arranging of urban, educational and cultural situations in every corner of the world
RUMB protects from weather conditions
RUMB is operated by curators and invited festival guests in cooperation with local groups
RUMB answers with enthusiasm to all invitations and ideas
RUMB may be used by city initiatives, depending on their needs and operational potential, after the end of the festival
Photography: Weronika Szmuc
ArtBoom Festival 2011
ArtBoom Festival 2011
RUMB is a mobile, easy to transport and use, multifunctional city platform. In navigation, a rumb (compass point) is an angular measure used to define places on the horizon – it is an instrument of public cartography, which enables us to examine social possibilities of recovery and use of a city. RUMB is laid out on the wind rose plan – a colourful tent is spread over its eight corners, which creates a temporary shelter for a group of city nomads. The convoy moves through the city like a critical mass, transported on a dozen of bicycles pulling small trailers with equipment necessary to put up the tent, organise a meeting, a picnic or a discussion. RUMB works as a portable centre of city activity, an unplugged cultural institution. All that is needed to put it up is human muscle strength and enthusiasm of the participants. They can set off on city explorations together and put up the RUMB in any place in a very short time with the use of very small amount of work. RUMB does not need any external sources of energy, only minimum outlays are necessary in order to make it work. For the first festival days RUMB will be operated by Zarząd Kuratorski ZOM and selected Krakow organisations, after which he will be handed over to public service, local artists, enthusiasts and activists, non-government organisations, free teams and groups of friends.
RUMB:
RUMB is a collective system of city survival
RUMB can be transported and used only thanks to (team) human muscle strength
RUMB can be put up anywhere where it is possible to enter or get by bike
RUMB has its aesthetic identity, it is a formal intervention in the city content
RUMB is a way of arranging of urban, educational and cultural situations in every corner of the world
RUMB protects from weather conditions
RUMB is operated by curators and invited festival guests in cooperation with local groups
RUMB answers with enthusiasm to all invitations and ideas
RUMB may be used by city initiatives, depending on their needs and operational potential, after the end of the festival
Photography: Weronika Szmuc