L O M I C J E "Lomicja is an event which can be suspected of being a work of art." This nonexistent word was coined by Marek Janiak in the 1980s, later Andrzej Świetlik and Przemysław Kwiek came up with a definition, and today the word functions as a slogan in this anniversary publication of Łódź Kaliska. Lomicje is the third album promoting the activities of the group, after God Envies us Our Mistakes and New Pop. It has been published to celebrate the 300-year-anniversary of the group, and, along so far unpublished archive material, it also features documentation of the group's most recent artistic activities. Lomicje's archive is opened with the event from 1985 in the ZAPF Gallery, entitled "The Vehicle", during which, in front of the public, the artists built and set in motion the titular vehicle. Other events illustrated and commented on in the album include such actions performed by the artists as: Total Fall II, recreated on the basis of the scenario of the happening from 1981 which took place in Kraków's main Market Square; Romeo in his first car, a sponsored lecture about the beauty of male anatomy prepared for the group's 20th anniversary; and performance Large Glass, acted out time and again in 1999/2000. Lomicje also features behind-the-scenes details of an advertising campaign for tights, conducted under the slogan: Return to the origins, during which the notorious action of photographing a nude Muse in front of The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery took place. A series of new photographs is concluded with Comic of Life made in 2005, which in an amusing way and with a moral twist describes the adventures of such characters as a 15-year-old Captain and the Queen of Ice-cream, and a session "For-Freedom" organized in a prison in Piotrków Trybunalski. Among artworks featured in the album there are also richly illustrated records from the exhibitions entitled: Palta nie Palta, Gelati Italiani, Hiperart, and Live Advertisement of High Art. This brief synopsis of Lomicje would not be complete without mentioning the photographs from preliminary castings, like those taken on location of Łódź Kaliska's feature film Shoes, with the guest starring of Spoon or Chilli, and the photographic reportage from the festival Burning Man in the Nevada Desert. As far as the written chronicling of the album is concerned, Lomicje Archives is opened by an article describing New Pop as a kind of consciously utilized strategy which reproduces mechanisms of the world of advertising in the sphere of art. Another interesting piece of criticism is the text by Ewa Nowina-Sroczyńska, who introduces the notion of carnivalisation to describe the artistic activities of the group, using as an example the action of the opening of their permanent exhibition Pure Art in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Łódź. Above all, however, Lomicje is a retrospective album featuring the most recent works by Łódź Kaliska. All the photographs from the following exhibitions have been presented: Identical Three Twins (2006), The Alementarz (2007), How to Kill Art (2007), and May Men Rot (2009). In spite of the fusion of various tendencies and avoidance of direct implications, consistency in the actions undertaken by the artists can be observed in the 360 pages of Lomicje album. The material collected in Lomicje is inscribed in the current debates of art criticism, an example of which is the text by Małgorzata Butterwick, "How shocking! Look at that woman! Beneath her dress she's stark naked!" In the form of an experimental intertext it recreates the discussion instigated on an internet forum, which followed the exhibition May Men Rot in the CSW in Warsaw. Promoted by Łódź Kaliska, Lomicja has become an art of negotiation of meaning and positioning towards constant revaluation.