Jobs: Anton Polsky, founder of the project "Partizaning"

What do you do in your work?

I'm traveling. I lecture. I publish article, lead page of our projects in social networks. The main of them - "Partizaning».

But also do a lot of hands, with the help of screwdriver and jigsaw. I am doing a variety of objects for my creative activity.

What is your occupation?

I find it difficult to answer this question. I studied at a graphic designer, he graduated from the University, "art historian".

I am a bad attitude toward school and threw the first institution of higher learning. However, over time, I come to that, I want to receive new knowledge. Therefore, I believe that it is important to enter a university, when you already know what you want to get away from it. Education - is an active, not a passive process. You must be able to filter the information, does not agree with the teachers, but to understand what is really important and it is necessary from the fact that you give the institution, and that you can close your eyes.

Now along with my artistic and other activities on the sociologist studying at the European University Master's in St. Petersburg. There's one of the best in the country humanitarian magistrates. I spent all of last year the lectures on gender studies, queer theory, urban sociology. Now I need to make all of this knowledge to practice, to rewrite their course and make a good study for the diploma. Individual lectures is good, but sometimes you want to immerse themselves in the educational environment.

What should know and be able to a person working in your field?

Contemporary artist, public figure, an intellectual in the first place should have a critical mind. In everyday understanding of criticism - is something negative. However, in professional discourse - this is definitely a positive quality. This ability to deconstruct events and phenomena, and to see them as real preconditions.

For the researcher (and I primarily do research and as an artist and as a sociologist) is very important to be able to listen, to give the word to people to know how to interpret them. It is also important to love the object of his research, whether it be a city person or group of people. It is important to have an unbiased attitude towards them.

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

I think that can always strengths are weak and vice versa. For example, my laziness will not let me do one thing twice. For the artist, it is good, I do not repeat myself. For the designer - it is bad, because I get bored with what I am doing well and I'm starting to learn something new.

I am happy when I can express myself when I'm surrounded by people who understand me, when I do not feel odd when busy with something interesting when I do not get bored.

How does your workplace?

I work anywhere: in the subway, in the yard, in the country, the city, the university library. Even when I worked in the office, I'm usually hanging around him with a laptop and sitting in its different parts.

I do not have a permanent home - living between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Nor yet always somewhere to go. So it is necessary to equip a house and workspace is the place where I currently am.

Until recently, I used a very old Apple laptop, hardly anyone else uses such. But it all worked: Photoshop, Illustrator, and so on. He recently broke down, and now I use it for operational affairs tablet.

The main programs to run on it - a package «Google Drive." There is very convenient to view and edit presentations and texts. Long text, of course, can not write, but something to correct or write a note - easily.

To write articles using stationary computers at the university or at the cottage parents, where often in recent years. As for presentations, texts and tables, then I curse Microsoft. Word came up with the fascists who hate users. I honestly do not understand how and why to use a PowerPoint, when there is «Google Drive."

In St. Petersburg, I conducted an experiment - not to use the phone. Generally. He lived in the center next to the university and the "Dial" (an open space, the mother of all anti-café) where hanging out and moonlighting, preparing coffee for his friends.

For a work of art using many different materials: colored adhesive tapes, screwdriver, jigsaw, a bicycle, a lot of stuff. Then he rented it to the camera. I have two of them, two - the compact.

Is there a place in your paper work?

I prefer paper books (although many are only in PDF). Draw me, too, more like on paper. Notes and to-do do at Google.

I chop on ecology, so opposed to print letters. Sometimes the print book to make notes in the margins. But I do this only if you know what I'll re-read text. Print to read once and then throw it in my opinion, criminal.

What is in your bag?

All my friends are moving their belongings in backpacks that sews our friend Ostap (Black Milk Records). I have several of his backpack. There usually is a tablet or a Nintendo 3DS (I do not like to carry a bunch of gadgets, so usually choose) and sometimes the camera. Often there is a marker tape and book. Sometimes - a notebook or notepad and pens for drawing.

I often try to go light, so that, sometimes, when I have nothing. Everything important is to «Google Drive" .:)

The journey to take with linen, at least change of clothes with the expectation of the weather forecast, book, container and solution for lenses, camera.

How do you organize your time?

I have organized my life as always wanted. I have plenty of time to walk around the city and to think. I am engaged in intellectual work, but I find it hard to sit around, so I was constantly embroiled in some kind of adventure. For example, for the past week with my girlfriend, we were made of plywood velodzhip for the new shares. We sat at the cottage in the morning drinking coffee, playing cards, and then sawed, drilled, dined, worked again. At the break, the game of basketball (recently also cut down makeshift shield). In the evening watching movies on a projector.

For a long time for me, time management was the biggest challenge. I often did not have time to do something in life, as I have always been an important result for me, not deadlines.

Now I perceived as a social construct. For example, you know that the modern understanding of time is closely related to the development of Western capitalism? Until the XVIII century the time was perceived much differently. Commodified time, that is, become a product.

I'm trying to be more independent of the capital market and, therefore, it was necessary to prioritize.

When I realized that for me is the most important, I have a lot of time there was the fact that I'm interested. Something that makes me very worried and did not have time, I just transferred to other people.

I'm against hierarchies and delegation. But the self-organization. I believe that most of the cases be interesting to someone to perform. There is always some kind of black work, for it is necessary well to pay or share it at all. Everything else should be on a prominent place, so you can always decide what project you interested in doing it.

What's your daily routine?

After the birth of her son began to wake up earlier. Now sit up in the morning I did not like so much as before. Now I'm more productive day. For me it is important to get enough sleep. Suck out the last resources of stimulants like coffee - not the best strategy.

In the morning, I often do some semblance of yoga. Breakfast (like cottage cheese). Then everything is very flexible. But a lot of time is spent on it to read some texts, respond to messages, think about plans for the next trip. In the evening we play or watch movies with my girlfriend and then go to bed in an embrace.

How to pass the time in traffic jams?

I ride a bike or skateboard, so do not stand in traffic jams. Now, when I live in the suburbs, I try more things to do here. When you need to drive an hour by train, taking with him a book, the Nintendo or tablet.

In the metro quite a long time in all cars have, therefore, there can be work, to read news. Sometimes I listen to music from your tablet. After moving to St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg began to perceive another rock, especially Tsoi. I think, mediocrity and climate allow much deeper to feel the music. In Moscow, I feel differently.

What's your hobby?

I like movies, video games, a variety of ways to get around the city. In general, I like the city, travel. I am interested in people, so I like to just talk to them. More, we played a lot of basketball.

What place sport occupies in your life?

As written above, I love basketball. Sometimes with her son still play football. Everything I can not find a partner for tennis.

I move around the city by bike or skateboard. Biking is good cleans the brain. I believe that this is the best form of transport, while sports.

I am inspired by cycling and skateboard around the city, movies, video games and my girl.

More in St. Petersburg three months I went to the pool. It was cool. I think this winter again recorded. Again, it is good cleans and refreshes the brain better than coffee.

In general, the sport in my life a lot.

Layfhakerstvo from Anton Polish

I read a lot of non-fiction. The main author - Michel Foucault. But I would not recommend it to anyone, because it is very difficult to read, even though it is the most important philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. Therefore I recommend the following book - "King Kong Theory" Virginie Depant.

My favorite directors - Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant, Woody Allen, Luis Bunuel. On the series no special time, so that the "Friends" and "The Simpsons", in my opinion, the best.

As for the video, I'm interested videorozygryshi, filming with a hidden camera, a direction psevdodokumentalistiki as mokyumentari. It may look like just a laugh, but this is often at the message. From the point of view of art is a separate direction. Therefore, a large list of recommendations here:

• Yes Men - American activists who made absurd action at conferences about them, there are two films and a lot of videos on YouTube.
• Trigger Happy TV - comic series from the 1990s with unrealistically great music, the best transfer in the genre.
• Video Remi Gaillard very funny and collected millions of views, recently, he directed the film himself (it should be noted that many of the ideas he took it from Trigger Happy).
• The New York filmmaker Casey Neistat few daffodil, but his on YouTube channel very good.

I've subscribed to Hyperallergic, TreeHugger, Colossal. Often something to find and subscribe to Facebook. There is Public in VK. My favorite - "Cemetery stupid tackles." The theme of sex and gender relations - one of the most interesting for me to work.

What is your life motto?

Put everything into question.

It is important to prioritize. As in the story about the dying, the majority of whom regretted only that too much work and too little time spent with those you love. Work and money - is only a means to achieve happiness and satisfaction. There are many other means. Children and close to you need not gifts, but merely note.