Mordor Actually Exists In Warsaw

It covers area of 325 hectares (802 acres). Every day 100 thousand of orcs traverse it, leaving their time, health and energy behind. And there is no ring that can destroy it. On the contrary – it constantly develops. It is the second biggest, after Warsaw’s city center, concentration of offices of various corporations in Poland. Its artistic visions can be seen on International Office Art Biennale.

Glazed office centers tightly fill the area. In conjunction with hundreds of parked cars, filling every spot possible, they create a picture of inhuman land, in which “robots” focus on their cases, challenges and deadlines under the watchful eye of the almighty corporate Sauron. During rush hours jammed streets and filled to the last spot trams and buses do not set optimistic mood before or after work. During 20 years of this ‘corpo-district’ development, orcs have created a metropolitan oasis of ‘corpo-humans’, having their own language and style and at the same time building an alternative, underground world, in which they try to maintain human sense of humor and healthy perspective when it comes to work.

Polish orcs have much better ways of communication than a notice-board in Barad-dur fortress. Facebook profile “Mordor on Domaniewska” (named after one of the district’s main streets) has gathered over 120 thousand fans and once every month Gandalf distributes a free, satiric newspaper “Mordor voice” to the pederastians. But Mordor also has a dark side, amongst others the already mentioned never ending traffic jams are being noticed by some of employers, who decide to leave this area for more convenient locations. Will this put Mordor at a disadvantage? Not at all, vacated spots are rapidly filled by other companies and developers constantly release more and more office buildings. And although officially the name of this corpo-district is “Służewiec Przemysłowy”, majority of people know it as “Mordor”.

„We are sure there are other Mordors in the world, in which orcs try to save their humanity through art. We would like to encourage them to submitting photos and videos, artistically showing the surroundings they work in” – says Krzysztof Biliński of International Office Art Biennale (IOAB) team. As part of IOAB the biggest online gallery of office art is being created. Its organisers encourage office employees to create their own office art and share it on platform: www.internationalofficeartbiennale.com.

Everyone can take part in IOAB, regardless their position or work duties. There is still a year to closing of the first IOAB competition.

More info: internationalofficeartbiennale.com