2025- Ongoing
Twice a year in the Polish countryside, about an hour from Warsaw, a group of locals gathers to create a fictional American trailer park town. They immerse themselves in a detailed live-action role-play that centers around a small-town Fourth of July celebration. Participants take on roles inspired by familiar American characters such as beauty queens, sheriffs, pastors, and disillusioned veterans. The organizers describe the event as a shared fantasy rather than a satire. Based largely on portrayals and comsumption of American life in mass media, the imagined town exists in a space that blends admiration with critique. This Polish interpretation of Trump-era America is rich with symbolism, exploring themes of nationalism, social fragmentation, and the idea of identity as something performed. In a time of global instability, the event casts a strange and revealing light on the fragility of American reality. It shows how the crisis of identity in the United States is perceived, interpreted, and ritualized from abroad. What began as a form of escapist fantasy has become part of a more complicated and uneasy conversation about a world that feels increasingly uncertain.
