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Full of feeling and cheerful meeting with Elvis Rromano, a teacher in a Gypsy school somewhere in the countryside of Romania, a fellow country of the European Union. He looks and dresses like Elvis Presley. A guitar and the evergreen songs of Elvis are his permanent companions. Giving an insight into the life of Gypsy-people`s in an untroubled manner, Elvis actually points out the crucial issues of Gypsy roots, European Union identity-politics, the social mobility of Gypsy and his own Otherness in European society. `Hello I am Elvis Rromano. Elvis Rromano means Gypsy Elvis, it?s because I sing Presley?s songs in the Gypsy language. I love what I do, and I do it with passion. I?m unique, I sing in Gypsy. Why? The old Gypsies love Elvis, but they don?t understand his lyrics, many of them don?t know English. So it was a gift for them. Elvis in my very own way, with my own words, in my language, in Gypsy. My lyrics are deeper, more serious. I sing about my roots and my feelings, my own life, as well as the life of the Gypsies. There?s one more reason. I discovered that Elvis was half-Gypsy, from his mother site`

Robert Rumas (b. 1966) ? visual artist and curator, associated with the current of critical art.; a graduate of Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts; co-founder of Wyspa Gallery in Gdańsk. He creates installations, performances and actions in public space. His works use objects of religious cult, placing them in a non-religious context. His most famous projects include Termofory X 8 (Waterbottles X 8) and Manewry miejskie (City Maneouvers). Simultaneously to his artistic works he has been organizing space and set design in multimedia and theatre performances since 2004. He lives and works in Warsaw. Piotr Wyrzykowski alias Peter Style (b. 1968) - media artist, performer ans set designer. Studied interior architecture and media art at the Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk. He made his debut as a performer in 1990. In his practice he uses video, photography, Internet and sound - creating performances, installations, projects in public space, network projects and multimedia plays. Cofounder and artistic director of CUKT. The best known project of the group was ?Presidential Campaign of Wiktoria Cukt? that proposed a virtual candidate for the President of Poland. He`s work ?Beta Nassau? (1993) is in the collection of MoMA, New York. He lives and works in Gdansk & Kiev.