Understanding with Water: Hydro-art in Osieki (1973)
Understanding with Water: Hydro-art in Osieki (1973)
Author(s): Karolina Majewska-GüdeSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: art history; blue humanities; neo-avant-garde; plein-airs; environmental art
Summary/Abstract: The paper is located at the intersection of the art history of the Polish neo-avant-garde and the environmental humanities informed by feminist new materialisms. It proposes an interpretation of performative works in which artists used aqueous matter as an object of interaction, a source of artistic transcription, and as an active participant in artistic scenarios. It concentrates on works that were realized during the open-air art meetings in socialist Poland and in particular at the Osieki meeting in 1973 with the title The Art of Water Surfaces [Plastyka obszarów wodnych]. Based on the analyzed works, it offers a speculative reflection on Hydroart, which is defined as region-specific development parallel to land art practices.
Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
- Issue Year: 48/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 356-374
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English