Autoutopie i doświadczenia kryzysu w praktykach life writing Erny Rosenstein i Urszuli Broll
Self-Utopias and Experiences of Crisis in the Life Writing Practices of Erna Rosenstein and Urszula Broll

Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt to analyze the life writing practices of neo-avant-garde visual artists: Erna Rosenstein and Urszula Broll, through the concept of self-utopia and ex- periences of crisis. The source of knowledge on this subject are not only objects of art (paintings, drawings, artistic objects), but also literary texts (poetry, prose), notes of dreams, memories, private notes from the artists’ archives. The author considers the relations between the sense of crisis and disintegration experienced by both artists and their utopian vision of art and artistic practice, including writing activity (poetry, fairy tales). This interpretation is prompted by the perception of Rosenstein’s and Broll’s works as mediumistic and meditative, which allowed them to develop spiritual prac- tices, as well as the perspective of the artists’ self-utopian art-life projects, the assump- tions of which are consistent with post-anthropocentric humanistic thought.

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