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Procedura i proces. Piśmienna sztuka performance Jadwigi Sawickiej
Procedure and Process: Jadwiga Sawicka’s Writing Performance Art

Author(s): Agnieszka Karpowicz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: performance art; contemporary art; Jadwiga Sawicka; improvisation; writing procedures

Summary/Abstract: In this article Karpowicz analyses and interprets Jadwiga Sawicka’s work through the prism of literacy practices, from a media perspective and with reference to Tim Ingold’s category of improvisation. In order to fully understand Sawicka’s works of fine art, Karpowicz argues, we must take into account not only their visual dimension but also the processes and procedures that lead to their creation in the first place. By considering these processes and procedures, which are meaning-making just like the cultural functions of the literacy practices discussed in this article, we are able to view the artist’s works in terms of replaying and problematizing the automatisms of social processes and their main mechanisms and principles, already contained within the microstructure of the process of writing.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 183-204
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish