Nocne perwersje. Miejska OFFerta nie do odrzucenia
Nighttime Perversions. The Irresistible Urban OFFer

Summary/Abstract: Night. Town. People. People in a town at night. In this text the author observed the configuration of relations between the above categories. Upon the example of OFF PIOTRKOWSKA, an alternative culture venue located in Łódź, he attempted to demonstrate the course of the revitalisation of this particular spot and its re-introduction into the cultural circuit of the significant forms and contents of city life. While endeavouring to describe the parameters characterising the night as a cultural category the author took a closer look at urban space with a specific history of its own and transformations occurring under the impact of mutually connected economic factors associated with a global flow of information, fashion, and pop-cultural trends relating to the urban lifestyle, all instilled into local contexts (in this particular case - those of Łódź). The text refers to the town’s history at the time when it flourished as an industrial centre as well as to its most recent past so as to show the various forms and meanings, which this concrete space (a former factory quarter) in Piotrkowska Street acquired. From a workplace, an abandoned dystopia, and a non-place it revolved into a space acclaimed to be one of the Polish wonders of the world, which every Friday night resonates with sounds, music, conversations, and fun, shimmers with colours and scents, and which by constantly assuming new forms fulfils the requirements and anticipations both of its residents and the owners of the entertainment complex.

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