Wspólnota Wyobraźni Jako Dyssensus. VIII Spotkanie Artystów i Teoretyków Sztuki Świdwin/Osieki (1970)
A Community of Imagination as Dissensus. The 8th Artists and Art Theoreticians Meeting in Świdwin/Osieki (1970)

Summary/Abstract: The text aims to reflect on the meaning of artistic utterances presented at the 8th Artists and Art Theoreticians Meeting in Świdwin/Osieki, Poland, 1970 in relation to the horizon of events in Poland in 1968. I focus particularly on Jerzy Ludwiński’s first lecture “Postartistic Era” and on several works by artists (such as Jan Chwałczyk, Wanda Gołkowska, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Jarosław Kozłowski, Natalia LL, etc. ) who responded and interacted with the critic’s lecture. I also recall the context of selected phenomena as well as social and cultural processes around the year1968 that have proceeded and accompanied the plain-air meeting. I view the time between June1968 - December 1970 as a particular micro period in Polish art history that can be described as a long-term-duration structure on one hand and as bearing distinctive principles on the other.Finally, I reflect on the ensuing ideas of the Osieki plain-air meeting in 1970, especially with regard to the category on imagination. I assert that they bore not just the character of critique or contestation, but should be recognized as another, not commonly recognized in Polish art history,form of discourse of resistance – dissensus. In the case of the 1970 Osieki meeting, I consider the dissensus as a discursive disconnection of the then prevailing “distribution of the sensible”, as multiple small but meaningful constellations of tactics of differentiating from the post-March 1968world. In the case of the works presented in Osieki, dissensus did not rely on negation, but on the gesture of rebuilding, working with imagination which has been weakened or destroyed as a result of the events between June 1967 and August 1970.

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