Przekształcanie Porządku. Osiecka Performatyzacja Sztuki Według Jana Dobkowskiego
Transformation of Order. Introducing the Performisation of Art at Osieki According to Jan Dobkowski

Summary/Abstract: Performance actions – including the performances of Jan Dobkowski – manifested themselves as an instrument for exploring reality at the Osieki plein airs in the 1970s and 1980s, and they became an element in the fine-tuning of Dobkowski’s artistic approach. His creative strategy was centred on a radical return to the rules of natural existence as a font for human emotions (and flights of emotion), the role and significance of which came to be fully appreciated by way of the neo-avantgarde shift from art to creative endeavour, what with the autotelic value of art supplanted by a showcasing of the author’s own identity. Dobkowski’s oft-repeated call for establishing an organic relationship to nature enabled the forging of a path meaningful enough to reorient the very sense of existence, with eutrapelia thrown in for good measure.In this context, eutrapelia is simply about the ability to have a good time, yet – even though it refers to a desire to enjoy fun and recreation while retaining a healthy balance – eutrapelia is not an end in and of itself. First and foremost, eutrapelia ought to assist in the regeneration of vital powers, which might then be tapped for pleasure, providing intellectual succor in achievement of the formulated goals/objectives.In this understanding, eutrapelia may be woven into the tropes describing the possibilities for affective transformation, contributing to a new understanding of the facetious in art on the one hand and open to new artistic procedures in the face of an indoctrinated reality on the other.

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