Już Po Osiekach?
Has Osieki Definitely Finished?

Summary/Abstract: The text presents a method to interpret the phenomena of the International Meetings ofArtists, Researchers and Art Theoreticians in Osieki. This is enabled by describing several key artistic strategies and their application in later activities - as a kind of pattern and matrix for independent artistic initiatives. The presented events, which took place after 1981, after the end of Osieki, displays the power of their influence and the same recurring need lying behind the majority of similar actions, allowing for understanding of the phenomenon of specific methods used by artists organizing themselves to create situations and spaces that ensure them great freedom.The strategies present in the functioning of Osieki, transferred in varying degrees to many initiatives of the decade of the eighties are, among others, occasional publications submitted by the participants themselves and distributed among themselves, expanding the circle of participants to include people outside the so-called art world, searching for alternative places favorable for their meetings and confrontations.The text describes such phenomena as Private art, Pitch-in Culture, alternative places of art, artistic publications: Fabryka, Tango and independent artistic events: Artistic Kolęda[Christmas call] and Pilgrimage, Meetings in Teofilów, Meetings in Karlino. Those initiatives, as well as many others under taken in the decade of the eighties, combined the extraordinary energy and unconventional courage of the participants. However, they were not only the result of confrontation with the political situation of that time, but also sprang from the immutable value pervading the spirit of art - the need for freedom. Presented strategies can be found in numerous initiatives undertaken in the following decades, up to the present day.

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