Rykoszety upodmiotowieniaw autobiograficznych opowieściach uznanych artystów wizualnych
The ricochets of subjectivation in the life stories of renowned visual artists

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a theoretical proposal grounded in the material of non-anonymous autobiographical narrative interviews with renowned Polish visual artists. The concept of ricochets of subjectivation names a particular process structure found in the interviews. It also critically modifies the metaphor of trajectory, popular in sociology. The concept characterises the process of developing an idiosyncratic life and creative project of the artist, against the backdrop of the former achievements of the modern art discourse, including works of the masters, as well as the structure of the positions in the local art field and the work of contemporary competitors. The paper discusses in more detail fragments of an interview with the Polish sculptor, video artist and performer Katarzyna Kozyra, which most significantly inspired the concept described. The literary form of the main part of the text seeks to search for new ways of doing sociography. That is, weaving a story, that is at the same time an idiographic representation, and a result of analytical and theoretical work.

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