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PERFORMANCE ART AS A POTENTIAL FORM OF BENJAMINIAN AURATIC EXPERIENCE

Author(s): Daniela Vizireanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

The following paper aims to briefly analyze how Frankflurt School theorist Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘aura’ from his unfinished essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ can be reactualized in the context of performance art, using as a case of study the works of two émigré artists in North America between 70s – 80s: Ana Mendieta and Tehching Hsieh. Benjamin discusses the work of art in the age of its technical reproductibility in which the artistic product loose its authenticity, its uniqueness given by its creative process and its tradition throughtout the centuries (historical object). The auratic experience can be represented in the performative moment when the human body becomes, perhaps, the most authentic artistic product because the performer leaves himself to the will of the audience. In many cases, a performance can be considered interactive art because the audiece becomes the participant, as can be seen in the case of Marina Abramović and Chris Burden’s works. Hence, performance art has a powerful militant dimension in which its cultural and social worth are being assessed.

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NEO-INTERTEXTUALITY: FAN FICTION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON

Author(s): Andra-Astrid Belibou / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

Fan Fiction presents itself as a form of creative expression in which fans of various forms of media contribute to their communities with engaging stories. With the rising popularity of this genre as a vibrant and dynamic aspect of contemporary popular culture, this paper will provide an overview on its emergence, its particularities, and its roots in fan communities with the purpose of understanding how it shapes and reflects contemporary media landscapes. Further, the implications of Fan Fiction’s ties with intertextuality for notions of authorship, creativity, and participatory culture in an age in which the concept of authorship has begun to lose its meaning and value.

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Le Modèle Dramatique Du Roman Français Du XIXe Siècle

Author(s): Elena PRUS / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2023

The dramatic model is associated with the entire generation at the end of the 19th century, a time of “generalized staging” with a predisposition for the spectacular. The city is perceived as a scenic place. A true phantasmagorical space, the urban space dramatizes the inhabitants who are transformed, in turn, into actors. Paris, in the 19th century, was not only the place of famous world exhibitions, it became itself an object of exhibition, thus spreading its influence over people and things. All the French novelists of the 19th century experienced theatrical training, having launched certain dramatic projects (Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Daudet, Flaubert, and Goncourt). The novel of the studied period has a visible organization, dramatic pattern, and vision associated with a time that presupposes a generalized dramatization of society. The theatrical metaphor appears frequently in the 19th century novel to denounce the hypocrisy of society which hides dubious things under honest appearances. This is the leitmotif of the realist/naturalist novel, which aims at revealing and develop realities in profusion. Social relations, places, behaviors are placed under the sign of appearance, of the mask. The itinerary of the characters consists in learning the scenic regularities behind the scenes of the sets, as well as the techniques, which precede the performance. The success of the hero is largely based on his skills to play the role. The drama of the novel speaks of the fragile boundary between genres in the 19th century and characterizes the new poetics of the novel.

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Relations of dance culture and social structure in a Moldavian rural community

Author(s): Vivien Bondea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The social structure of the Moldavian Csángó settlements and the social systems that form in the dance scenes significantly determine the possibility of participation in dance occasions and the formal and stylistic performance of dances. The gender, age, and marital status of community members, as well as the specific position of dancers and the relationship between them, are revealed in dance forms and practices of space use on the dance floor, individual dance construction, and dancers’ behaviour. Through the study of local dance cultures, a social structure is observable that is held together by gendered and generationally defined norms, rules, and obligations. This makes dancing a socially defined collective activity in rural communities in Moldavia, Romania. The aim of this study is to interpret the representational practices of age and social status in dance culture, which are constantly changing, through the example of dance events, especially weddings, in a single Moldavian Csángó village.

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ZAANGAŻOWANIE ŚRODOWISKA TEATRALNEGO W SPRAWY PUBLICZNE W OKRESIE OD CZERWCA 1989 DO GRUDNIA 1990 ROKU. REKONESANS

Author(s): Przemysław Brzuszczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

This paper is an attempt at analysing the involvement of the theatrical community in public affairs in the period extending from the June 1989 elections and the preceding electoral campaign, to the downfall of Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet in December 1990. The community opinion leaders jointly supported the direction of political transition presented by “our Prime Minister’s” government. The old masters (Gustaw Holoubek, Andrzej Łapicki, Andrzej Szczepkowski, Andrzej Wajda) decided to run in the 1989 elections under the banner of “Solidarność”, while the director of the Teatr Nowy in Poznań (Izabella Cywińska) was appointed Minister of Culture and Art in Mazowiecki’s cabinet. The group of supporters of the Prime Minister, as well as his political team, included many of the leading figures from theatre circles. This paper highlights their public activity, the means of expression they used for this purpose, and the fora where such activity occurred. The theatrical community, already well-accustomed to an allusive style of acting, so characteristic of the Polish People’s Republic, had problems finding its way in the newly emerging liberal democracy.

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From Post-Modernism To Critical Art

Author(s): Grzegorz Jarmocewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

“[…]. Human existence – a vast, unlimited space of reflections on life and death, in the fields of philosophy, morals, history, culture… Grzegorz Jarmocewicz, reaching into all these areas and categories, gives us his own interpretations to launch in us layers of associations and references to our own experiences. […]”. Critic, art historian Marek Grygiel. “[…]. Jarmocewicz’s work presents a variety in the form of a search. It contains a modernist tradition, as well as an oppositional, postmodernist tradition. From the psychological side, through a specific form, it is contained between heaven and hell. […]”. Critic, art historian Dr. Krzysztof Jurecki. “ […]. (His photographs are) economic reflections of the diversity of cultural codes, which are the artist’s modest contribution to certain areas of reflection, at the same time defining them and remaining outside the framework of the term […]”. Prof. Jerzy Olek. “ […]. He fits in with his attitude and creative search in the area of photographers of philosophers who, with the help of their pictures-photographs, reflect on life, death, time, history, culture. […]”. Prof. Marek Szyryk.

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Walking with a Camera

Author(s): Peter Korček / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

In his work, the author primarily focuses on the urban landscape and its impacts on human life. His entire documentary work is linked by a unified authorial idea. In the “Jungle City” cycle, he works with the visual counterpart of the current form of the Bratislava metropolis, full of transportation routes, dense modern development, and concrete surfaces. The means to create unexpected views of the city for him are carefully selected locations on the urban peripheries surrounded by dense vegetation – trees and wild grasses. He thus achieves a completely new view of Bratislava, in which it returns to the wilderness. The project “Quiet Sunday Afternoons in the Town by the Refinery” is the author’s reflection on the impacts of industry in the rural surroundings. The focal point is the technical structure of an oil factory, which covers a significant part of an otherwise tranquil landscape of a small Austrian town. However, through austere visual expression, Korček delivers an urgent message about the adverse impact of the factory on the ecosystem. As part of the series “Here Is Our Paradise”, which unifies the theme of lawns and trees, Korček addresses the disruption of the stereotype of urban housing estates through the small self-help interventions of their residents. While walking with a camera, he supplements these plants with various found mixtures of folk interventions placed in front of panel buildings. In the “Searching” series, he adopts the position of an observer of urban movement, consisting of figures of pedestrians in narrow rays of the low-lying sun. This time he works in the environment of New York, but unlike the previous series, he does not specify this location, only utilizing its elemental potential. Korček does not work with photographic effects; he fully utilizes the poetics of the chosen locations. He skillfully works with perspective, multiple plans, or the selection of a location. Through their specific combination, he succeeds in creating authentic images of the location, in which we still find a lot of personal fantasy.

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Discourse Of Expression Of Image Representations In Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

Author(s): Hana Pravdová,Magdaléna Ungerová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The presented study deals with the issue of the discourse of pictorial portrayals in present-day audiovisual culture. The authors aim to find the basic parameters of the current discourse and discursive practices within audiovisual creation, especially film and television. They define basic concepts and categories and submit them to analysis. From this aspect, they examine aesthetic categories, especially aesthetic values ​​and functions in relation to the interpretation of image representations. They formulate the premise that the expressions of visual presentations are reflections of the digital technical-technological platform of audiovisual making, the ethos of postmodernity and postmodernism, and the ideal of consumption of experiences as one of the most important values ​​of present-day Western civilization. In a logical sequence, they deal with the matter of the ethos and value-related frameworks of postmodernism as relevant factors that condition the discursive practices of audiovisual creators. On the other hand, they name the mindsets of individuals, recipients of audiovisual statements, testifying to their specific desires for emotional encounters. They reach the conclusion that the discourse of the expression of visual representations in contemporary audiovisual culture has clearly defined parameters of creative approaches and reception expectations.

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Men With No Story. On The Work And Exhibition Kronos By Martina Lukić

Author(s): Martina Ivičič / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The article reviews Martina Lukić's exhibition "Kronos," which juxtaposes analog and digital photography, specifically the historical anthotype technique with AI-generated visuals. Lukić explores the relationship between subject and object, creating anthotypic portraits using AI tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. The process involves generating negatives, applying natural dyes like turmeric and cherry juice to paper, and exposing them to UV light. The exhibition reflects on themes of time, power, and the ephemeral nature of images, questioning the distinction between human and AI perception of wisdom and emotion.

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Świat orientu w baśniach Bolesława Leśmiana. Wizja pisarza, odbiór czytelniczy i recepcja teatralna

Author(s): Adrian Uljasz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2016

The theme of the article is a vision of the world of the Orient, presented by Boleslaw Leśmian in Klechdy sezamowe and in the novel Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza, as well as readers’ and theaters’ reception of those pieces. The aim of the author was to popularize the vision of the writer in terms of problem-analyzing and to see how his pieces are received by the audience. The author analyzed the literary works of Leśmian, their reviews and other source materials connected to them. He analyzed the most important graphic editions of both books. He studied the opinions found on the Internet reading portals, paying attention to their quality and quantity. Knowledge about the reception of theaters’ came from analysis of the data on portal e-teatr.pl, posters, placards and theatre programs, as well as press releases. Research results were synthesized in the text of the publication. From the analysis of the research materials it appears that tales of Leśmian are still popular among both children and adults. They are also highly rated by readers. Adaptations of these works are very popular in theaters. The reception of Klechdy sezamowe and Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza shapes openness to cultural diversity of people reading books and visiting theaters.

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(Nie tylko) książki o sztuce dla młodego odbiorcy

Author(s): Sylwia Borowik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2014

The aim of the article is to present the selected educational books on art, which can be divided into: informative positions, encyclopedic positions, exhibitions guides and books promoting cultural institutions; books inspired by the selected artworks; “kreatywniki – ćwiczenniki” (creativebooks – exercisebooks; books which develop the child’s creativity). These are books that promote art collections, exhibitions, and other artistic-cultural events, as well as develop the imagination and creativity of a young reader. It is extremely important for the children to take part in a widely understood culture, and thanks to educational books they shape their artistic sense and gain the habit of interacting with art.

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Styl ilustracji Edwarda Okunia w czasopiśmie „Chimera”

Author(s): Ewelina Saczko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2005

In 1901-1907, Edward Okuń was the illustrator of “Chimera”, a Warsaw literary and ar-tistic magazine. In his work, he yielded to the influence of secession and to the climate of symbolism. When illustrating literary works, he omitted their literal meanings, in favour of their synthetic generalizations, and he treated their contents only as an inspiration of original artistic visions. In his pictures, he visualized those text fragments and motifs which were characterized by extreme emotions, e.g. sorrow, despair, euphoria. In his compositions, Okuń used imagery drawing upon both symbolism (fantastic visions of longing, spiritual travel, death), and impressionism (graphic expression of the emotions hidden in the creations of the characters), formally utilizing achievements of secession, tradition of pre-Raphaelites, and elements of Japanese art. Thus, he created unique illustrations kept within the symbolic-fantastic trend. The article presents graphic transpositions of the literary contents, based on the examples of Okuń’s illustrations to the following works: J. Zayer’s King Kofetua, A. Lange’s Ponder-ings, T. Miciński’s In the Darkness of the Stars, B. Leśmian’s A Fairy Tale of the Lord’s Knight, and J. Kasprowicz’s Judas, published in “Chimera”.

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Izvještaji podružnica BZK “Preporod” u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Edvin Alijanović,Edin Jašarević,Amir Sijamhodžić,Zijad Bešlagić,Senad Hađić,Nadira Pamuković,Resul Čilić,Haris Omerika,Ahmer Škrijelj,Razim Slanjankić,Taik Ganić,Sahudina Beganović,Damir Bešič,Adisa Heldovac / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2022

Reports of BZK "Preporod" branches in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Egzystencje śmietnikowe (Rachela Auerbach, Bruno Schulz)

Author(s): Jacek Leociak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1-2/2023

The refuse heap in the ghetto landscape is truly incredible. Its horror probably originates from overstepping its, seemingly, natural territory. The ghetto dump appears to break free from the frames, ruptures the form, passes from lifelessness to a sui generis life, ceases to be a motionless pile of refuse and assumes inner power. Ghetto rubbish dumps, i.e. junk, wretched remnants of people’s lives cast into the street, empty shells of existence – such is the landscape of the Holocaust. And yet in these piles of “dead” refuse there pulsates some sort of dark energy, while processes of biological transformation: rot, decay, and mould – symptoms of that life, last endlessly. People who left behind this rubbish had been changed into ashes cast into rivers and scattered on fields. They enter the great cycle of the transformations of Nature. Holocaust is annihilation. It consumes people, whilst each person has his own face, history, and place on Earth. He leaves behind a void. Nothing will fill it. And yet I find it difficult to cease thinking that some sort of a form of life goes on uninterruptedly in an extraordinary manner, perceivable only from a global, planetary perspective. I cannot grasp this aporia of annihilation and duration.

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Wenecja widziana inaczej

Author(s): Francesco M. Cataluccio / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2023

“I was conceived in the mid-1950s in a humble Venetian hotel at the back of a train station, during a love escapade of my mother and her professor”. The presented text, written at the time of a suspension of the pandemic, is the author’s subjective perception of Venice (Cataluccio was Venetian by birth and a resident of Milan). This unique image, lined with personal emotions, is distant from Baedekerian obviousness. From time to time the vivid personal perspective contained in it is counterpointed by poetry (Josif Brodski, Tomas Venclowa) and drama (Simone Weil).

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Wojenny dziennik (fragmenty)

Author(s): Olga Grebennik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2023

Using only a notebook and pencil, the author describes a living space shrinking day by day, the first days of the war in a basement, the sudden evacuation from Kharkiv, and the experience of being a war refugee. At the same time, this illustrated war diary is an affective record of family history.

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Sprawa Łesia Kurbasa i teatru Berezil na posiedzeniu kolegium Ludowego Komisariatu Oświaty USSR Stenogram zebrania z 5 października 1933

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2023

The Case of Les and the Berezil Theatre at a Session of the Soviet Commissariat for Education. Transcript from a Meeting Held on 5 October 1933.

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Człowiek skoworodyński (ku człowiekowi szewczenkowskiemu i gogolowskiemu)

Author(s): Rostyslav Chopyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2023

The concept of a “Skovorodian” or “follower of Skovoroda” (after M. Shlemkevych, Y. Lypa, V. Janiv, and others) is usually understood to be a Ukrainian from the second half of the eighteenth century, for whom the greatest authority was the itinerant Ukrainian philosopher Hrihorii Skovoroda and the latter’s supposed quietism – an escape to one’s inner self, Nature, and moral self-improvement, together with indifference towards all that is external, paltry, and social. The silent consent of such a follower supposedly accompanied the fall of the Hetmanate, while processes at the turn of the eighteenth century, with far-reaching consequences (the onset of modern Ukrainian literature and identity), took place already without his participation. The author of the article disputes with similar opinions by arguing that I. Kotliarevsky, founder of modern Ukrainian literature, viewed the world “through the eyes of a Skovorodian” (after M. Hrushevsky, O. Rusov, S. Yefremov, and L. Ushkalov), and situating the initial impulse for the works of T. Shevchenko within the domain of influence exerted by Skovoroda. Moreover, Rostislav Chopyk launches a thesis about the “crisis of Gogol’s prose” (after E. Bojanowska) and the existential decline of M. Gogol, whose last years were maintained in an anti-Skovoroda spirit. Skovoroda’s philosophy proves to be a criterion of the Ukrainian spirit upon the threshold of the self-formation of modern identity. A “Skovorodian” was compelled to choose “between Gogol and Shevchenko” (af ter J. Łucki), i.e. between a follower of Gogol, who accepted the empire, and that of Shevchenko, who challenged it.

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Arhitectura gonflabilă Scurtă istorie critică a utilizărilor în arhitectură

Author(s): Irina-Mihaela Moise / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 15/2023

The pandemic crisis, as a turning point in recent history, has caused existing resources to be mobilized in a short time and triggered the emergence of unique approaches to spatial reorganization. With their formal freedom, unlimited adaptability and short production cycle times, lightweight inflatable or pneumatic structures, which are still in the midst of a technological boom, are an undeniable source of inspiration for today's crisis adaptation. Beyond pragmatic features such as ergonomics, protection and cleanliness, a variety of stylistic approaches can be identified, ranging from small-scale, minimal interventions in interior architecture, to large-scale, urban interventions. The article reviews the sources of inspiration that cross time and space, moving from the utopias of the 1960s to the emergency projects of the 21st century, with the aim of highlighting, through the broad spectrum of solutions, a direction to follow in architecture adapted to crisis solutions. Inflatable structures still fascinate, having the potential to be symbolic in any context.

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Antagonizam okcidentalnog određenja umjetnosti i karakterizacije modaliteta diskursa qadar/sina'ata

Author(s): Mehmed A. Akšamija / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 2/2023

The paper analyzes the relationship between Occidental-Westernized understanding of art and a possible status of art within an integrated discourse – al-thawābit al-islāmiyyah, as well as the aesthetic-metaphysical experience of the traditional Islamic systematization of knowledge – ṣināʿat al-kitābah, and the action of making a visual form beautiful – ṣināʿat al-taṣwīr. Particular attention attention is attached to the concept of qadar/ṣināʿat, where it is possible to distinguish between homo islamicus’s ornamental activity of recognitive type and the cognitive productive-reflective representation of collaborative disposition. Due to the simultaneous existence of unity and difference within the aestheticized activity/ṣināʿat of recognitive type (ornamental form) – al-ṣināʿat al-zukhrufiyyah, the paper strives to show that the traditional systematization of knowledge provides the most complete expression to the aesthetic meaning of the unity-difference dialectic, which is in turn manifested in the qadar/ṣināʿat discourse under the umbrella of ṣināʿat al-taḥsīn – the issue of the modalities of discourse in the context of pictorial activity/ṣināʿat rather than fann al-taḥsīn. Still, a particular emphasis is placed on the parallel existence of a kind of informative initiation of applied form – al-ṣināʿat al-taṭbīqiyah aimed at achieving a distinctive content-related goal of aestheticized activity/ṣināʿat of homo islamicus, where he is not involved in imitation or figural representation with a special importance of the pure figural phantasm (miniature visual representation/books of Arabic and Persian manuscript). The paper also analyzes and substantiates meanings of the Arabic word al-fann, and raises the question as to why the word al-fann has been selected to refer to the phenomenon of art in modern Arabic, rather than the word al-ṣināʿah (skill, practical knowledge). To articulate the answer, the paper studies the words in Arabic lexicographic, non-lexical, i.e. semantic tradition, and substantiates and defines the reason for the established use of the word al-ṣināʿah within qadar/ṣināʿat, i.e. the science of the pictorial – ʿilm al-taṣāwīr.

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