Ciało jako przedmiot praktyk ascetycznych w sztuce współczesnej (Opałka, Dudek-Dürer, Orlan)

• Authors: Białkowski, Łukasz

Title variants

EN

Body as the Object of Ascetic Experience (Opałka, Dudek-Dürer, Orlan)

Abstracts

EN

I'd like to consider the activities of three artists - Roman Opalka, Andrzej Dudek-Dürer and Orlan - as a contemporary form of asceticism. If we envisage a homeostatic relation between body and mind to be a 'normal state', the asceticism tends to undermine it. In the perspective of asceticism body is a ballast which should undergo practices of depreciation. Although these practices are justified in religious contexts, in a context of the art and secularized culture they seem to be an aberration. I'd like to outline motivations of Opalka, Dudek-Dürer and Orlan and relations between body and mind which their art evokes. Do they really act at the edge of pathology or do they rather express - may be extremely - the condition of contemporary human being and his or her body?

Keywords

EN

body; contemporary form of asceticism; mind

PL

ciało; współczesna forma ascezy; umysł

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 215-224

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Białkowski, Łukasz

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/479

DOI

10.15290/idea.2011.23.12