„Winning is strictly prohibited”. O strategiach twórczych Banksy’ego i Jana Klaty

• Authors: Michalina Lubaszewska

Title variants

EN

“Winning is strictly prohibited”. On Banksy’s and Jana Klata’s creative strategies

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes the activities of two socially committed artists: Banksy and Jan Klata, who both use the funfair motif. Banksy employs it in a literal though subversive way in his project Dismaland, which is a quizzical reversal of Disneyland. Klata employs it in his performances (which often take the form of the director’s comments on the reality that surrounds us), showing a set of “amusements” resembling those from a funfair and leading the viewer to a perceptive dissonance (similarly to the collection of Eisenstein’s amusements). It seems that the space created by the committed art that uses the concept of a funfair allows for the implementation of a real rebellion against the status quo. Actual amusement parks, however, create only an illusion of the possibility to break with the norms of the social system.

Keywords

PL

funfair; subversion; ludic; Banksy; Jan Klata

EN

funfair; subversion; ludic; Banksy; Jan Klata

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2010

Dates

published

2020-10-30

Contributors

author

Michalina Lubaszewska

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/SSP.2020.16.07