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THE SPACE OF THE LOST HOME (Przestrzen domu straconego)

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The author recollects the successive homes and places where he lived: Paris, Warsaw (50 Nowy Swiat Street), Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. In this manner, he spins a tale about lifelong wanderings and searches for his own home-place, a lost childhood...
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THE FOREST - THE HOME (Las dom)

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The author - a naturalist and ornithologist - poses the question: 'What is a true forest? Whose home is it? ' and replies: 'The forest is one of my homes, a place where I discover everything that I cannot find in city shop windows. The forest is the home of my thoughts about those aromas, flavours, imagery and people'.
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This anthropological interpretation envisages the outstanding documentary film by Bruno Monsaingeon: Piotr Anderszewski. Voyageur intranquille (Medici Arts International 2008) predominantly as a particular 'text of culture', made up of assorted semantic ingredients. The author analyses not so much a portrait of the artist but, primarily, a story about the home. Or more precisely: about different homes, those enrooted in actual space and those suspended in spaces of a more subtle nature. A story about leaving the home and returning to it. About seeking a home or home-oriented nostalgia. On the literal level: about a train carriage changed into a temporary home. Finally: on the last level of this film: a story about a home created out of sounds, fleeting music constructions, erecting an ethereal albeit real space of a home. The interpreted film is also a story about dwelling, connected with empirical topography, which it is possible to measure by means of geographical parameters; it is also a film about the sort of residence that Martin Heidegger described while commenting on the famous refrain from Hoelderlin: 'Man dwells poetically on this earth'.
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This statement is composed of three parts, with the first introducing the conceit of the relational space that appears between traditional opposites, such as: private space - public space. In relational space the home remains a real place, but its location becomes mobile. Between enrootment and mobility there comes into being a thick network of connections, transitory and hybrid forms. In the second part the Aristotelian conception of the 'good life' is interpreted as an element of the realisation of the modern promesse de bonheur, assuming the form of assorted cultures of dwelling. The last part discusses three vectors of relational space in which we may place - in different forms - modern cultures of residence. Their foundations are composed of: 1. The philosophy of enrootment, 2. The philosophy of the language, 3. The philosophy of activity. Each also possesses its negative version, in which the prime categories are re-deciphered, re-interpreted, deconstructed and, finally, rejected.
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The thesis of this article focuses on the ritual function of the home. The point of departure are the findings made by researchers studying the functions of the home, primarily Danuta and Zbigniew Benedyktowicz, who indicate the overwhelming mythical role played by the home (the home-centre, the home-dream, the home-cosmos or even the home-chaos), its magical-ritual role (the zakladziny practices, the site of carrying out the rites of transition and fertility, the archetypical foundation of processes of individuation, the holy corner conceived as a prolongation of liturgical rituals) or social role (the place of the formation of basic competences for living in a group, interaction with the outer world, the storehouse of clan tradition). The above-listed functions are confirmed by suitably formalised practice that, however, constitutes only a small part of symbolic interactions, in which the residents remain with their homes. An interpretation category applied to indicate un-formalised interactions is the concept of rituality, derived from la vie sérieuse expounded by Durkheim and le mythique formulated by Barthes. Thus understood rituality is a variety of ritual behaviour - scattered, unconscious, stream-like - that acts as an intermediary between our relations with the outer world; at the same time, it serves the shaping of personal and group identities. This is the case of communication (self-communication - Lotman), whose partners (intermediaries) are also material objects, including the home. Due to its indistinct nature one should speak about this instance of rituality/communication first and foremost in the categories of causality, the individual emotional/cognitive act. The symbolic of the home and all sorts of artefacts that make it up obtains in this manner an intimate form, and the home itself assumes the form of an indexical cipher applied by the person (persons) living in it. This is a home inscribed into individual (collective) personality. A reverse process also takes place: personalities are moulded by the symbolic baggage of the home. In this interpretation, we may ascribe to it the role of the generalised other (Mead).
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MY HOME (Mój dom)

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Tomasz Rodowicz, a former member of the Centre for Theatre Practices 'Gardzienice' and today the chairman of the' Chorea' theatrical association, speaks about his experiences of the home. The presented reflections concern primarily the expedition made in 1982 to Lapland together with the Gardzienice company, with some of the participants getting lost in the course of a foot trip across the vast empty spaces of the local tundra. The reader learns about a miraculously discovered hone - the small hut of a local reindeer farmer, the connected feeling of safety, and the fall of the Romantic myth of an artist compelled to struggle for survival. The author declares that all those experiences had to a great extent moulded his world outlook and the trends of his subsequent artistic quests.
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This letter, written by Antoni Rzasa in 1964 upon his return to Poland after a scholarship stay in Italy, is addressed to Stanislaw Morawski, one of the first persons whose acquaintance Rzasa made during his Italian journey; it was Morawski who met the artist at the airport, took him to an hotel and was the first to show the Eternal City. Antoni Rzasa mentioned an interval in sculpting and 'renting a small house'...
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THE ITALIAN NOTEBOOK (Notatnik wloski)

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The Italian notebook is a small address book with a rather sombre brown cover. The first pages are full of addresses of persons, the names of Italian institutions, vocabulary, useful expressions and hurriedly noted down sites, both those already seen and those to be toured, which Antoni Rzasa recorded during his journey across Italy in the winter of 1962. The following pages contain detailed descriptions and observations concerning people, art and the landscape.
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UNNAMED (Nienazwane)

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A reflection about a certain modern building that was supposed to be erected in the 1970s on the Mogilskie Rondo in Cracow. The sole outcome was a 70-meter high steel skeleton, which for years blended with the landscape of the city in the manner of the Eiffel tower. Today, it remains the tallest pillar used for displaying advertisements in Europe.
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'RETURNS TO THE PAST' ('Powroty ku przyszlosci')

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A record of a speech given by a painter and lecturer at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts during the conference: 'The Home - the Path of Being' (Czestochowa 2010), on the relations between the word (the process of naming a thing) and the image in contemporary art.
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An examination of identity in contemporary anthropological theories. Analysing the example of temple homes in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé cult, the author considers the continuity and essential qualities of tradition in contemporary cultural reality, subject to changes.
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The purpose of this text is to depict the sort of mental hospital that emerges from widely understood medical literature - reports, scientific articles, textbooks intended for nurses and psychiatrists as well as special-occasion material. The application of an anthropological interpretation - by referring to the symbolic of the home, mental illnesses, the problem of liminality and otherness, as well as rules organising scientific cognition and treatment, including the mechanism of control, discipline and punishment - makes it possible to treat the 'insane asylum'' as a paradoxical and ambivalent space. The principle of ambivalence may be observed by considering the terrain of the hospital in different interpretations, as an example of a situation of an encounter of the intellect and mindlessness, an asylum and a prison, a refuge and a place of exile. It reflects not only the culturally determined ambiguity of madness, but also the specificity and 'inner rent' of the psychiatric discourse, in which the biological and humanistic perspective constantly confront each other; this, in turn, can affect the way of conceptualising mental disturbances, the perception of the sick and subsequent therapy.
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The text broaches the topic of the home in the oeuvre of Witold Gombrowicz not in its spatial aspect - as a microcosmos whose order corresponds to that of the world, while consecutive spaces possess symbolic properties and a hierarchic value - but the temporal aspect, in order show that the family home, the childhood home, is an impossible place, and that returning to it is doomed to fail. The author compares Gombrowicz's drama Slub (The Wedding) and autobiographical Dziennik (Diary) - both treated as literary texts; everything that we can learn from them about Gombrowicz pertains to the literary figure of 'WItold Gombrowicz'. The instrument that is to assist our analysis is the Freudian category of das unheimliche, endowing identity and a specific structure to the return home and, simultaneously, the return to oneself. The 'uncanny' is both alien, menacing and familiar, a return to that which is closest and disturbs the certitude of the subject's power. An analogous structure is indicated in the texts by Gombrowicz: fragrances recognizable from Maloszyce and returning during a yearly sojourn in Germany indicate death. In the world of Gombrowicz, which, as M. P. Markowski recalled recently, begins with a 'double association', birth and youth must be paired with death, present, however, not at the end but from the beginning, and not according to the principle of Gombrowicz-style oppositions but the Freudian heimlich-unheimlich, contained in a single word.
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LETTERS TO A BROTHER (Listy do brata)

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The archive of the correspondence of Antoni and Józef Rzasa totals some 600 letters - the majority is also available in an electronic version (1.5 million characters on paper recorded for almost 25 years). The letters take up two small metal boxes full of already yellowed envelopes. The examples presented below are a modest selection made from the viewpoint of the recollections and consequences of a trip to Italy.
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The house can be considered as a metaphor of life. It is a place where human life begins and ends. It is also the proper place for preparing food and a place to eat a meal. This paper, based on ethnological data from the North of Togo, presents African house as a sacred space, separated from the outside world by the compound wall and is sanctified through the regular offering of sacrifices being done inside. The comparative description of the house building in the different ethnic groups shows multiple similarities. The only difference concerns the presence or absence of vestibule and the position of granary inside or outside courtyard. The African household forms members of family living in the compound. It is a group of kin bound through the common goal, the surviving. The group of kinship includes also the defunct who support and protect living members of family. The sacrifices offered in the honor of ancestors ensure material prosperity and procreation capacity of women. The house is also a place of ritual enacting, especially in case of rites of passage and rites of crisis. The African house is a proper place for maintaining the life - physically, psychologically, socially and spiritually.
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THE END OF THE SONG (Koniec piesni)

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The author of the text discusses the experience that inspired him to make the film Koniec piesni (The End of the Song). Recalling his childhood and quests, he mentions a fascination with the culture of the eastern borderlands and their cultural diversity. Subsequent theatrical searches carried out together with the 'Gardzienice' theatre company demonstrated the need for a longer expedition, conducted with a small group of people and rendering possible in-depth cultural barter. The three-months long excursion to the Belorussian borderland produced an impressive collection of folk music performed by the local inhabitants. The End of the Song is a record of a nostalgic trip, in whose course the author toured the same places 27 years later. Wandering from home to home, he played archival recordings to the families of long deceased singers. Music becomes a carrier of a tradition that has passed away together with people. This voice from the past evokes the most human emotions and sets free assorted recollections and nostalgia. At the same time, it urges to pose numerous questions about contemporaneity and tradition.
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The sketch pertains to the letters of Antoni Rzasa, a Polish sculptor, and his brother, Józef, whose vast correspondence lasted between the mid-1950s and Antony's death at the beginning of 1980. Antoni Rzasa appears to have been an 'extremely human' person - the letters addressed to his sibling do not conceal anything. Hence, they often mention painful and difficult issues, at times probably much too frequently and intensely. The second part of the sketch deals with the journey made by Antoni Rzasa to Italy in the winter of 1962, a key experience in his artistic development. All these factors constitute testimony of the artist's activity; despite the fact that he applied artistic means interpreted as purely folk, Rzasa dealt with all that is universal, regardless of the cultural competences of his recipients. The reason could lie in the fact that the artist strove towards recounting that which is the ultimate truth: he told about man.
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An attempt at paraphrasing the theory of art expounded by Hans Georg Gadamer for the needs of an analysis of the category of the home. While discussing the book The Topicality of Beauty, in which the philosopher summarised his views about art and creativity, the author of the article wishes to show the connections between experiencing a work of art and a home.
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The topic of this article are three oil canvases by Jacek Waltos featuring the motif of the home: Great Improvisation - Small Stabilisation (1975), Awaiting, Ecstasy, Resignation (1977) and Threefold Pieta and the Fourth (1980). As a member of the 'Wprost' group the artist declared the realisation of painting involved in social issues, commenting on contemporary reality with the assistance of figurative depictions endowed with unambiguous contents. The works by Waltos are, against the backdrop of the 'Wprost' oeuvre, distinguished by their distance towards speaking unambiguously and a direct portrayal of the world. Their characteristic features include a sui generis lyrical approach and a sublimation of the form and contents. The originality of these depictions consists of a presentation of interpersonal relations transpiring in the scenery of the home. Each of the discussed canvases displays a lamp with a tin shade; by possessing a concealed meaning it constitutes a symbol of the space of the Sacrum. The lamp and the portrayed figures share different relations. In Great Improvisation - Small Stabilisation the soaring male figure consistently realises his wish to come closer to the lamp, despite the fact that the bulb is not shining. Awaiting, Ecstasy, Resignation features a contrary situation, since it is the rendered figure of a person, or more precisely, a woman sitting in an armchair, which assumes a passive attitude, while the glowing lamp, hanging from the ceiling, is located in the direct proximity of the sitter. Both motifs are focused in Threefold Pieta and the Fourth, in which kneeling figures assume an active stance and the lamp, once against suspended from the ceiling, draws them forth from the semi-shade. This, in turn, suggests a reference to so-called vertical relations, which connect the figures with empirically inaccessible space that corresponds to the idea of the home conceived as axis mundi and identified with a site that renders possible a link with God.
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