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Author is a painter. Together with the members of the Romen Theatre in Moscow he carries out a project of theatrical reconstructions of the traditional scenes and situations of the gypsy camp life (dances among others). The acts are prepared according to detailed historical studies. They are subsequently photographed and filmed to form an archival collection to be used by researchers in the future.
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The subject matter of this introduction to the thematic part of the current issue of “Studia Romologica” is the relation between Roma art and Roma politics, and its main assumption is a conviction that art always has a political dimension while politics is always present in the art. This relation is particularly visible in the field in which agency and identity of social groups are produced, especially of minorities that are not in a position to control the political and aesthetic means of identity expression. Moreover, in the case of Roma those means have been historically involved in discrimination against and stereotypical representation of Roma. In this context, contemporary Roma political and artistic movement can be perceived as an indication of Roma mobility understood as an attempt to go beyond the space designated for Roma by majority and to encounter that majority on its own ground. This attempt subverts the right of the majority to control the discourse in which Roma are represented. Does Roma art exist? What is its political character? Can art be an efficient tool in the struggle for political agency? These questions, among many others, form the core of reflection of the authors who contributed to this issue.
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The paper entitled La Boheme to post-Roma art and back. Mapping of Czarna Gora makes an attempt to define and display Roma contemporary art today. In its first part the history of bohemianism seen as a cultural background for European artistic modernism has been shown. Popular views and unjustified beliefs concerning 19th-century Roma communities were crucial and basic for the beginning of the bohemian, early-modern art and life. The moment of break off between bohemian artists and Roma art is also discusses. Although, the 19th-century Roma communities were a decisive impulse for the emergence of modernist avant-garde movements, their own artistic production was classified as a kind of unprofessional, naïve, folk art and as such attracted ethnographers’ and ethnologists’ interest rather than art historians’ or critiques’ fascination. This state of affairs was accurate until the early 21st century when the first exhibitions of Roma contemporary art came out. According to the author the most important feature of Roma contemporary art is its transnational character. In the second part of the paper two strategies of practicing and introducing Roma contemporary art have been presented: the first one characterized by a very strong transnational but ethnic component and the second one described here as the post-Roma approach. The latter abandons an attempt to define its own ethnicity and, instead, focuses on hybrid, transversal, and precarious beings. Czarna Gora (Rom. Kali Berga, Eng. Black Mountain), a Polish-Roma village where plein-air workshops and artistic residencies for both Roma and not-Roma artists take place is presented as this kind of post-Roma strategy.
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The history of the Memory of the Roma Genocide Memorial erected in the forest in the village of Borzecin (Malopolska Region). The piece outlines the idea of the monument’s author – a concept that evolves as the monument is affected by the passage of time and events occurring in it’s surrounding. The history of the Memory of the Roma Genocide Memorial erected in the forest in the village of Borzecin (Malopolska Region). The piece outlines the idea of the monument’s author – a concept that evolves as the monument is affected by the passage of time and events occurring in it’s surrounding.
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The article deals with the issue Romani people settled in the Kingdom of Poland based on the first census that was conducted in the Russian empire in 1897. Its analysis allowed to determine the number of settled Romani groups (1061 people),which represented the rural settlement. As far as the population was concerned, the largest settlements were created in the two adjacent governorates – Lublin Governorate and Warsaw Governorate. This group, barely reaching one thousand people, was mostly concentrated on the East bank of the Vistula River. This river, as it turn out, a demarcation line for the Romani colonists, with some exceptions. The further to the West, the numbers of the settlers were lower, and the other way around – the further to the East, the higher the number of the settled Romani people. It is difficult to define occupational, social and religious structure due to lack of relevant data and primarily its fragmentation.
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Roma living in Lithuania belong to three different groups: Lithuanian Roma (litovska Roma) Latvian Roma, (lotfitka Roma) and Kotlari (kotliarai). Not fully explained is the affiliation of the Roma who live on the border with Kaliningrad calling themselves as Fluks (Fliuki). The first Roma arrived to the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania probably from Poland. Until the last partition of Poland mild policy towards this minority clearly stood out against the background of contemporary Europe. In the then Lithuania evolved even the institution of “Gypsy superior”, whose representative, in contrast to the “gypsy king”, came from the Roma community. The Partitions ended a period of relative freedom, and the subsequent historical events more and more tragically experienced Lithuanian Roma. As a result of World War II was killed about 1/3 of the entire Roma population living in areas of Lithuania. Soviet forced settlement, as well as the experience of occupation, greatly weakened the Roma community – has broken the continuity of the tradition passed, it has been weakened adherence to internal orders and hierarchies. At the moment, Lithuanian Roma are among the worst-educated, most marginalized, the least integrated and one of the most criminalized social group in Lithuania.
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The first part of this article presents the history and the contemporary life of the Domari population living in Jerusalem (Israel). It describes professions popular among gypsies, their social status, attitudes towards the Arabian majority, a language, traditions and customs. The second part of this article was created based on the interview conducted with the Head of the Domari Centre – Amoun Sleem. It focuses on presenting initiatives taken to the benefit of this population by means of organizing workshops and courses. This part also discusses the contemporary problems of the Domari people, such as: the lack of recognition as an ethnic minority, social exclusion, language extinction, inclusion by the Arabian majority. The objective of this article is to illustrate the evolution process in the Domari population in Israel, its chances for development and a better life.
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During discussions about diversity of people and cultures of the American Continent, the existence of Romani people is systematically forgotten. It could be proved by a declaration signed by Romani representatives during The Forum of the Americas for Diversity and Plurality in Quito 2001 which reflects a lack of profound research upon Roma minorities in the New World, and Latin America in particular. The Roma community in the Americas, estimating a population of over 4 million people, is still immersed in invisibility. The work is focused on migrations of Roma people to Latin America and North America. It presents three important periods of European history (colonization of New World, mass migration of Europeans in the mid 19th and 20th centuries, Soviet period and the after math) which had a crucial influence on Roma and their journey through the Atlantic.
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The author presents the evolution of the attitude towards the art of Roma artists, who in the past were often perceived as representatives of a folk art, and who are now professional artists whose work often does not have any connection with the ethnicity of their authors. The author critically analyses the concept of authenticity in art by pointing out the presence of diverse aesthetic traditions in the works of Roma artists and concludes that the ethnicity of an artist is unimportant and the contemporary generation of Roma artists has escaped the stigma of an ethnic art.
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The aim of this article is to show gypsy Oksana – the character created by Maria Sadowska (1835?–1892; the pen name – Zbigniew) in the relationship with the social environment, thus in the literary portraits of daughters and mistresses. Ina forgotten novel Oksana Sadowska raises a problem of stereotypes about Gypsies. Sadowska is the author of humorous sketches, novels of manners, realistic and fantasy novels, which ironically and humorously present the contemporary social roles. The literary voice of Sadowska can thus be seen as an attempt to express the cultural distinctiveness of Gypsies in the literature of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Roma from Romania have been setting their camps in Poland since the early 1990s, so for a quarter of a century now. Yet this phenomenon of inhabitation has not been too often subjected to theoretical or conceptual reflection. This essay focuses on the possible reasons of this exclusion: entrenched stereotypes that obscure the socio-economic background of Roma migrations, as well as on the significant difference between the permanent architecture of houses or housing schemes inhabited by Roma versus the temporary architecture of the camps. An analysis of cultural texts indicates a shared interest in this temporary dwellings on the part of the historical Situationists and contemporary Polish and Roma visual artists; the Dutch architect Constant’s utopia of nomadic cities belongs to the former. Today the architecture of Roma camps can be treated not only as a ‘shadow architecture’ excluded from the public discourse, but also as an inspiration and challenge for present-day thinking about housing design: low-cost, time-effective, in tune with ecological and recycling ideas.
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The Author begins with taking note of the phenomenon of the first Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007) and the preceding exhibition in Budapest: First National Exhibition of Self-taught Roma Artists (1979). These events serve as a background to her essay about the beginning of the Roma artist movement in Poland. The Author writes about Romani Art movement in Poland, initiated in 2007 by Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, which consisted of herself, Bogumila Delimata and Krzysztof Gil, and about the directions taken by the artists in the following years. Author of the article presents one by one artistic activities of Romani Art movement, especially those of Malgorzata Mirga-Tas. It turns out, that the present Roma artist movement in Poland is not only an artistic phenomenon, but a manifestation of the newly born, contextual, modern identity of young Roma elite.
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Looking at the character, significance and the esthetics of the “sacred corner” – a phenomenon of the Polish folk culture, longest present particularly in the Eastern and North-Eastern Poland, the author analyses contemporary decorations made in the Roma houses of the Carpathian Mountains as well as those of the Roma middleclass of various groups. The article aims at opening a discussion about the sources of the „Gypsy style” and invites the question of whether the Roma esthetics is a combination of elements borrowed from the poor strata of the majority group and frozen in the material culture of the Roma, while the majority ceased to employ these elements or rather a new space where new, specifically Roma things are being created.
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Chapels in the Osobowice Cemetery are few in Wroclaw objects connected with national minorities. The Roms appeared in Lower Silesia after the second World War, partly free willingly, partly within the ‘Vistula’ action, though it should bestated that in the area of the Recovered Territories, which were settled by new comers from Poland, they felt good enough. Forms and ideological contents of their chapels-mausolea are related with extremely complex Romany funeral rituals on the one hand and on the other hand they show integration of the Romany circles with culture of the Polish lands. The chapels of Romany families, of the royal Lakatoszes among others, designed by Wroclaw architects, refer to the tradition of Polish Renaissance and resemble to a large extent the chapels of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Some of them, however, to some extent have relations with architecture of Romania. One of the chapel designers also speaks on the Roms interest in European architecture. Deep vestibules with columns allow families of the buried one to meet together during his drom passage to heaven’s door. An original relief of one of the Romany tombstones depicting a car also indicates the symbolic of a passage. The Roms from Wroclaw pay large sums to build chapels for the passed away members of their families, even for those who had died on the other side of the Atlantic, although in many cases the sums are not sufficient to end up the commissions. On economical grounds some of the chapels are raised by the Roms themselves. In this case, however, the effect is far worse, despite their attempts to follow classical architectural motifs.
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Article about genocide memory project by Regional Museum in Tarnow Na bister (rom. ‘Do not forget’), which effect is web site (www.na-bister/muzeum.tarnow.pl) with base of Roma victims commemorated sites: monuments, plaques etc. Project was financed by Ministry of Culture.
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The article is an analyze of the Italian policy towards the Roma and Sinti at national and local levels on the example of the capital – Rome. The policy of spatial isolation of the Roma in the so-called campi nomadi – the camps for groups of migratory policy which was used since 80-ties of 20th century has led to the institutionalization segregation policy. The culmination of the practice of discrimination against the Roma community in Italy has become the program Emergenza Nomadi started in 2008. At the time, which introduced anti-Roma procedures leading to the explicit and systematic human rights violations
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The article discusses the role of art in representing Roma historical memories. Following Chantal Mouffe, the author emphasizes the political character of the relation between memory and its artistic representation. It is argued that commemorative art transforms Roma historical experiences and becomes not only part and expression of Roma collective memory, but also an element of Roma fight for recognition and empowerment. The argument is advanced through a comparative analysis of two memorials of the Roma Holocaust: one that commemorates the Roma murdered in Borzecin near Tarnow, and the Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under the National Socialist Regime. The author claims that both memorials carry similar message that is subsequently analyzed in the broader context of the Roma politics of identity.
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The Author write about cultural project – quasi-exposition with few events about and with Roma, realized in Tarnow in 2014.
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