The aim of the article is to outline the basic critical possibilities that visual and linguistic art can have in the world of anthropocene. Referring to, among other things examples of the so-called slick images by Susan Schuppli and poems by Polish poet Kacper Bartczak I look at images in digital and poetic media. I am interested in the differences between an artistic activity in which inhuman actors play an important role and one in which the main initiator is still a human being, trying to place human language and human artifacts in the network of biological-technological transformations.
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Celem artykułu jest zarysowanie podstawowych możliwości krytycznych, jakimi może dysponować sztuka wizualna oraz językowa w świecie antropocenu. Odwołując się do m.in. przykładów tzw. śliskich obrazów Susan Schuppli oraz wierszy polskiego poety Kacpra Bartczaka przyglądam się obrazowaniu w mediach wizualno-cyfrowych oraz piśmienno-poetyckich. Interesują mnie różnice między artystycznością, w której istotną rolę odgrywają nieludzcy aktorzy oraz artystycznością, w której nadal głównym inicjatorem działań jest człowiek, usiłujący umieścić ludzkie artefakty w sieci przekształceń biologiczno-technologicznych.
In the article “Inne życie wiersza – Darek Foks” focuses on the description of a postmodern poem as an object saturated with life, reified and anthropomorphized. The phenomenon of the recurrent reification, the inclusion in the context of cultural processes aimed at dematerialization of medium is shown on the example of the poetry by Darek Foks. What must be emphasised is the principle of a totemic thinking determining the process of reification in the poetry of this author.
The aim of the article is to rethink the way in which images convince us to adopt the perspective of another, which is the image itself. Starting from W.J.T. Mitchell’s theory on the desire and subjectivity of images, and Gottfried Boehm’s theory of the imagery, I look at a photographic and narrative album of Gerhard Richter and Alexander Kluge. This turns to itself for self-presentative and self-referential purposes. However, they do not aim to explore the essence of their medium, but “drag” the viewer into or out of the performance. I analyse situations in which we are forced to transfer our gaze to the materiality and objectivity of a picture, to its own existence. Such situations reinforce the effect of compassion, going far beyond literal meanings and content, which can be managed discursively.
The paper is a reflection about ways in which notions related to valuation function in literary criticism, focusing on processes of constructing, consolidating, and exchanging notions in socio-cultural circulation. Based on essays by, among others, Kacper Bartczak and Natalia Malek, who have different opinions about Louise Glück’s poetry, such notions as universality, honesty, female writing are considered.
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Celem artykułu Jak wytwarza się pojęcia wartościujące? Na przykładzie sporu o poezję Louise Glück jest refleksja nad sposobami funkcjonowania pojęć związanych z wartościowaniem w krytyce literackiej. Przedmiotem zainteresowania są procesy konstruowania, utrwalania oraz wymiany pojęć w społeczno-kulturowych obiegach. Na podstawie artykułów między innymi Kacpra Bartczaka oraz Natalii Malek, różnie oceniających wartość wierszy amerykańskiej noblistki, autorka tekstu bierze pod uwagę takie pojęcia, jak uniwersalność, szczerość, pisanie kobiece.
Great Benefits. the Common Issues Shared by Poetry, Art Criticism and Aesthetics The article constitutes and attempt to outline such a conception of art criticism which would take into consideration post-modern transformations concerning the functioning of the arts in various societies. The category of criticism is understood by me in a broad sense which enables one to accept utopian thinking and an evaluating attitude. In my research I deal with the issue of defining what is art/poetry in the context of modernday knowledge about the interpretative character of critical activities; I put forward a hypothesis that at the present moment, arguments and contentions between researchers, critics and commentators concern the very possibility of interpretation. I also opt out for perceiving positive consequences of critical work.
The text is devoted to the problem of materiality in the perspective of transmedial artistic practices. The object of special interest is the principle of rapprochement between the medium and non-artistic matter, shown on examples of art that intentionally strengthen its relationship with various materials (so-called matter painting), and on the example of art that to a greater extent is subjected to the processes of dematerialization (hyperrealism, conceptualism). In the works of such painters as Antoni Tàpies, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana turning to non-literary materials leads to an interesting tension / rapprochement between the materials and the medium. It brings a retreat from the idealistic aesthetics and ahistorically treated matter, and opens up to non-antropocentrically captured objects. In the case of Jeff Wall’s post-conceptual photography, the principle of closeness draws attention to the ability of photography to annex various media. Transmediality, as it manifests itself in both Wall’s paintings of matter and his photographs, may be called, after Jacques Rancière, incommensurability.
W artykule zostały przedstawione możliwości zaistnienia nowomaterialistycznej estetyki wiersza. Każdy z analizowanych przykładów – poezja aktywna Ewy Partum, toy-art Adama Kaczanowskiego i słowno-fotograficzne archiwum Andrzeja Tobisa – ujawnia inne aspekty tej estetyki. Najogólniej jednak, nowomaterialistyczna estetyka powiązana została tu z transmedialnym horyzontem sztuki oraz z przeobrażeniami myślenia materialistycznego dokonanymi pod wpływem nieantropocentrycznej wyobraźni.
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The article discusses the possibilities of the emergence of a neo-materialistic aesthetics of the poem. Each of the analyzed examples-Ewa Partum’s active poetry, Adam Kaczanowski’s toy-art and Andrzej Tobis’s photographic archive-reveals different aspects of this aesthetics. The case of Partum shows that the material concreteness of poetry-today also associated with virtuality- requires other ways of perceiving / commenting / documenting the “poems” happening between the media. Active poetry consists in drawing the text (which eventually turns out to be a jigsaw made of letters) out of the formula of the finished object and making the medium of writing/language the material from which the object of artistic attention is “made”. I call Tobis’s project neo-materialistic, since it shows how we move from the human hybrid level we move to normalization and stabilization (and vice versa). Tobis seems to reach the moment when this normalization is actually happening and, at the same time, he shows levels of transformations, mutations and deviations. Kaczanowski “invents” for his poetry a medium different from the traditional record and the traditional form of the book. This principle of “invention” turns out to be very important, because it decides whether some materializations are poetic objects or not, without specifying any initial aesthetic, political and ideological criteria. In the most general terms this new-materialist aesthetics has been linked here with the transmedia horizon of art and the transformations of materialistic thinking made under the influence of the non-anthropocentric imagination.
The article deals with problems of interpretation raised by texts based on repetitions or interceptions. After presenting the historical status of artistic objects based on interceptions, the article focuses on the poetry of Marta Podgórnik, Kira Pietrek and Kamila Janiak. Using examples from these poets’ poems, it examines problems relating to the political meaning of interceptions, differences between readings concentrating on formal features of a text and those that consider the aesthetic-ideological contexts of texts’ entanglements. I also consider how evaluation is dependent on the model of interpretation used.
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Artykuł dotyczy problemów interpretacyjnych, jakie wywołują teksty oparte na powtórzeniach-przechwyceniach. Po prezentacji historycznego statusu obiektów artystycznych opartych na przechwyceniach, autorka koncentruje się na poezji Marty Podgórnik, Kiry Pietrek i Kamili Janiak. Na przykładzie wierszy tych poetek rozpatruje zagadnienia dotyczące politycznego znaczenia przechwyceń, różnic między lekturą skoncentrowaną na formalnych cechach tekstu a lekturą rozważającą konteksty estetyczno-ideologicznych uwikłań tekstów. Przygląda się także uzależnieniu wartościowania od przyjętego modelu interpretacji.
WHEN POETRY? THE POSSIBILITY OF POETRY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD OF MESSAGING The article attempts to answer the question asked by Nelson Goodman, about the moment when something becomes poetry/art. This article describes the change of communication situation that has taken place in the Polish culture after 2000. It draws attention to the aesthetic potential of poetry by such authors as Justyna Bargielska, Szczepan Kopyt, and Krzysztof Siwczyk.