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Accepted Paper:
Materiality of community arts events in Poland and the creation of the unexpected
Weronika Plinska
(Institute of Art and Design, University of the National Education Commission in Cracow)
Paper short abstract:
Soon after the Polish political transformation a group of artists from the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw invited their British counterparts to work together on a community arts project. The project was conducted in 1990-93 and I investigated the memory of the event.
Paper long abstract:
Soon after the Polish political transformation, at the very beginning of the 1990s, a group of artists from the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, spent every summer in the countryside. One summer they invited their British counterparts to the summer residence and decided to work together on a community arts/cultural animation project - the first one ever undertaken by both groups in conjunction.
In 2010 I came to the village Pierog, where the project was conducted in 1990-93, to investigate the memory of the artistic event.
In my paper I would like to explore the role of materiality in managing the community arts event. I would like to examine the ways in which material objects mediate social agencies of differently situated subjects in a social field. I would like to explore the potential of materiality in creating unexpected relationships between humans but also between human and non-human agents.