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Accepted Paper:
"Trust me and I will do good things for you, even if to make you happy, means to leave you to your self" - collaboration between the Polish and the British community artists in the early 1990s
Weronika Plinska
(Institute of Art and Design, University of the National Education Commission in Cracow)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I will focus on the notion of personhood and discuss how it is being crafted through one's participation in a community art project. I will explain what kind of values are transmitted under such circumstances.
Paper long abstract:
Community art is a democratic art. It aims to produce art which is not elite but human rights art (Thomson 1979). Community art aims not as much to transform the materials as to transform social relations. This is the art that works on relations, as it was put by Bourriad, who used the notion of "relational aesthethics" to talk about recent developments in art. It aims to transform the existing hierarchies, such as the hierarchy of taste. It also aims to have a political impact.
In my paper I would like to explore the ways in which community art works mediate agencies of differently situated subjects in a social field. I would like to focus on describing the case of collaboration between the Polish and the British community artists, who used to work together on a community arts project conducted in Poland in the early 1990s; soon after the Polish political transformation.