Maria Jarema i awangardowa historia porażki
Maria Jarema and the Avant-garde Story of Defeat

Summary/Abstract: The author focuses on Maria Jarema’s strategies of “ruining” her workshop and is interested in the tension between complementary tendencies: obsessive craft improvement of the craft and practicing carelessness, shortcomings, as well as transitional and makeshift forms. In doing so she examines Jarema’s status of an individual committing transgressions from the position of helpless resistance. Civic disobedience and affective commitment go hand in hand with strategies of distance, withdrawal, and erratic or limited participation. Obstinate powerlessness does not, however, necessarily mean surrendering the symbolic field, but is a consciously reiterated act aimed at obliterating traces, multiplying the image, and disrupting the status. The author thus presents defeat as a creation method and Jarema’s avant-garde as the art of survival.

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