O milczeniu z Jackiem Wesołowskim rozmawia Tomasz Zalejski-Smoleń
Tomasz Zalejski-Smoleń talks to Jacek Wesołowski about silence

Summary/Abstract: Silence and related to it phenomena such as calm, concealment, meaningful pause, inexpressiveness are worth discussing. More and more attention has been paid to these questions, especially in the recent years. The issues touched upon in the conversation with Jacek Wesołowski, an artist, art theorist, specific poetry expert, author of texts dedicated to interdisciplinary questions in literature and art as well as to matters of the twentieth-century avant-garde, have become a good pretext to ponder about silence as a culture category. During their informal talk the authors try to answer the question: what is silence from the perspective of communication? They also make an attempt to state the possibilities of interpretation of this phenomenon in the context of philosophy, literature and art.Since 1972 Wesołowski has published academic texts. Since 1983 he has been releasing his own artistic concept entitled Dzien-Nik that covers wide spectrum of his creative activity: painting, graphic art, objects, installations, actions, as well as theoretic and literary texts. Both his passions, academic and artistic, were highlighted in the following conversation. In its first part Wesołowski talks about silence from the perspective of linguistics, theory of literature, research on visual poetry, whereas in the second part he explains in what way silence is present in his own creation.

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