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Przekraczanie widzenia. O dziełach sztuki doświadczanych w ciemności
Crossing Vision – Experience of Darkness in Contemporary Art

Author(s): Marta Lisok
Subject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: performance; okulocentrism; darkness; art; anthropology; Bałka; Seghal

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to criticism of two pieces of contemporaty art “How it is” MirosławaBałki and “This variation” Tino Seghala. Artists based in their works on experiences of darknessand created place for encounter of participants. On the ground of their installations, I am usingmethodology of antropology of senses to look for new methaphors, related to sound and touch.This senses are connecting with chaos and alterity versus to western civilisation based on dominationof vision. It could be remedy to okulocentric culture, rooted in category of perspective, controland order.

  • Issue Year: XI/2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 61-72
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish