SZTUKA ZAANGAŻOWANA ARTURA ŻMIJEWSKIEGO
‘INVOLVED ART’ BY ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI

Summary/Abstract: Tryka describes a relationship between Artur Żmijewski’s artistic practiceand his theoretical deliberations on involved art. Żmijewski’s conceptionof art, expressed in a manifesto Applied Social Arts, is discussed in thecontext of aesthetical conception of art. Tryka starts with the descriptionof his artistic manifesto entitled ‘Applied social arts’, which is one ofmost influential voice in the debate on the role of involved art in contemporaryculture in Poland. Theoretical questions from the manifesto connectedwith the metaphor of art as algorithm, the alienation of art andpossibilities of its overcoming fill the first paragraphs of the paper. In thesecond part, Tryka described two projects by Żmijewski entiltled ‘Democracies’ and sculptural plain-air entitled ‘Memories of Celulose’. She compared them with Żmijewski’s ideas and interpreted them in philosophical context. Żmijewski believed that the value of art cannot be measured in the context of aesthetics but only in the context of its ability to influence social andpolitical events. He considered art as social tool which could be used to studying and forming social relations. Moreover, artists should contribute to people’s involvement in artistic activities, and in forming people’s world views. They should be able to develop and explore creative potential of people who aren’t yet interested in art and they should be able to properly evaluate cooperation between people.

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