Ścieżka dźwiękowa wygnania. Archiwa afektywne Karoliny Grzywnowicz
Soundtrack of Exile. The Affective Archives of Karolina Grzywnowicz

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses an on-going project: Every song knows its home (2018–) by the Polish artist Karolina Grzywnowicz. The aim of the project is to collect songs sung by refugees during their wandering. The author of the articles argues that there exists a deep convergence between the artistic form of the archive, the medium of music, and the condition of the exile. In the face of the lost geopolitical and material context, songs that merge the affective and cognitive aspect of human attitude towards surrounding reality are a substitute of a home and preserve endangered identity. The aporic nature of an archive refers to the cultivation of memory as much as to the violence of forgetting. Affect and archive meet exactly in relation to issues connected with human rights, migration, and the incorporation of memory, and play a substantial role in the processes of dealing with trauma, oppression, and exclusion. With her artistic archive of songs Grzywnowicz not only includes them in the range of culture by broadening the horizon of cultural memory, but also advocates epistemic justice creating sonic space for the universal community of listeners – moral witnesses.

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