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Simon Pietrasiewicz
last week ended in Lublin Transeuropa festival, an event which seeks the goal of talking about tolerance, exclusion, social issues and "tame" otherness. Do you reached your goal?
From the outset, the festival was accompanied by an aura of scandal, the media vied with each other in the reports about difficulties in implementing a form of denial of a print job "City of Love" by giving features of this affair, and exacerbating the tension. Before the work was shown publicly Lublin celebrities began to find her, the city spread rumors about the allegedly going to the dog or dragon of Marshal Pilsudski. It was not hard to guess what will be the result of presentations and social reaction. Media got what they wanted or a cheap sensation, and readers widely read information about Internet users to comment on and finally something is happening! With horror and helplessness of watching this festival reports from the front of the scandal, as is the art of insulting people in Lublin, spits of flowing blood, or disgraces the town hall that partly covered the Transeuropy. After all, it's time to reflect and draw conclusions. I regret that most journalists and spectators, "Cities of Love" saw only a superficial, visual side of the image, which often acts in a men's licentious body composition. I say that very bold and sometimes even vulgar, but without reflection and context remain the only "folly" and "Sodom and Gomorrah." The conclusion is simple, the recipient of the bandwidth it odarli interpretative clues, not looked through the prism of author's earlier activities, which shows that the work firmly in the same vein for several years and this job was not at all extravagance for a scandal or excuse for existence. Perceptive observer at a meeting with the author have noticed the wink to the audience, dresowy costume, or juicy vocabulary which deliberately destroyed the previews all conventions, meetings, official and snobbish. Overview of the elements of classical architecture built in Lublin even ennobles it and not embarrass the city, I heard that the misconception is to rework the castle donżonu in phallic shapes, actually may give This is controversial, but is not receiving the right of the artist's imagination and associations, each with their own hidden desires, in this case they are iconified in this way. All pathfinders sensationalism and guardians of public morality, I refer to the image of Hieronymus Bosch "Garden of Earthly Delights," which presents a much more daring scene of the marriage of the sacred from the profane peeling for sodomy, the school can be seen in the fine arts activities or cultural knowledge. I recall that it was the Middle Ages and the work did not induce even when so many emotions ...
pity that perceptive critics did not see Transeuropie presented the beauty of art, only selective portions of a color drama, which is convenient in okopywaniu on their ideological positions. Passed unnoticed meetings with representatives of ethnic minorities living in Lublin, share performance in the urban space. What was important for us to be treated by the spectators selectively and with restraint. Festival left us aware that we have enormous work to do in the future, proved that the implementation of several events in a given time under a single brand is a pretext for the existence of art courageous and difficult but it was her constant presence in the social discourse can cause real change in the perception of problems of which it speaks. Photo by M.
Ryczkowska
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