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- Title
Ramy (hybrydowej) pamięci: Dla Festiwalu Between/ Pomiędzy - Kosmopolis 2020 - od "Kontekstów".
- Authors
Benedyktowicz, Zbigniew
- Abstract
This text was prepared for the XI “Between/PomiÄ™dzy†Festival of Literature and Theatre held in GdaÅ„sk and Sopot, which this year, owing to the pandemic, is available online as Kosmopolis 2020. A response to an invitation to participate in the Between/PomiÄ™dzy May event in a virtual form. A request to select seven “Konteksty†texts dealing with the current difficult period, which could also make it possible to cast some sort of light; the author, however, finds it difficult to assess whether they could assist in finding an answer to the question formulated outright by the organisers: “What is the nature of the experience we are going through?â€. At this point, he returns to the original notion of the planned meeting (prior to the pandemic): Kosmopolis (no date) so as to be able to construe a response to the present and the bewildering process of experiencing the year 2020: “Kosmopolis is a certain microcosmos of the world enclosed within a town or a nation, a certain communityâ€. It is a creative “oxymoron that grows and develops thanks to diversity. Kosmopolis is a multi-strata location that can be appreciated due its divergent beauty present not only in physical and psychic space, but also in time. Kosmopolis also embodies such contrasts as tradition and innovation, growth and stagnation, history and fiction, local and global perspectivesâ€. In order to justify this particular answer the author returns also to the motif of the islands and the ritual, magical Kula institution described by BronisÅ‚aw Malinowski. In a conversation about the “Konteksty†Island held at last year’s festival he attempted to speak as openly as possible about its secret. Our simple secret. In contrast to the onerous, thankless, and difficult work performed by an anthropologist, especially when he undertakes fieldwork, the experience of an editor of such a niche “island†periodical as “Konteksty†is something totally different. In a word: we receive from the authors gifts in the shape of brilliant ideas and excellent texts, and are presented with shells or armbands that we shift from one issue to another (since often there is not enough space in a single issue or else the texts are at odds. Somehow we gather all of them and achieve that the diverse experiences of those niche milieus – such Islands as the Between/PomiÄ™dzy Festival, the anthropological conference held in Zakopane, or other similar phenomena - could meet on our pages, on our Island. To put it in simple terms - this is the source of our periodical’s existence: we thrive precisely thanks to gifts received from the Authors and their proposals. Just like Kula in the midst of all those varied small isles we too try to sustain this exchange and bond within the dimension of a more extensive archipelago. “I am unable - the author wrote - to choose and indicate seven individual texts. It would be much easier to choose seven issues by relying on the reader to discover, select, and find those he regards as most valuableâ€. (This text, presented here in a paper version – a specific hybrid outcome of telecommuting and online work - is available also on web pages. Links to the selected and above-mentioned texts (free access) on: http://www. kosmopolis-between.pl/2020/pl/between-esearch/07/ publishers/books-konteksty. And: www.konteksty.pl ).
- Publication
Kontesksty: Polska Sztuka ludowa, 2020, Vol 74, Issue 1/2, p387
- ISSN
1230-6142
- Publication type
Article