selected articles
TEMPORARY ZONES CULTURES
Analyzing the phenomenon of squats from the perspective of culture studies, one should make clear division between what constitutes unwritten rules and customs of a squat and cultural or social activities undertaken by most of squat activists. It is impossible to enclose the nature of the phenomenon in one rule or theory of everyday functioning of such communities. These are more cultures then one culture. And yet, what joins all communities living in the buildings “stolen from the city”, is a common model of social practice, based on anarchist rules of independence from state taxes, separation from the middleclass lifestyle, rejection of the idea of private property and a more or less established rule of common work.
press review
READING MYŚLIWSKI, QUOTING MYŚLIWSKI
It would be difficult not to notice the expansion of an interview that has been taking place during the recent years in the (not only) Polish press. In every daily newspaper, opinion weekly magazine, economic, sailing, trekking and catholic papers there are a few interviews, short conversations, editorial debates and discussions, “guest interview”, “three questions to” etc. In the interview for “Polityka” Myśliwski talks about his writing, about poring over a blank page, about whole years without a single word written, about a “pencil method”: “Maybe it is a kind of trauma, but a sight of a crossed out sentence, or even a word, affects me in a bad way, as if depriving me of imagination needed to create another sentence. So, I often say that I write more with an eraser than a pencil”. The conversation in “Tygodnik Powszechny” is almost wholly dedicated to the latest book of Myśliwski.
A HIDDEN FESTIVAL STRATEGY
A holiday double issue of “Kino” magazine (7-8/2006) as usual visits all befriended summer film festivals in Poland: chronologically, it was worth to start with Łagowo where the Koterskis, a father and son, strolled, then move to Toruń (for a retrospective of Stanisław Różewicz, the master) and during the second half of July pop off to Wrocław (apart from films similar in style to Roman Gutek’s team, recollection of a classic Stanisław Lenartowicz who is rarely present in film discussions), to Ińsk (for a film biography seminar) and to Zwierzyniec (expressive cinema of Grzegorz Królikiewicz).