- Author:
Marta Zambrzycka
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Warszawski
- Year of publication:
2015
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
137-146
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/pomi201509
- PDF:
pomi/01/pomi201509.pdf
Suffering body as a spectacle in paintings of Igor Podolchak and Vasily Cagolov.
The topic of this article is a way of presenting suffering in paintings of Vasily Cagolov and Igor Podolchak - Ukrainian contemporary artists. In the paintings of Cagolov suffering and causing pain are shown in the convention of popular culture (crime story film style). In art of Podolchak human body is represented as an object of experiments. Both painters try to analyze the place and role of images of suffering and Violence in the contemporary culture.
- Author:
Emilia Kramkowska
- E-mail:
emilka.kramkowska@wp.pl
- Institution:
University of Białystok
- Year of publication:
2017
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
47-59
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2017.04.04
- PDF:
kie/118/kie11804.pdf
Human identity is one of the key issues of a successful existence. It is not possible to avoid answering such questions as: Who am I? How do I understand myself? What do I identify myself with? Those questions demand answers, which are being continuously verified because of the changing individual, social and cultural conditions. Nowadays, one of the main features of reality is a very strong concentration on human body, its appearance, physical attractiveness, and compatibility with socially promoted ideals. The socially popularized model is a young, beautiful, charming and fit body. This is especially true for the body of a woman – a representative of the fair sex. Meeting those social expectations is not an easy task. It requires a lot of effort and sacrifice. While it is not a problem for younger women, it is very difficult and problematic for elderly women.
In this article, the selected identity dilemmas experienced by nowadays elderly women will be discussed based on the available research described in Polish and foreign literature. As a result of the aging process of the body, the elderly woman’s body is far from the socially promoted ideal of the female body. This situation affects the self-esteem of elderly women and forces them to redefine themselves and their identity. The studies conducted so far have shown that the elderly women adopt various strategies in order to deal with these dilemmas. This article, inter alia, will discuss those strategies.
- Author:
Anita Stefańska
- Year of publication:
2015
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
231-242
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.2015.41.3.19
- PDF:
tner/201503/tner20150319.pdf
The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis of the impact of drama therapy on self-awareness of the role of the body among the intellectually disabled. In particular, it was intended to examine the effects of drama therapy involving improvisation on adolescents with moderate intellectual disability. The study is focused on assessing their levels of selfawareness of the role of the body in interpersonal relationships. The instrument used for the purpose of this study was designed by the author. It consists of a ”Body in action” test, which comprises 16 questions examining the level of self-evaluation of non-verbal behaviours in social interactions. The subjects were administered the test before and after a series of drama therapy workshops. Results indicate the connection between participation in drama therapy workshops based on improvisation and an increased level of the participants’ self-awareness of the role of the body in interpersonal relationships. At this stage of research, however, the conclusions cannot be extended to the whole age-group of the intellectually disabled. This study constitutes a starting point for further exploration of this issue. It outlines a direction, since, based on the results obtained, it can be stated that non-verbal communication plays a significant role in the development of social competences.
- Author:
Annalisa Piccirillo
- E-mail:
annalisa.piccirillo@libero.it
- Institution:
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8381-9932
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
307-322
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/IW.2019.10.1.31
- PDF:
iw/10_2/iw10218.pdf
Female corpo-graphies: a matri-archive of the dancing, thinking, migrant body
Ballet is the language that is most representative of dance culture in Italy, with its famous male librettists and choreographers, the archons of its knowledge. This academic tradition is closely connected to the aesthetic representation of the ethereal image of the female body - and the way she must be, without “weight”. By proposing a “matri-archival” methodology, this paper aims to interrogate the roles and the values that have been “choreographed” into the representation of women inside and beyond the Italian theatre-dance scene. The purpose is to discuss the choreographic experimentations where, instead, women dance and make dance themselves through their bodywriting - here proposed as corpo-graphy. I select, in the form of fragments, practices of art of the lives of women and pioneers of western Dance History in order to trace the principles of “repetition and destruction” - which are always at play in every archiving act (Derrida, 1996) - of a specific force and quality of movement: “gravity”. Conceptually and metaphorically, “gravity” is conceived here as both the “weight” of the body and of the choreographic “thinking” that supports it. Following this way of thinking, I recall fragments of dance, theatre-dance, and video-dance, briefly referring to the corporeal stories of women and archons who rewrote the representative memory of the ethereal body transmitted through ballet women who embody, dance, and think the research of a political and poetical protest. I conclude with an example of female corpo-graphy that hosts, on and with a woman’s own corporeality, the experience of contemporary migration.
- Author:
Dariusz Pakalski
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Gdański
- Year of publication:
2014
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
37-51
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2014.03.03
- PDF:
kie/103/kie10303.pdf
The article concerns Thomas Mann’s view on culture and on anthropology. The analyses of the works by the German writer point at the relations between his conception and Fridrich Schiller’s conception of man as a sensuous and sprititual being. Mann’s works, such as Death in Venice or The Magic Mountain are the literary equivalent of the unfinished essay on aesthetics On Spirit and Art. The author stresses the important role of eroticism in the description of culture. Eroticism should be conceived in a wide sense, not only in relation to bodily desire, but as a basis of aesthetic experience. Seen from this angle, Mann’s writings contain a series of reflections about culture and about man, reflections rooted in the modern conceptions presented by Kant and Schiller and later developed by contemporary psychoanalysis and the philosophy of existence.