<p>still from a film published on <a>YouTube</a> by Terry Diamond that became the point of departure for Philip Scheffner's <em>Havarie</em> (2016)</p>
<p>still from a film published on <a>YouTube</a> by Terry Diamond that became the point of departure for Philip Scheffner's <em>Havarie</em> (2016)</p>

No. 14: Refugees: Fugitive Images, Memory in Motion

Managing editors: Iwona Kurz, Paweł Mościcki

still from a film published on YouTube by Terry Diamond that became the point of departure for Philip Scheffner's Havarie (2016)

This issue was supported by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, from the funds of the program for the popularization of scholarship in 2015. Published in collaboration with the project History Atlas Under Construction, co-financed byr the European Commission - Europe for Citizens Programme, and supported by the Evens Foundation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Refugees: Fugitive Images, Memory in Motion

    ”Refugees: Fugitive Images, Memory in Motion”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.838

    Introduction to issue 14 of "View."

    keywords: refugees; visual culture; memory and history; aesthetics and politics

Close-up

  1. Image as a Common Good. On Laura Waddington's Film "Border"

    Paweł Mościcki
    Paweł Mościcki, ”Image as a Common Good. On Laura Waddington's Film "Border"”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.839

    The article is a thorough analysis of the film Border (2004) by Laura Waddington. The author argues that her artistic strategy is a form of “sharing the image” with refugees rather than simply representing them in one form or the other. This interpretation tries to give an account of various visual effects produced thanks to this procedure as well as to demonstrate their political and ethical meanings.

    keywords: Laura Waddington; refugees; visual culture; aesthetics and politics; the commons

  2. Images of Damaged Time

    Aleksander Kmak
    Aleksander Kmak, ”Images of Damaged Time”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.840

    The article is an analysis of Havarie by Philip Scheffner as a picture about the very process of making pictures of refugees. The author applies the perspective of visual culture studies to argue with instrumentalisation of representations, which is typical for social psychology, and to question simple differentiation between humanitarian and non-human images of refugees.

    keywords: Philip Scheffner; images of refugees; avant-garde cinema; humanitarian gaze

  3. The Unlost on Highways: Refugees and Altruistic Memory

    Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
    Włodzimierz Karol Pessel, ”The Unlost on the Highway. Refugees and Altruistic Memory”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.841

    This article explores the reception of the European migrant crisis in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries. It departs from an analysis of the famous photograph by Michael Drost-Hansen that presented a refugee girl and a policeman. The picture won the title of best news photography of the year 2015 in Denmark. The author examines its modes of circulation and relation to the memory of Danish history. He demonstrates how the popularity of the photo is rooted in the "altruistic memory" of the Danish society, in particular in its heroism during the Nazi German occupation, when Danes were rescuing Jews and organised the White Bus operation. The author points out that the mechanisms of "altruistic memory" may cover the negative aspects of contemporary Danish migration policy.

    keywords: Denmark; refugees; Michael Drost-Hansen; danish photography; memory and history

  4. Migrations and Francophone Comics

    Martyna Steckiewicz
    Martyna Steckiewicz, ”Migrations and Francophone Comics”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.842

    The article discusses the relation between migrations and Francophone comics over the years. Analyzing the most important events and turning points in the development of Francophone comics, it reaches the contemporary period and the birth of the so-called "new hero" of the comic books by Francophone authors – the migrant. The text analyzes also the issue of movement – literally (in applied artistic methods) and metaphorically (in the plot of presented stories).

    keywords: migrations; francophone comics; postcolonialism; memory and history

Panorama

  1. Jacek Kryszkowski: Fugitive from Culture – Part 2: The Expedition

    Marcin Kościelniak
    Marcin Kościelniak, ”Jacek Kryszkowski: Fugitive from Culture – 2”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.1844

    A monographic presentation of the work of Jacek Kryszkowski, the artist active in the1980's, connected to the Łódź’s Kultura Zrzuty (Pitch-In Culture) community. On the ground of his writings, statements and actions, the author (re)constructs “escape from culture” project that lies at the heart of Kryszkowski’s oeuvre. In the first part of the article (Zrzuta) the author presents a portrait of Kryszkowski, in the second one (Wyprawa – The Expedition) he focuses on a famous Kryszkowski's action of self-appointed importing of Witkacy’s ashes from Jeziory to Poland (1985). The results of the “investigation” and the presentation of his action become a tool to demonstrate the core of Kryszkowski’s cultural criticism.

    keywords: Jacek Kryszkowski; Kultura Zrzuty; polish art in 1980.; art history; culture criticism

Perspectives

  1. Choreography of Discrete Shifts

    Katarzyna Bojarska, Anna Konik
    Katarzyna Bojarska, Anna Konik, ”Choreography of Discrete Shifts”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.787

    A conversation with Anna Konik concerning her practice and especiallyher project In the same city, under the same sky... (2011–2015).

    keywords: women's art; memory; refugees; affects; Anna Konik

  2. Sources and Constellations

    Tomasz Szerszeń, Krzysztof Pijarski, Arno Gisinger
    Tomasz Szerszeń, Krzysztof Pijarski et al., ”Sources and Constellations”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.844

    A conversation with photographer and visual theorist Arno Gisinger.

    keywords: constellations; archives; Walter Benjamin; Aby Warburg; Georges Didi-Huberman; atlas

Viewpoint

  1. Who Where

    Margot Sputo
    Margot Sputo, ”Who Where”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.2015

    Presentation of the project Who Where (2016).

    keywords: Margot Sputo; images of refugees; contemporary art; aesthetics and politics

  2. Tactile Images and the Experience of Refugees

    Iwona Kurz
    Iwona Kurz, ”Tactile Images and the Experience of Refugees”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.845

    An essay on the Who Where by Margot Sputo (2016).

    keywords: Margot Sputo; images of refugees; contemporary art; aesthetics and politics

  3. Un Air d’accueil (2013–2015)

    Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza
    Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, ”Un Air d’accueil ”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.803

    Presentation of the project Un Air d’accueil (2013–2015) Un Air d’accueil (2013–2015)

    keywords: photography; art and refugees; cinema; Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza

  4. Shelter in the Image

    Paweł Mościcki
    Paweł Mościcki, ”Shelter in the Image”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.846

    An essay accompanying the presentation of the project Un Air d'accueil by Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza.

    keywords: photography; art and refugees; cinema; Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza

Snapshots

  1. Vision Delay

    Iwona Kurz
    Iwona Kurz, ”Vision Delay”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.807

    The review of films Fuocoammare. Fire at the Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi, prod. France, Italy, 2016) and The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me (dir. Anka and Wilhelm Sasnals, prod. Poland, Switzerland, 2016), that propose a new optics towards so-called refugee crisis in Europe and in Poland.

    keywords: Wilhelm Sasnal; Anka Sasnal; Gianfranco Rosi; refugees; cinema

  2. "Folk art", Moving beyond the National Style

    Monika Borys
    Monika Borys, ”"Folk art", Moving beyond the National Style”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.811

    Review of the exhibition "Poland - A Country of Folklore?", curated by  Joanna Kordjak, Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki,Warsaw, October 15, 2016 – January 15 2017

    keywords: contemporary art; foklore; folk art; People's Republic of Poland; countryside

  3. Recommended Reading

    ”Recommended Reading”, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 14 (2016), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.14.815

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