Vol. X – Trickster Strategies in the Artists’ and Curatorial Practice, ANNA MARKOWSKA (ed.)
Contents: From the Editor: ANNA MARKOWSKA, Trickster in democratic and non-democratic systems; – History of Trickster. Urban Myths and Events: BOŻENNA STOKŁOSA, Trickster – mythical deity, archetype and figure of a creator; TOMASZ GRYGLEWICZ, Trickster or jester/clown?; WALDEMAR OKOŃ, Tricksters and others; KATARZYNA ZIMNA, Tricksters lead the game; ANNA ŻAKIEWICZ, Witkacy – a perfect trickster; JERZY LUTY, The demilitarization of language: a serious musical concern. John Cage’s trickster strategy in Empty Words; MARTA SMOLIŃSKA, Tricksters in Poznań: Penerstwo and The Krasnals; PATRYCJA GWOŹDZIEWICZ, Lady or trickster with an ermine. Review of actions around the most famous picture in Polish collections; – Role of Trickster in Post/-Communist and Post-Colonial Countries: IRINA GAVRASH, Subversive strategies in contemporary Russian art; NIKO ANKLAM, Masks and Camouflage. Some notes on a postcolonial in-between space of the trickster; KAMILA WRÓBEL, Hero’s revolutionary song. Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin; JILL GIBBON, War Mart: trickster strategies in war art and the arms trade; MAŁGORZATA MICUŁA, „Professional Bad Guys”: the rebellious British and Polish art in the context of changes in the Nineties; – Outdoor activism: PATRYCJA PIRÓG, Trickster on Polish Street; GILLIAN WHITELEY, Political pranksters, provocateurs and Pan-Ic: re-connecting countercultural practices; DOMINIKA BISZCZAK-KULCZYCKA, Defense of the cross – a spontaneous social movement or artistic provocation?; MAGDALENA ZIĘBA, Trickster games in the public space. Between art and culture jamming; MAGDALENA WORŁOWSKA, Cecylia Malik’s anarchic and mischievous actions, inspirations and related situations; – Trickster and Gender: IZABELA KOWALCZYK, Vulnerable masculinity in the works of young Polish artists; MAŁGORZATA JANKOWSKA,The female trickster: on the artistic strategies of Natalia LL; AGNIESZKA ŻECHOWSKA, Beast in the claws of Europe: Aleka Polis’ art; EWELINA JAROSZ, “Newman”: a trickster in every sense of the word!; – Curatorial Performances: IRINA HASNAȘ HUBBARD, Curatorial performances. Looking for trickster curators in museums in Romania; PATRYCJA SIKORA, PIOTR STASIOWSKI, Swindlers, rascals and parasites; WOJCIECH CIESIELSKI, Three gaps in the process?; MIHAELA-LUCIA ION Curatorial project: the communication between the public and the artists; FILIP PRĘGOWSKI, Angry tricks. On Kazimierz Piotrowski’s exhibition in the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń; EWELINA KWIATKOWSKA, Love me – if you don’t I will force you! Artist’s and curator’s strategies on the example of the vernissage exhibition of Izabella Chamczyk in Arttrakt gallery: – In Between Different Domains and Spaces: IRMA KOZINA, Trickster strategies in critical design; CEZARY WĄS, „Trick” and „Click” – Peter Eisenman’s design strategies; JANUSZ ANTOS, An artist and a library. Bibliophilia in contemporary Polish art; MONIKA SAMSEL-CHOJNACKA, The figure of trickster in crime novels by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø; ROB IRVING, Art, artifice, articulations: the trickster as a methodological principle of artists performance in ritual transactions with the orderly.
Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warsaw–Toruń 2013
ISBN 978-83-62737-26-0 (302 pp.)
