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“No Journey Is Too Long”: Kuba Bąkowski’s Artistic Multiverse
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The article is an attempt to look at Kuba Bąkowski’s “travel” projects and to reflect on the tangled knots of meanings that the Polish artist has incorporated into a fairly simple formula of a photography-object or photography-installation. For many years, the artist has been traveling to distant regions of the North, for centuries representing the paradigm of the Journey into the Unknown. It is a journey in which he discovers “priceless knowledge”: wider, superhuman dimensions of the world. Moreover, the performances of lighting up Polaris (the Pole Star) and Ursa Major (the Great Bear) staged by him indicate thinking in terms of posthumanism and new animism. This practice is based on going beyond the medium of photography, which, according to Bąkowski, turns into a performative situation, based on specific places and joint activities of people participating in the creative process. All this creates a fascinating multiverse of overlapping meanings.
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Polaris, Ursa Major, posthumanism, performative photography, Vilém FlusserDetails
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