Transeuropa Normativity is apparently few days ago, started the festival in Lublin Transeuropa which theme of democracy, equality, and transnational culture. The Transeuropy daily in different parts of the city are held lectures, debates, meetings and workshops. In the Gallery of Labyrinth takes an exhibition organized by Paul Leszkowicz "Love is love" and an exhibition of contemporary art in Albania "Garden of Dreams", a fragment of curatorial project Wenceslas Kuchma. Transeuropa reveals the multiplicity and diversity - in constructing their identity, in the approach to life, in relationships. Behind this noble and somewhat utopian idea to tune the various points of view and make them visible, remove them ewenementu odium against the grain so Utopian that it is difficult to expect that such an event a change in social consciousness. However, it is to domesticate it, there is no single "only right" vision. I think the greatest value is to challenge Transeuropy "standards" in various areas of life - and show it as a construct, an artificial creation, which are arranged neatly in our consciousness for decades legitimized functioning. Called a tradition of normality - that is all that allows you to somehow grasp and organize the chaos of life. But the world is much more varied than the patterns in which was wprzężony. Any attempt to raise awareness of people is valuable, provocative to think for themselves, makes it collide with reality in its various manifestations. I opened the box to the very lively discussion.
Try walk in my shoes - just go into my skin
wondered how to combine these various, scattered threads which appeared on Transeuropie and I thought of shoes, which appeared repeatedly in various contexts. Shoes are a good metaphor for the normative agent, who is organizing our lives and pushed in the net schemes. Kazimiera Szczuka mentioned the pantofelku Cinderella, Anna Markowska showed a picture of the artist Roni Horn in two pairs of shoes not to, in turn, Anna Grodzka transseksualistka, foundation president of Trans-fusion changed the men's footwear women's boots.
in Cinderella with the prince goes looking for a lost slipper and the girls' feet, which suits him. Cinderella sisters cut their toes to make their feet fit in the boot. The rate is much mutilated, which immobilizes the girl, it fits the pattern.
The term feminist is a mutilation in order to meet the requirements of "femininity" is also implementing a girl in a rigid corset female roles. Kazimiera Szczuka in an interview with Tom Kitlińskim told about this occasion to talk about her book a few years ago Cinderella, Frankenstein, and others. Cinderella's glass slippers can be seen as an unparalleled master at the same time ingenious way to do that a woman has the magic of "tradition" and filled her feminine duty. Szczuka said about women - both in terms of myth and as well as real life situations - such as single motherhood, abortion (on the occasion of the recently published "Big Book of abortion"), the mechanisms of exclusion from the public sphere.
Kazimiera Szczuka provokes, it is uncompromising, evocative rhetoric operates. Strategy irritation makes it important that social problems are more visible, more stings the eyes. In summer the discussion could easily marginalize them. Szczuka sheds light on them and did not leave indifferent. Can be interpreted as an expression of persuasion, you can claim zniuansowania issues that obrysowuje fairly sharp outline - but you can not deny the effectiveness of its language. The clarity of views and the way they communicate clearly revived the crowd gathered in the labyrinth.
In essence, flowing Szczuka had therapeutic value - brightly illuminated issues polarized the audience, confronted audiences with their own value systems. Pointed to the cracks and weaknesses, which generally people do not want to imagine. Szczuka scored spheres of life, which is most visible in the unequal status of women and men - described the disproportionate number of men and women polytechnic colleges. Proposed to reverse the situation that prevailed in Poland until quite recently, and add points for women sex. Audience markedly. Hard zaoponowali men but what is interesting odezwało timidly a few women, expressing their support for the arguments of men. One of the girls expressed the belief that adding points to sex to increase the number of women in technical and medical fields is derogatory to women (?) Is interesting that for any of the privileges men have never been offensive to women ... as it turns out very easily fall into the trap of thinking which identified Szczuka transparent patriarchal-capitalist conspiracy. This thinking, which favors men but as you can see women get so mentally incapacitated that it did not really have the desire to see it.
Like we all know how to Train the girl - to be polite, listened to the elders, have clean shoes and nails. Girls play mini mop and a set of cookware. Szczuka sarcastically mentioned that before they give their vote to a case must have at least two faculties. This cultural training is strongly grounded and even the women is not easy to stop imposing the restrictions. In adult life, they must embrace the whole set roles and prove to themselves and the world that are suitable and fall of each well. Deviations from this pattern are often socially discredited. And despite the feminist emphasis is not much exaggeration in this, as you well know single working mothers, women deliberately childless, Lesbians, women who chose the less conformist life scenario or a more dramatic variant has been imposed on them. I realize that the feminist rhetoric can cause a smile on the faces of some indulgence. As rightly pointed out Paul Leszkowicz we are now at the time of indifference to the matter social equality - the already somewhat solidified in the public debate and makes a very disturbing callousness.
policy of equality and social issues is one of the colors in the rainbow Transeuropy, there are also Queer stories from the world of art. Anna Markowska, professor lecturer at the University of Wroclaw - monographic lectures on contemporary American art in Lublin told about the construction of a new, halucynacyjnego male body. Her presentation focused mainly on two well-known American artists - Matthew Barney and Robert Gobera but Roni Horn. Markowska spoke about the breakdown of traditional patterns of masculinity and male body - as the personification of strength and vigor. Men's body is dismembered, fluctuating. In Robert Gobera appear prosthesis and amputations. Portions of male legs protruding horizontally from the wall. Girls' legs dangle above the sink alarmingly. All objects are painstakingly Gobera and hand-built sculpture, perfectly mimetic and completely divorced from the context of their prototypes. Matthew Barney shows endless stories in the form of a hybrid system, video stylized performances and films. He is the creator of the "Cremaster" - a very complex film projects, which are associated with installations, drawings, photographs and books.
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Rafal Karcz Painting This study forms of everyday life. Cartoons, hasty snapshot straight from the street art, stills from smoky café-bar, saturated color mix of pop culture in his works in different proportions. Karcz uses the medium of painting frivolously and with a high degree of freedom. His compositions reflect the states - intoxication, joy, melancholy, are open and follow the mood of the moment. Karcz portrays modern young angry, ethereal, decadent nymph, the atmosphere of intoxication, rozedrgania, smoldering rebellion in their hearts but impossible to meet. 
