Egzystencjalne i ekonomiczne wymiary „czynnościowania” Zofii Kulik i jej matki Heleny
The text analyses Zofia Kulik’s two films that form the cycle ”Cultivating the Archive: How the Sum Total of Small Actions Builds the Archive” (2016) and ”A Sum of Rags and an Archive Next Door, the Kingdom of Helena Kulik, Zofia’s Mother, in which the Archivist Grew Up” (2017). Both interweave two...
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Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2018-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://miejsce.asp.waw.pl/egzystencjalne-i-ekonomiczne-wymiary-czynnosciowania-zofii-kulik-i-jej-matki-heleny-2/ |
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| Summary: | The text analyses Zofia Kulik’s two films that form the cycle ”Cultivating the Archive: How the Sum Total of Small Actions Builds the Archive” (2016) and ”A Sum of Rags and an Archive Next Door, the Kingdom of Helena Kulik, Zofia’s Mother, in which the Archivist Grew Up” (2017). Both interweave two themes: work and the mother – daughter relation.
The artist shows that her connection with her mother runs through ‘activitation’ (‘czynnościowanie‘, Zofia Kulik’s term) – an inner urge to constantly ‘do something’ and the resulting ongoing performance of a range of activities that are (or at least Kulik and her mother believe them to be) necessary for the maintenance of the collection and the surrounding environment. However, their activities are not identical and, above all, they function differently in the social order. The films do not raise the question of labour division in a straightforward way, but it resonates more strongly in statements concerning the mother’s significance in the development of the artist’s career. I also highlight a different economic aspect of ‘activitation’: the failure to satisfy the neoliberal demand of productivity. |
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| ISSN: | 2450-1611 2956-4158 |