Nireńska: on the Vulnerability of the Archive and Body Dancing Here and Now
Katarzyna Bojarska
kabojarska@gmail.comSWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7872-5763
Abstract
The point of departure for this article is the question of the possibility of a biography of a woman – an artist – a survivor of the Holocaust. This question is answered through the juxtaposition of two attempts to examine the history of the life and art of Pola Nireńska, which came into circulation more or less at the same time. One of them is an artistic project: the cooperation of a choreographer, dancer and visual artist - Druga natura Grzywnowicz / Siniarska / Wolinska, while the other is a written biography by Weronika Kostyrko entitled Tancerka i Zagłada. Historia Poli Nireńskiej. The author reconstructs the assumptions of both of these projects, the way they treat Nireńska and poses fundamental questions about the meaning of biography today, taking into account both the most recent diagnoses from the field of biographical writing, such as trauma theory and Holocaust research. (Transl. K. Bojarska)
Keywords:
Pola Nireńska, modern dance, biography, women, art, HolocaustReferences
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Katarzyna Bojarskakabojarska@gmail.com
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7872-5763
Assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies of the SWPS University in Warsaw. Previously worked at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008-2019). Recipient of numerous research grants and awards including Junior Fulbright Research Fellow at Cornell University, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago; World as an Archive. Critical Modes of Historicity, Events after the Holocaust. Comparative Studies in Traumatic Realism, currently she works in Horizon2020 RePast - Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future project. Author of articles and translations interested in the relations of art, literature, history and psychoanalysis. Author of a book Wydarzenia po Wydarzeniu: Białoszewski – Richter – Spiegelman (2012) Translated among others Michael Rothberg's Multidirectional Memory (2016). and editor of Ernst van Alphen's Criticism as Intervention: Art, Memory, Affect (2019). Editor of View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture journal, president of the View. Foundation for Visual Culture.
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