Komunikacja nieuczesana. Włochata (nie)czytelność jako ucieleśniona i afektywna strategia sztuki współczesnej
Unkempt Communication. Hairy (Il)Legibility as an Embodied and Affective Strategy of Contemporary Art

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this text is to demonstrate that the formation of written signs using hair and stretched between legibility and illegibility transcends and expands the potential of rationalized language. The works and performances of selected artists from different parts of the world, such as Iwona Demko, Małgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana, Yoko Ono, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Wiktoria Walendzik, Olha Skliarska, Karin Sander, Birgit Maaß, and Mithu Sen confirm this thesis, since we are dealing with somatic communication deeply saturated with affects inconceivable in classical discursive structures. Works that operate with hair – real or artificial and used for writing – challenge logocentrism and create new forms of often paradoxical communication that can be described by the term: hairgraphy – hairwriting. In this text they are analysed from the perspective of an affective turn, a revision of the concept of subjectivity, a theory of expanded hapticity, artistic trichophilia, embodiment, écriture féminine or the transgression of the visual regime.

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