LITERARY EXPERIENCING CULTURAL VISUALISATIONS: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF (RE)CONSTRUCTION (Doswiadczanie kulturowych wizualizacji. Antropologia (re)konstrukcji)

The proposed analysis of the category of modernity within the perspective of post-modern critical history of art aims at showing how the relations with an image change where the issue of image as cultural visualisation of experience - i.e. as the speakable language - has been reversed toward a question of experiencing the image. The field of the observation is analysis of the image of a certain (specific) town as a record of social participation in which memory can be watched, i.e. memory becomes visible as a performative category. This is effectuated by means of an aesthetic experience which leads to generation of memory as a cultural experience and to rehabilitation of the notion of emotion and sentimental involvement in perceiving/experiencing art (as in Gernot Boehm). Analysed is a project by young Polish artist Aleksandra Polisiewicz titled 'Wartopia', a project referring to plans and realisation of a Socialist Warsaw appears as a continuation of the project in question. The idea of tabula rasa which governed the fascist plans has namely been implemented by the other totalitarian regime – i.e. communism and its own visions of a Socialist Warsaw that led to an experiment materialised.