Codzienna sztuka praktykowania miasta – taktyki chodzenia, pamiętania, wyobrażania i ewokowania obrazów przestrzeni miejskich

Abstract

Daily art of practicing the city; tactics of walking, remembering, imagining and evoking images of urban spaces

In contemporary art, humanities and social sciences (the third wave of sociology) there is a clear tendency to value the colloquiality and everyday practices of ordinary people. it is assumed that this is an area of reality that is effectively being created; social, cultural reality and that related to identity narratives. It is also assumed that contemporary man remains a participant of the dynamic game of assigning meanings in society, within which he has a limited but real field of freedom and creativity. One such area of human creative activity is the city space, where the “art of action” is practised every day, resulting in the creation of new imaginative figures of the city and, on the other hand, in the transformation of the subject itself in relation to the broadly understood urban space. These are vitalistic, process-oriented and “virtual” relations, based on how the subject undergoes a multifaceted (work of memory, imagination, senses) experience of certain elements of the city and evokes certain images of the city. The text refers to the personal experience of the author of the narrative and the place (Toruń, Rubinkowo I) which has become the subject of such interpretations.