“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we cannot name something, we usually cannot think it either – and so it does not fit into our conception of the world.
Language users are pulled in various contradictory directions – for instance, curiosity about new words versus resistance to new versions of familiar terms, such as feminatives (feminine forms of job titles and activities). Yet the biggest linguistic upheaval of recent times has been caused by neutratives – formerly referred to simply as neuter forms – and the whole grammar of non-binary identity that goes with them.
And how do dictionaries, grammatical rules and actual usage fit into all this? We will discuss these questions with the visual artist Liliana Zeic (Piskorska) and Marzen Lizurej, a language expert and activist. The conversation will open Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)’s exhibition “My wszystkie.” (All of Us).
Host: Daria Sudoł
Guests: Liliana Zeic (Piskorska), Katarzyna Lisowska, Agata Kreska
Registration: https://bit.ly/wszyscy_i_wszystkie
Format: conversation followed by a discussion with the audience
Who should come: anyone interested in the topic
Room capacity: 20
Guests: Liliana Zeic (Piskorska), Katarzyna Lisowska, Agata Kreska
Registration: https://bit.ly/wszyscy_i_wszystkie
Format: conversation followed by a discussion with the audience
Who should come: anyone interested in the topic
Room capacity: 20
Liliana Zeic (Piskorska) – a visual artist, Doctor of Fine Arts and queer feminist. She has won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at Spojrzenia 2019 and OP YOUNG 2020. Her works are held in private and public collections such as Zachęta – National Gallery of Art and Wrocław Contemporary Museum. In her work, she analyses social issues from a perspective of radical sensitivity, as well as the relationship between the state, Central European identity and the position of peripheral identities. She has worked under the name Liliana Zeic since February 2020.
Katarzyna Lisowska – works in the Department of Literary Theory at the Institute of Polish Philology, University of Wrocław. Her interests include the body, gender and sexuality in literature and literary studies, as well as the practice (and theory) of anarchism. She has published the book “Metaforyczność w dyskursie genderowym polskiego literaturoznawstwa po 1989 roku” (Metaphoricity in the Gender Discourse of Polish Literary Studies after 1989; Kraków 2019).
Agata Kreska – a feminist and equality activist. She has taken part in the Spunk Foundation’s project on sexuality and anti-discrimination education and will soon qualify as a sex educator.
She was involved with the Razem party for several years and is currently a parliamentary assistant to MP Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk.
She is a co-founder of the Wrocław Supports Teachers initiative and works with Kultura Równości (Culture of Equality). A mother.
She was involved with the Razem party for several years and is currently a parliamentary assistant to MP Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk.
She is a co-founder of the Wrocław Supports Teachers initiative and works with Kultura Równości (Culture of Equality). A mother.
Daria Sudoł – a cultural critic, university lecturer, journalist, activist and feminist. A social educator, cultural animator and project coordinator, she has long been involved in the NGO sector and in efforts to empower local communities. She is engaged in a range of social and cultural initiatives and grassroots equality movements, and actively supports excluded groups, women’s causes, animal rights and the natural environment. She is president of Fundacja Punkt Widzenia and curator of Dialogopolis.
Dialogopolis is delivered as part of the ReSTART project, co-financed by the National Programme of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the state budget.
