Tożsamość a widzialność: Osoby ciemnoskóre w polu kreatywnym

In the next debate of the "Black is Polish" research group, Ogi Ugonoh, Maja ∀. Ngom, Oliwia Bosomtwe, Wiktor Baginski, and Ramat S. Musa will meet to discuss cultural identity and art in Poland and abroad.

The panel will begin with a presentation that, drawing on research, observation, and personal experience, will examine what it really means to be a dark-skinned person, especially in the context of increasing cultural appropriation. As we will see, the identity of a dark-skinned person is not an aesthetic, mask, or costume that can be voluntarily assumed, but a complex cultural identity (strong, personal, not easily categorized) and a series of shared experiences. The belief that darker-skinned people are a new "phenomenon" in Polish society and the important consequences of such a viewpoint will also be critically analyzed.

In the second part of the meeting the participants will talk about what they do at work every day, how artistic activity shapes them, how they express themselves through it and how they co-create Polish culture. At the end of the meeting, we will have the opportunity to reflect together on what "responsible art" can be? And why is it important to draw responsibly from black culture even, or perhaps especially, in Poland?

Black is Polish (Czarne jest polskie) is a research group set up by Afropolitan activists and educators who, during the Black Lives Matter pandemic and protests, publicized the experiences of Polish women and men of African descent in the Polish public debate. Their efforts resulted in a series of debates published on YouTube about discrimination (#DontCallMeMurzyn) and a petition to the members of the Rhetoric and Public Communication Team to introduce a change in the definition of the word "Murzyn" in the Dictionary of the Polish Language by recognizing its meaning as pejorative.