Vol. 19 No. 1 (2022): Transmediality of the Archive. Presentations: Ewa Zarzycka

The upcoming issue of ”Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” focuses on the concept of „Transmediality of the Archive”. Authors of the essays presented in the main section scrutinise materiality of the archive,  revealing itself in its inter and transmedia form, where audiovisual, photographic and digital (or other) intermediaries transfer the sphere of  materiality of the archive into the area of constant media interactions and transmedial "flows". The subjects of the research are Białoszewski’s sound archive, the curatorship of the Themerson’s archive, Derrida’s private archive, Lewczyński’s idea of the „archeology of photography”, amateur photo albums, the ecofeminist trasmedia performance by Malik, Józef Pilch’s archival passion and contemporary literary travels through the memory archives to Galicia. The Presentations section is devoted to Ewa Zarzycka, the performance artist, and her work, in which the idea of the transmediality of the archive functions in a particularly interesting way. Zarzycka’s text on photography and famous „written drawings” are accompanied by a conversation with the artist. The issue is concluded with the Varia section, including text on the spectrality of states in Wojciech Górecki’s travel narratives.