4 9 / 4 4 . r p . j e r - DIALOG S M / 7 5 1 o g e w phen iben o s nr OCTOBER -NOVEMBER -DECEMBER a r p u r t s e j e r r n 6 9 4 3 - 5 2 4 1 N S S I G IMAGE AND LIKENESS G Tímea Junghaus Str. - G Some Words on Artistic Freedom G Zbigniew Mikołejko Str. - G GABI JIMENEZ. AN ARTIST AND A NOMAD IN FRANCE G Str. - G Damian and Delaine Le Bas – Lives of the Artists G n e b omas Acton Str. - G i PLACE OF SEEING, G ROMA ART Everyone wants to breathe the air that belongs to us all n e and go to the places that belong to us all. Everyone has the right to do h PLACE OF DIALOGUE G Bartosz T. Wieliński p what they want. I do not want to be told what I should or should not do. G G O Str. - Roma Museum and the Prague G PHOTO STORY Auditions are short, just three minutes per person. L A Candidates can chose whatever they want to play, as well as the I Spring G Tomasz Maćkowiak Str.- G D instrument (singing is also an option). e choice of repertoire is limited HUNGARY G Piotr Wójcik, J.Celichowski Str. - to jazz and classical music; muzak or elevator music is out of the question. 1 DIALOG-PHENIBEN - N° 1 Editor-in-chief Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska Editor Dariusz Fedor Editorial office secretary Małgorzata Kołaczek Translations Rafał Uzar, Marcin Wawrzyńczak Proofreading Grażyna Kwiek Concept and production DIALOG FUNDACJA OPOWIEDZ TO – PICTURE THIS Design and photo edition Dominique Roynette, Piotr Wójcik phen iben Pictures preparation Mariusz Glejzer The Quarterly of the Roma People Association in Poland Printing House Colonel, Kraków Finances Renata Mucha Publisher STOWARZySZENIE ROMóW W POlSCE ul. Berka Joselewicza 5 32-600 Oświęcim tel./faks: 033 842 69 89 [email protected] FUNDACJAF U N D A C J A www.stowarzyszenie.romowie.net phenibenpphDIALOGDhIeenAnLibibOeenGn Contact y z r a www.dialog-pheniben.pl l p m [email protected] e z g e Also on Facebook 0 0 0 1 : d a ł k e task is realized from the financial sources a n , of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 4 9 / 4 4 . r p . j e r e task is realized thanks to the grant - of the Minister of Administration S M / 7 and Digitalization 5 1 : o g e w o s a r p u r t s e j e r r n , 6 9 4 3 - 5 2 4 1 : N S S I e Man ? the best investment ! u s k e d e project co-financed by the European Union n I r under the European Social Fund N L DIALOG A phen iben I R O T I D '% &( nr &' E Daniel Baker, whose work “Mirrored Books” was part of the “Houses as Silver as Tents” exhibition in the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, said that the “image of Roma in books and newspapers is not created by ROMA MAIL Roma themselves”. The Roma artist took 48 historical books and stories about Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska ................................................................ @-A Roma and copied their covers onto mirrored surfaces. In so doing he tried to ❝highlight the fact that any description of the Roma community is a reflection ROMA ART of how they are seen, or want to be seen, by other people. Image and Likeness . oughts on Roma in Art and the Art of Roma Art defines our world in a visual sense. It also defines and describes the artist, their identity and the community to which they belong. Roma artists have only Tímea Junghaus ........................................................................................ B-<? recently been able to make use of this ‘privilege’. Up until the middle of the Some Words on Artistic Freedom. Zbigniew Mikołejko ................ <@-=; twentieth century, the way in which Roma were presented and represented was Gabi Jimenez. An Artist and a Nomad in France. monopolised by artists who were not even Romani. Any work produced by Gabi Jimenez ........................................................................................... =<-=C Roma was termed folk art, primitive, naïve or archetypal. Today, Roma artists, like Roma intellectuals, are creating a new Roma identity. Damian and Delaine Le Bas – Lives of the Artists. They are both educated and proud of their roots. They are reconstructing omas Acton ...................................................................................... >:-?; history and building a Roma culture, and determining how it can be presented Place of Seeing, Place of Dialogue. Bartosz T. Wieliński .............. ?<-<= to the world. The crowning achievement in this process was the First Roma nd „Roma Museum and the Prague Spring. Pavilion at the 52 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. This highlighted the changing approach to Roma, which was a consequence of modern reflections ?>-?A Tomasz Maćkowiak ............................................................................... on society, ethnicity and multiculturalism. It was obvious to see that art was PHOTOREPORT also burdened with stereotypes about Roma and the people with this bias had excluded Roma art from the official canon, believing it to be invalid and not 2013 Hungary. Piotr Wójcik, Jerzy Celichowski .............................. ?B-A= appropriate. Today, Roma artists are active across a wide variety of fields. They are repossessing, negating, analysing and changing stereotypes. They are creating an image of Roma which stands in opposition to that manufactured by the dominant culture. In this way they are discovering new sides to Roma tradition, highlighting its relationship with modern culture. Furthermore, they are fighting for an audience as they know full well that their work can quickly be pigeonholed into ethnographic art or art which becomes noticeable only when Roma issues hit the headlines for whatever reason. There are of course other obstacles in the perception of Roma in Europe, which have become synonymous with society’s problems. There has been no real debate on or consideration of Roma culture and any public debate largely concerns the values which, according to many, hinder the integration of this community with the rest of Europe. It is therefore difficult to promote the work of Roma artists, unless theirs is a Cinderella-like tale of Gypsy rags to riches. DIALOG distributors: Białystok: Kawiarnia Labalbal, ul. Warszawska 21 lok. 3; Gdańsk: Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka But even then any discussion on the artistic merits of their work is sidelined Publiczna w Gdańsku, ul. Targ Rakowy 5/6; Kielce: Stowarzyszenie Jana Karskiego, ul. Paderewskiego 40; and the work of the artist ends up in another pigeonhole labelled “Roma art”. Nowy Sącz: Małopolskie Centrum Kultury Sokół, ul. Długosza 3; Oświęcim: Centrum Dialogu i Modlitwy, Enjoy this edition of “Pheniben”! ul. Kolbego 1, Międzynarodowy Dom Spotkań Młodzieży, ul. Legionów 11, Centrum Żydowskie, pl. Jana Skarbka 5; Warszawa: Dom Spotkań z Historią, ul. Karowa 20, Księgarnia Instytutu Reportażu Wrzenie Świata, ul. Gałczyńskiego 7 Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska 4 DIALOG-PHENIBEN - N° 12 DIALOG-PHENIBEN - N° 12 5 ROMA MAIL G JOANNA TALEWICZDKWIATKOWSKA OCTOBER France – Kosovo NOVEMBER Hungary Dibrani Family Woes Slovakia Dawn of Darkness leonarda Dibrani, the teenager Neo-Nazi Governor Roma girl who was expelled from A group of radical ultra-right Martin Kotleba, leader of the France to Kosovo, has once again wingers in Budapest have banned “Slovenská Pospolitosť” had to come to terms with yet announced the establishment of a (“Slovak Solidarity”), which harks another personal tragedy. leonarda new political force under the name back to the traditions of the Slovak and her family were attacked in of “Hungarian Dawn” (MH), Nazi puppet state created aer the Kosovska Mitrovica and her inspired by the Greek neo-Nazis of partition of Czechoslovakia by the injured mother was taken to “Golden Dawn”. MH, established ird Reich, has been elected hospital. Associated Press reported by former members of far-right governor of the Banská Bystrica that the family were attacked by a “Jobbik”, have already stated their Region. Roma couple and both families are intention to take part in the 2014 e new governor is known for now being questioned by the elections. “Hungarian Dawn” has organising protests and marches police. declared their affinity for “Golden against the Slovakian Roma e Dibranis had been living in Dawn” and their wish to work minority. He is currently head of Paris. e Roma family’s more closely with the Greek neo- the nationalistic “People Party - s w application for political asylum was e N Nazis. What is more, the founders Our Slovakia”. European neo-Nazi t s rejected by the French Ministry of a E / of MH are disappointed that parties seem to be growing in P the Interior which led to F A Spain / “Jobbik” allowed its military wing, strength and we can only hope that e n leonarda’s father being e G Inspirational Tarragona the “Hungarian Guard recent declarations by economists s i apprehended by the French police u l L Movement”, to be dissolved. of the official end to the global : o on 8 October and sent back to t The aim of the programme, which kicked off in o “Magyar Gárda” terrorised local crisis may buck this trend. h Kosovo. e day aer, leonarda’s P November 2013 in a school in Tarragona, western Roma by organising marches mother and her five siblings were Spain, is to improve the level of education of through places where Hungarian arrested by the police. 15-year-old Poland mediation and also dismissed a anonymously informed the public children and adults of the Roma community. Roma lived. leonarda was on a school trip at motion by the attorney prosecutor’s office about the Twenty parents of the children that go to the school In August of this year, three far- Wrocław in Court the time.