Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Recommendations for the Bridge project

 

The Olawski bridge shall be a cultural site for one day in June 2015

There will be celebrated altogether 40 bridges as part of the preparations

for next year when Wroclaw shall be European Capital of Culture.

 

1. Description of the bridge

 

2. In reference to the Parmenides describe experiences of transformations

Given the example of Parmenides, it would be wise to structure the experiences made by anyone when crossing over the Olawski Bridge and upon reaching the other side having dipped into another world.

What would the 'key of fate' which could trigger such a transformation or alteration in the 'unity of perception'?

What follows out of such a 'le vecu' (lived through experience) in terms of the main memory track for life, so that even when looking back twenty years later or more, that experience can still be remembered because of having stepped out of the system (Sigmund Freud's 'memory track)

What could be some guidance on how to use (appreciate) the bridge, best done by expressing this not as a rule which someone must obey, but which would be most appropriate for a person to think about when walking over this enchanted bridge. It could be a gentle reminder like a touch on the shoulder now it is time to leave the experiences of the city behind. There is this example of Janusz Korczak who as director of the orphanage had to make sure the boys do not fight and some peace prevails but there was one who got always in a fight, so he ordered him to go down the longer corridor to the office of the director, but while the boy was walking in front of him, he could hear him sob, and Janusz did not know should he touch his shoulder to comfort him or keep a distance to preserve his authority as director. And then he said something significant: if especially a child cries you never know if it is a pain of the present or because the child senses thousand years of persecution and injustices? That then can refer to the method of interpretation in psychoanalysis, and which Adorno calls 'Deuten': pointing the finger directly at the key source of the problem.

Following philosophical questions can be handled and resolved within this bridge experience:

 

3. Poems as letters to the past, present and future

Matching to the little houses the children have made already as part of the preparation. Here may be reminded of the novel called 'Letters to the Past' with a Chinese poet and a Chinese philosopher speculating about how China will look like 1000 years from now. To find out, they build a time machine and then the poet climbs in to be ejected into the future. Before departure, he promises to leave regularly a letter underneath a stone on a bridge so that his friend will be informed what has changed, what has not.

Likewise it might be one idea to leave little notes, poems, underneath these houses so that people when passing by can retrieve and read them before putting them again under the little house, so that others coming after them will be able to read this.

 

Mapping the site:

 

A final question: can a banner be put up with quotes from the workshop?

 

 

 

Hatto Fischer

Athens / Berlin May 2015

 

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