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Truth
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Cycle: Reality · Performance 9 of 9
A social experiment in the form of a game at Książnica Pomorska. Participants could try searching for truth or remain observers.
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- Książnica Pomorska, Szczecin
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- Oskar Chmioła — performance
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WHAT IS TRUTH?
The performance Truth
16.12.2017, 14.00–14.30
Auditorium of the Stanisław Staszic Pomeranian Library in Szczecin
What is truth? Is it generally accepted axioms and norms, or something more? Is truth a fact, an utterance or perhaps an event? Is truth performative?
Do individual, deductive and absolute truth have anything in common?
Is there some essence inherent in every kind of truth?
Do we need to know truth for any purpose, and could we live without it?
Is it something real, or rather indefinable and unknowable.
What happens to a person (their heart and mind) who strives towards it, and what happens to such a society?
What is real and true, and what merely seems so to us?
Do the rules of the game called life bring us closer to it, move us further away, or keep us at a distance from it?
Should we strive towards it, or rather “walk in its light”?
In the performance “Truth”, a social experiment took the form of a game. Anyone interested could attempt to find truth, or simply watch.
This was the final performance in Oskar Chmioła’s Reality cycle. The undertaking was carried out through an artistic scholarship from the Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The project is being carried out through an artistic scholarship from the Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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