Stereotypical, toxic, vulnerable. What is masculinity like today and how is it changing? What are its narratives and social roles? And do we even want to talk about it?
An attempt to answer these questions is "The Lumberjack"-a project whose idea is to examine various aspects of masculinity in an era of crisis and the return of political and cultural patterns. Artistic works and projects visualize post-masculinity in a transhumanist form, referencing masculine mythologies and confronting the long-standing stereotypes that date back to the social norms of the 19th century. They reveal a new relationship to nature and a "dark ecology," a discussion of the legacy of postcolonial practices, a broad spectrum of gender identities, and stories of power, conquest, and militarism.
The starting point for these narratives is the era of Wilhelm II Hohenzollern (1859-1941), the builder of the Imperial Castle in Poznań, sometimes referred to as the "triumph of masculinity." It also tells the personal story of the monarch - a disabled boy raised at the Prussian court who became an egotistical ruler fueled by colonial complexes and one of the "godfathers" of the Great War. After the war and Germany's defeat, he was forced to abdicate and leave the Reich. He ended up politically and morally bankrupt on the Doorn estate in the northern Netherlands. There, Wilhelm II was nicknamed the "Woodcutter of Doorn" because he personally cut down trees with an axe in the surrounding forests. Despite the weakness of his left hand, he took logging very seriously - as the last bastion of his masculinity and agency. In 1929, he had cut down 20,000 trees. The history and figure of the emperor are here a "skeleton in the closet," an idea of ​​a patriarchal world that, though anachronistic and discredited, keeps emerging, returning in new wars and political and social orders. This provides an important context for the concepts of all the artists participating in the project. Their works, drawing on their life and artistic experience, address the contemporary reinterpretation of masculinity and the reception of its meaning.
Artists: Ernest Borowski, Olaf Brzeski, Krystian Daszkowski, Arti Grabowski, Krzysztof Maniak, Dorota Nieznalska, Karol Radziszewski, Sonia Rammer, Aleksandra Ska, Magda Starska, Iza Tarasewicz, Sławomir Toman, Honza Zamojski
Curator: Przemysław Jędrowski

Open: Monday - Sunday, 12 noon - 8pm

For more, see: Zamek Culture Center website (in Polish)

Tickets: Bilety24, Zamek Culture Center ticket office

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