One world, many peoples. Towards art for multiculturalism

作者：Katarzyna Niziołek · 发表于：Pogranicze Studia Społeczne · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.15290/pss.2011.18.08 · 研究领域：Art Education and Development

A number of contemporary artists focus their efforts on facilitation of dialog between diverse cultural groups or communities, aim at unfolding the social dynamics of otherness, or try to challenge stereotypes that many an intergroup relation is influenced with.Paweł Althamer and his neighbor collaborates -all dressed in golden jumpsuits, modeled as aliens -set out on a journey to visit the Dogon people in West Africa to experience an intercultural encounter in its most basic form 2 .The well-known street artist Banksy painted cracking holes in the West Bank Barrier, the wall separating Israel and Palestinian territories, and filled those holes with images of blue skies, golden-sand beaches, and merry children 3 .Rafał Betlejewski in a public project "I Miss You, Jew!" mobilized citizens of towns and cities across Poland to take collective photographs in places where the pre-war Jewish communi-1 The part of the title in italics is a paraphrase of the "one world, one people" slogan, connected The part of the title in italics is a paraphrase of the "one world, one people" slogan, connected to the peace movement.Among other appearances, the slogan was imprinted on the vinyl edition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's single "(Just Like) Starting Over/ Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" (1980) -in the form of an inscription on the inner part of the record.2