2195 KB29 KB197820252019Michelson, Sethštevilka:3letnik:42str. 55-67ISSN:0351-1189COBISSID:70736738URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-2B5KOS83enSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnostPrimerjalna književnostfenomenologijahibridnostimanencaslovenska književnostslovenska poezijaTaufer, VenoWaterlings among us| poetry, intractability, and the possibilities of democratic politics|When the Slovenian poet Veno Taufer endeavors in his ekphrastic book of poetry Vodenjaki (1986; Waterlings, 2000) to explore the work of Neolithic sculptors along the Danube River in Lepenski Vir, he excavates and animates for his readership the crucial figure of the Waterling. Carved artfully from stone some 9,000 years ago, these statues, termed "Waterlings" by Taufer, represent hybrid humanoid figures. This hybridity is fundamentally important to the statues because it imbues them with their aesthetic vitality. That is, their affective energy as made material objects derives from the tension between the distinct figurative forms combining to comprise each statue. More deeply, that carefully crafted hybridity also signals the makers% understanding of the importance of art to mind. These physical renderings of hybridity inspire metaphysical reflection on it. They compel the audience to consider the limits of form(s) and the power of artifice, with each statue encouraging its viewer to reckon how she, too, is a hybrid creature in and of a hybrid world. In other words, the Waterling becomes a metonym for a phenomenology, which this article exploresKo slovenski pesnik Veno Taufer v svoji ekfrastični pesniški zbirki Vodenjaki (1986; Waterlings, 2000) raziskuje dela neolitskih kiparjev v Lepenskem Viru ob reki Donavi, za svoje bralstvo izkoplje in animira ključno figuro Vodenjaka. Ti umetniško izklesani kipi, ki jih je Taufer poimenoval "Vodenjaki", predstavljajo hibridne humanoidne figure. Hibridnost je za kipe bistvena, saj jih prežame z estetsko vitalnostjo. To pomeni, da afektivna energija kipov kot ustvarjenih materialnih predmetov izhaja iz napetosti med različnimi figurativnimi oblikami, ki sestavljajo vsak kip. Še več, skrbno izdelana hibridnost prav tako nakazuje ustvarjalčevo razumevanje pomena umetnosti za um. Te fizične upodobitve hibridnosti navdihujejo metafizično razmišljanje o njej. Občinstvo prisilijo, naj razmisli o mejah oblik(e) in moči umetnosti, saj vsak kip spodbudi svojo gledalko, naj premisli, kako je tudi ona hibridno bitje v hibridnem svetu. Z drugimi besedami, Vodenjak postane metonimija za fenomenologijo, ki jo raziskuje ta članekTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost