POGRANICZE ARTYSTYCZNE JAKO PRZESTRZEŃ PAMIĘCI O WSPÓLNOCIE PIĘKNA, WARTOŚCI ORAZ SYMBOLICZNEGO UCZENIA SIĘ „BYCIA RAZEM” – WOKÓŁ TEMATÓW PRAC „ARS INTER CULTURAS”

Current issue of “Ars inter Culturas” magazine is devoted to the cultural borderland understood as space used to exchange artistic works, communicate their values to the Other, recognise similarities and differences in the works of a neighbouring nation. Art, including music and literature, can significantly help introduce the neighbour’s cultural identity, get to know their pursuits, ethos and problems connected with their existence. Thanks to the art of a different, yet geographically close, nation we can see it in a different perspective, we reduce hitherto stereotypes, we mitigate tensions, we express our readiness for dialogue. Numerous texts included in this issue have been devoted to cultural and artistic relations between Poland and Ukraine. Our common history, written in the language of the art, provides many fascinating experiences, cultural enrichment that the borderland situation entails. The diversification of aesthetic and artistic meetings, which are being described by the Polish and Ukrainian authors with the use of significant number of art phenomena in this rich cultural space, confirms our confidence in continuing these researches and implementing their results in action – in social, educational and animation projects. Additionally, the current issue will also provide us with multicultural thoughts of authors from Slovakia and Hungary, supporting the need to create scientific after-thoughts concerning the Central and Eastern European culture and art, to foster its memory and to build new growth outlooks.