Edition of “Non-accidental Encounters,” where the name refers to Andre Breton’s surrealist Manifesto.

The basic problem (theme) of this year’s meetings is the concept of Love. Love is understood not only in the context of feelings, but in many other contexts, often unnoticed and not directly resulting from the conducted research or area of scientific interest.

We transcend ourselves – not only by creating, but simply by living – in many ways. In many ways we try to make a “self-transcendence”, a self-transgression: to break free from the matrix of our ascribed condition and from our bodily shell – and to find ourselves “somewhere else”, in another state and place, to say to ourselves, like the revealing French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, that “IAM is Someone Else”.

Prof. Zbigniew Mikołejko

„Dążenie do tego, aby za wszelką cenę zedrzeć z siebie maskę i ukazać swoją „prawdziwą twarz” od mniej więcej półwiecza stało się jednym z najważniejszych nakazów współczesnego świata, jednym niemal z dogmatów dzisiejszej kultury. Stało się węzłowym i obowiązującym problemem sztuki i literatury oraz rozmaitych gałęzi wiedzy.

prof. Zbigniew Mikołejko

THE GAME is one of the most universal and capacious concepts. Concepts endowed with so many meanings, that in fact it is impossible to enumerate them. They express the most important aspects of what is simply called the human condition. And they refer to various manifestations of our everyday existence, as well as to the fields of art and literature, philosophy and entertainment, economics and religion, politics and psychology, play and science, forensics and war, computer science and magic.

Two tales of feasting, in fact, mark the path of Western faith and thought. We speak, of course, of Plato’s Feast, which to a large extent begins and stimulates the fate of our thought, and of the Last Supper, which is one of the founding acts of Christianity (but also, after all, a momentous theme of art).

Prof. Zbigniew Mikołejko

In the case of a miracle it is impossible to speak of regularities – the very presence of a miracle is a fundamental paradox – being accessible to our senses, it escapes our understanding. Instead of proposing a program of miracles for the upcoming festival, let us look at it rather as a space open to paradoxes – where the possibility of a miracle will appear, although without its guarantee.

Grzegorz Brzozowski

Establishing a new relationship between humans and nature has become one of the most important challenges of our time. In humanistic thought, it has taken the form in recent years of the question of responsibility for the Anthropocene.

Grzegorz Brzozowski