Joanna
Osińska

The book “In the Procession of Fear” comprises eight subject areas, each presenting a separate story in the spirit of a play of imagination. The long-lasting process of its creation, depicted in the minor degree, motivated me to settle accounts with my own mentality, and at the same time ponder the repetitiveness of slogans and gestures in the public space. In eight sections called “Identity”, “Emulation Prestige Norm”, “The Other”, “Damnation”, “Atonement”, “Transgression”, “Pain as a Currency”, “Ending”, under the guise of the protagonist narrator, I discuss the things that apply to me directly and cannot be ignored as merely somebody else’s affliction. To what degree can one trust oneself, one’s judgements, and emotions among the remains at the landfill of history?

The book is complemented with the multimedia part of the degree piece, describing life in a housing complex. “Block” is a story of voyeurism, subjectivity of perception, the tendency to form judgements based on snippets of other people’s lives taken out of context.