Writing, as a process of therapy, helps in filling up the blanks and sets up the beginning and the continuation of the framed space. From the reflection on the borderland a construction of a house comes, and hence a borderline emerges which, in turn, makes us think about homelessness. The task of the word, then, would be to extend the field, to move the borderline farther on and to follow the move of those who are thrown out of the established order and the unity imposed from above. Viktoras Bachmetjevas told us about Karl Jaspers and his theory based on the ''boundary situation”, which is the existential event that establishes philosophy. Jaspers sees this as a moment of losing points of orientation, where the illusion of human agency and control over reality dissolves. We can think about the boundary situation in the context of trauma, although it loses its positive, formative potential. A person torn from a system with clear boundaries and logic must seek a new path; identity disintegrates, returning to the strength of what is fluid and ever-changing. Within the weight of this experience lies a possibility—not the only one—because confronting a boundary can shatter reality without restoring it to life. The evening “Mystery of the Bridge,” a Krasnogruda spectacle built around the boat of refugees from Lampedusa, lent a certain reality to these circulating concepts and questions. There, the European tradition of stories about migration, otherness, and hospitality dramatically collided with events on the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the border with Belarus. The boundary situation also becomes a question of responsibility, and sometimes, it is the word alone that compels us to listen, revealing what lies beyond our field of vision.
tekst: Piotr Szroeder
