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<<Previous article: ZUKO and WIAS Network Research Visits program report AY 2026, vol. 1 (Assistant Professor PACHCIAREK Pawel)<\/a><\/p>\n

WIAS and ZUKO<\/a> (Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz, Germany), our partner institute, have been implementing a bilateral exchange program to foster research collaboration. Here is the second report from Assistant Professor PACHCIAREK Pawel, , the fourth researcher to utilize the program for a stay at ZUKO. In this update, he reports his research achievements during his stay at the University of Konstanz.<\/p>\n

ZUKO and WIAS Network Research Visits program report AY 2026, vol. 2 (Assistant Professor PACHCIAREK Pawel)<\/h5>\n

My three-month research stay at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, allowed me to consolidate the theoretical framework of my current research on Yayoi Kusama\u2019s literary works in relation to performance, protest, and socially engaged art. Over the course of the fellowship, the central argument of my current manuscript gradually crystallized. Rather than changing the direction of the project, the stay helped me define its central questions more precisely and establish a clearer structure for the next stage of the research.<\/p>\n

The principal outcome of the stay has been the consolidation of an argument that treats Kusama\u2019s literary works not as interpretations of her performances, but as another site in which performative strategies continue through language. Her novels and poetry are therefore not secondary commentaries on her visual art. They reformulate questions first articulated through bodily action, public intervention, repetition, and self-erasure within the different conditions of literary form. This argument now provides the basis for the article I am preparing, while the work completed in Konstanz has also opened several possible directions for future publications on literature, performance, and political aesthetics.<\/p>\n

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A major strength of the Zukunftskolleg is its active international academic network. Although Konstanz is a relatively small university town, the institute brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. Through regular participation in the Zukunftskolleg Jour Fixe, as well as workshops, seminars, and lectures, I was able to discuss my research in a setting where international exchange was part of everyday academic work rather than limited to occasional conferences.<\/p>\n

Presenting the project to scholars working in different disciplinary traditions repeatedly required me to reconsider how its central argument should be formulated. Discussions with literary scholars, art historians, philosophers, sociologists, and researchers from other fields helped me distinguish between questions specific to Kusama\u2019s practice and those that address broader issues concerning literature, performance, political form, and socially engaged art. During the fellowship, I exchanged ideas with researchers affiliated with institutions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Finland, Poland, and other parts of Europe. These conversations were particularly useful in clarifying the theoretical scope of the project without losing the specificity of its primary materials.<\/p>\n\n\t\t