{"id":1057,"date":"2025-02-08T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2025-05-09T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:23:40","slug":"counter-intuitive-peacebuilding-an-encounter-with-artist-daniel-rycharski-in-rural-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/2025\/02\/08\/counter-intuitive-peacebuilding-an-encounter-with-artist-daniel-rycharski-in-rural-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-intuitive Peacebuilding: An Encounter with Artist Daniel Rycharski in Rural Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2024, J\u00f6rg Scheller met Rycharski in his home town of Sierpc and interviewed him. The artist, who is openly gay and an activist for queer rights, but also a devout Christian, lives and works in rural Poland amidst the electorate of Poland&#8217;s national conservative PiS party. Through long-term cooperation with the local population, especially farmers, Rycharski wants to bring about lasting change in society instead of relying on short-breathed agonistic populism or media outrage. In his February column in the <em>Stuttgarter Zeitung<\/em>, J\u00f6rg Scheller presented Rycharski&#8217;s approach as a promising example of peacebuilding through art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de\/inhalt.polarisierung-im-wahlkampf-raus-aus-dem-kulturkampf.c6388f5a-e6bc-41e8-9478-86e28aebe8e0.html\">Link to the column<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/files\/2025\/03\/Mit-Daniel-Rycharski-2024-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daniel Rycharski (right) and J\u00f6rg Scheller in Sierpc, Poland, 2024 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, J\u00f6rg Scheller met Rycharski in his home town of Sierpc and interviewed him. The artist, who is openly gay and an activist for queer rights, but also a devout Christian, lives and works in rural Poland amidst the electorate of Poland&#8217;s national conservative PiS party. Through long-term cooperation with the local population, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,37],"tags":[45,49,47],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poland","category-publications","tag-daniel-rycharski","tag-queer-rights","tag-rural-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/smallpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}