Nov 7, 2024

Wind phone booth Warsaw

To say goodbye

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Art & culture
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Relaxing
"Telephone in the wind, located centrally in Jazdów near the German and French embassies, is a place where you can symbolically talk to the ones that have gone."

Telefon na wietrze (English: telephone in the wind) is an installation by Katarzyna Boni, a Polish writer and journalist. Boni spent a lot of time in Japan and Asia and got to know the culture of remembrance, notably after the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

After returning to Poland, she led workshops called "warsztaty umierania", which would translate into English as "workshops on dying". According to Boni, "It is a time when participants rediscover the joy of life. During the workshop, participants listen to the story of a dying man and as time progresses, they symbolically part with important things, dreams, and people. This simulation, based on storytelling, allows us to experience loss in safe conditions and to understand what is important for each of us in life."

Telephone in the wind, located centrally in Jazdów near the German and French embassies, is a place where you can symbolically talk to the ones that have gone. In the booth, there is a telephone (with no connection) and a memorial book. Whatever helps!

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Jazdów 7/8

PLN

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