ABSTRACT
The author analyzes a series of art performances titled Spatial Poems, realized by mail by the Japanese artist Mieko Shiomi. He interprets events that took place between 1965 and 1975 as an early example of an artistic response to the phenomenon of globalization. Michna shows how the artist builds a collective work of art in the planetary (Spivak) dimension by juxtaposing the participants’ sensual interactions with their environment. The author reads the documentation of these events as an artist's attempt to create a tool for building understanding across and beyond official borders and perceiving the earth as a whole. Michna proposes to read Shiomi spatial poetry as a responsible utopia (Domańska) which tries to establish a way of communication between people, regardless of class, race, gender, or culture, based on multi-sensory dialogue taking place through the metaphorical language of art.
