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“Federal Emergency Programme” by the Centre for Political Beauty as an Example of the Performance of Multidirectional Memory
Full text linkThe article highlights the activities of the Centre for Political Beauty), a Berlin-based collective operating on the border of art and activism. The author maps the artistic strategies of the creators, discusses their inspirations and general assumptions of the collective. A significant part of the text is devoted to an extensive analysis of Federal Emergency Programme (2014), a public intervention whose starting point was an attempt to rewrite the historical Kindertransport rescue operation to the socio-political realities shaped by the conflict in Syria. Using the theory of reconstruction and the Michael Rothberg’s theory of multidirectional memory, the author refers to this project – and other similarly structured actions – as “performances of multidirectional memory”, which allows her to point out how the highly polarizing the public, artistic-activist campaigns of Centre for Political Beauty create scenarios of political alternatives in which different experiences of extreme violence are not prioritized
Reconfigurations of masculinity in recent Polish theatre
Full text linkBased on selected performances (including Autobiografia na wszelki wypadek [Autobiography just in case] by Michał Buszewicz, Woyzeck by Grzegorz Jaremko, Chcieliśmy porozmawiać o męskości, ale zostaliśmy przyjaciółmi [We wanted to talk about masculinity, but we became friends] by the Grupa Performatywna Chłopaki, Bromance by Michał Przybyła and Dominik Więcek, Halka by Anna Smolar and Ojcowie [Fathers] by Błażej Biegasiewicz), the author analyses transformations in the ways of representing masculinities in recent Polish theatre. In her opinion, it has been possible for the past few years to notice both a marked increase in interest in thematising male emotionality, fragility, caring, tenderness or intimacy in Polish theatre and a radicalisation of angry patriarchal masculinity, especially among those who reject the perspectives of institutional criticism or the #metoo movement. In this article, however, the author focuses solely on outlining the historical conditions that constituted patriarchal masculinity with all its qualities and on analysing feminist-formed masculinities in Polish theatre using methodologies developed by feminist theorists (bell hooks and Karla Elliott) and by researchers associated with the field of critical studies of men and masculinities (Michael Kimmel, Raewyn Connell, Jason Wilson, Erik Anderson and Paco Abril)
Reconfigurations of masculinity in recent Polish theatre
Full text linkBased on selected performances (including "Autobiografia na wszelki wypadek" ["Autobiography just in case"] by Michał Buszewicz, "Woyzeck" by Grzegorz Jaremko, "Chcieliśmy porozmawiać o męskości, ale zostaliśmy przyjaciółmi" ["We wanted to talk about masculinity, but we became friends"] by the Grupa Performatywna Chłopaki, "Bromance" by Michał Przybyła and Dominik Więcek, "Halka" by Anna Smolar and "Ojcowie" ["Fathers"] by Błażej Biegasiewicz), the author analyses transformations in the ways of representing masculinities in recent Polish theatre. In her opinion, it has been possible for the past few years to notice both a marked increase in interest in thematising male emotionality, fragility, caring, tenderness or intimacy in Polish theatre and a radicalisation of angry patriarchal masculinity, especially among those who reject the perspectives of institutional criticism or the #metoo movement. In this article, however, the author focuses solely on outlining the historical conditions that constituted patriarchal masculinity with all its qualities and on analysing feminist-formed masculinities in Polish theatre using methodologies developed by feminist theorists (bell hooks and Karla Elliott) and by researchers associated with the field of critical studies of men and masculinities (Michael Kimmel, Raewyn Connell, Jason Wilson, Erik Anderson and Paco Abril)
The audience in virtual reality
Full text linkThe author outlines the development horizon for virtual reality and offers a multilevel analysis of "Nietota", the first Polish production using virtual reality, staged in a repertory theatre by Krzysztof Garbaczewski in collaboration with the artistic collective Dream Adoption Society. Historical and theoretical reflections are complemented by a report of the empirical studies conducted in February 2019 at the Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw and an analysis of the reviews of that performance. The study group was comprised of spectators who attended "Nietota" then and volunteered to fill in the questionnaire
On the agency of dead bodies
Full text linkStreszcz. ang.The article analyses one of the projects of the Center for Political Beauty - "The Dead Are Coming" (2015). This operation was a direct response to the disgraceful practices of storing the dead bodies of refugees in plastic garbage bags in a Sicilian hospital and to burial procedures for forced migrants that were deviating from the minimum standards. The collective exhumed the mass grave, carried out the identification of the corpses, and then transported the two dead to Berlin, where they prepared burials to which politicians were invited. The author briefly introduces the activities of the German group, reconstructs the progress of this intervention and analyses the critical discourse that has developed around this project. She also uses Alfred Gell's theory of agency to establish a new way of thinking about this action - one that takes into account the agency of dead bodies and problematises their necro-subjectivity
Affective Boundaries and Unsavoury Political Art: «The First Fall of the European Wall» by the Center for Political Beauty
Full text linkArtykuł stanowi analizę skandalu, jaki w niemieckiej sferze publicznej wywołała interwencja Centrum Politycznego Piękna zatytułowana Pierwszy upadek europejskiego muru (2014). Kampania przygotowana tuż przed dwudziestą piątą rocznicą upadku muru berlińskiego miała na celu obnażenie hipokryzji niemieckich polityków, którzy jednocześnie świętują likwidację starych granic i współfinansują powstawanie nowych. Autorka przedstawia przebieg tej artywistycznej akcji i analizuje jej negatywną recepcję, w szczególności komentarze grupy odbiorczej, którą określa mianem publiczności zniesmaczonej. W analizie wykorzystano koncepcje pamięci rywalizacyjnej i wielokierunkowej (Michael Rothberg), teorię afektów (Sara Ahmed) i teorię wstrętu (Winfried Menninghaus), by pokazać, w jaki sposób ukonstytuowała się publiczność deprecjonująca projekt za pomocą kategorii smaku i uruchamiająca różne mechanizmy obronne służące blokowaniu dyskusji nad politycznymi problemami, na które zwrócili uwagę opinii publicznej artyści.This article analyzes the scandal caused in the German public sphere by the Center for Political Beauty’s intervention The First Fall of the European Wall (2014). Prepared just before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the campaign aimed to expose the hypocrisy of German politicians, who celebrated the dismantling of old borders and at the same time co-financed the emergence of new ones. The author presents the course of this artivist action and analyzes its negative reception, focusing on comments from a group of recipients which she categorizes as “disgusted audience.” The analysis draws on the concepts of competitive and multidirectional memory (Michael Rothberg), affect theory (Sara Ahmed), and theory of disgust (Winfried Menninghaus) to show how an audience constituted itself to depreciate the project based on the category of taste and to activate various defense mechanisms blocking the discussion about political issues brought to public attention by the artists
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Warzywko
No full textInstytut Sztuk Performatywnych w Warszawie Po prostu reżyseria i adaptacja: Weronika Szczawińska, tekst: Piotr Wawer senior, koncepcja: Weronika Szczawińska, Łukasz Stawarczyk, Piotr Wawer sen., kostiumy i przestrzeń: Marta Szypulska, nagranie głosu: Piotr Wawer jr, premiera: Komuna// Warszawa, 24 października 201
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