{"title":"The Communitas of Mourning: Women in Black and Dah Teatar between War protest and Theater","authors":"Sandra Biberstein","doi":"10.36744/pt.838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.838","url":null,"abstract":"In wartime and post-war situations, the opposition of friend and enemy—based on national divisions—often condemns the dead “enemies” to be ungrievable. To grieve for the excluded others in such times means to break with the friend-enemy opposition. This article examines how the friend-enemy opposition is broken in the case of the actions of Women in Black and Dah Teatar in the context of the civil war in Yugoslavia. By analyzing the vigils of Žene u crnom (Women in Black) in Belgrade and the play Priča o čaju (The Story of Tea) by Dah Teatar, the author discusses the particular strategies through which grief was made possible beyond the friend-enemy opposition and how these strategies open a communitas of mourning. The term “communitas of mourning” refers to the concept of grievability, proposed by Judith Butler in Frames of War.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122719975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reading of Community","authors":"N. Seiler","doi":"10.36744/pt.822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.822","url":null,"abstract":"The thinking about the idea, forms and practices of communitas has developed a specific discourse in political philosophical writing since the 1980s. This paper retraces the ways in which Jean-Luc Nancy established a “community of writing [and] the writing of community,” how in his view community compears with philosophical writing. Taking Nancy’s discussion as a ground line, the author modulates the perspective on writing—as both text and practice—and focuses on the confrontation with community in reading. By poetologically tackling Nancy’s essay “The Confronted Community” (2001), she investigates into the text’s performing of community and the affective interaction between text and corporeality. Her reading of Nancy’s writing thus activates not only its ecstatic valences leading towards the proposed community of those who have no community; it also uncovers the aesthetic, social and political implications that emanate from Nancy’s writing in this situated reading. Therefore, this paper analytically retraces the textual micro-performances of community in writing as a performative confrontation entailed in reading.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124336465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Forms of Communities? The Constitution and Performance of Audiences in Digital Theater during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Kai Padberg","doi":"10.36744/pt.861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.861","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic plunged many theaters around the world into a temporary crisis and favored the rise of digital theater forms. This article investigates how the reception of theater changes in the digital space and, above all, how audiences as a social dimension of theatrical performances must first be constituted separately there. Based on performance analysis of the digital theater productions Homecoming and Sterben from Germany, the significance of the digital infrastructure for the assembly, performance, and action repertoires of these theater audiences is discussed. The author examines how audiences can be formed into different temporal communities in the digital space. These temporal communities are characterized by hybridity and have the potential to enable intense theatrical encounters across spatial boundaries.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116948620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Theatrical Communitas","authors":"Dorota Sajewska","doi":"10.36744/pt.846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.846","url":null,"abstract":"The term communitas, introduced into anthropological discourse by Victor Turner in the late 1960s, returned to humanist debates at the threshold of the twenty-first century by way of Roberto Esposito. Referring to Esposito’s concept of communitas, this essay brings out the anthropological tradition in thinking about the common, which Esposito had marginalized. The present author emphasized the importance of processuality and antistructural dimensions of egalitarian forms of togetherness, along with their potential to liberate human capacities of creativity. Examining the relation between munus and ludus, she shows theatricality residing immanently in the root of communitas. Focusing on the aesthetic and creative dimensions of togetherness helps in detecting multiple forms of commonality, and indicates various models of theatrical communitas. Exploring a nonnormative, transformative potential in experimental theater (Jerzy Grotowski, Sarah Kane, Ron Athey, Krzysztof Garbaczewski), she emphasizes collective, temporal, and excessive natures of theater that eschews the market-driven economy, along with the importance of a transversal communitas where the human being is only one of many actors. Some threads of the argumentation are expanded upon in a conversation with Leszek Kolankiewicz, included as an appendix.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116424534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dark Continent: «African Tales by Shakespeare» and the Experience of Transitional Community","authors":"D. Sosnowska","doi":"10.36744/pt.815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.815","url":null,"abstract":"This text is an analysis of Krzysztof Warlikowski’s 2011 production, African Tales by Shakespeare, tracing the project of community taken up in the performance. The central thesis takes this to be neither a national community nor a dispersed, intersectional coalition, as Bryce Lease has formulated the difference between Polish political and traditional theater, but rather a transitional community—unstable, unsuccessful, and rooted in the experience of political transition. The author, by invoking references to the visual arts present in the performance, points to other community projects emerging from the experience of transition while showing how, when appropriated for the purposes of performance, their meanings change radically. In the masculine, phallic, and violent world of African Tales, art and philosophy born of the experience of femininity are lost, twisted, and forgotten. Among the most important threads of analysis, however, is the way racialization and racism function in the play. From this perspective, the problematic status of the community the play establishes is most clearly seen: as a community of phantasmic, aspirational, transitional whiteness","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128646719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theater and Communitas: Introduction","authors":"Dorota Sajewska","doi":"10.36744/pt.941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.941","url":null,"abstract":"Inntroduction to the essay cluster \"Theater and Communitas.\"","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129247554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nowa rola przedmiotu w choreografiach współczesnych: Witalistyczna materialność w twórczości Aleksandry Borys","authors":"Maciej Guzy","doi":"10.36744/pt.857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.857","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł stanowi próbę poszerzenia polskiego dyskursu teatrologicznego o analizę współczesnych praktyk choreograficznych skoncentrowanych na zagadnieniu wykorzystania przedmiotu w przedstawieniach tanecznych i eksplorujących nowe sposoby rozumienia materialności. Rozważania oparte są na założeniu, że twórcy nowej choreografii postrzegają materię jako aktywny czynnik, który na różne sposoby może być włączany w procestwórczy. Autor przedstawia i interpretuje dwa projekty artystyczne Aleksandry Borys: instalację Air Mapping oraz choreografię Dancing the Dance. Prace te zestawia z teorią realizmu agencyjnego Karen Barad. Stara się wykazać, że materia w twórczości Borys może być postrzegana przez pryzmat jej procesualnego charakteru, a nie jako niezmienna podstawa rzeczywistości.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127895929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Splot czasów: Teatr, performans i odtworzenia","authors":"Dobrochna Ratajczakowa","doi":"10.36744/pt.836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.836","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł stanowi omówienie dyskusji na temat performansu i archiwum oraz relacji między nimi na podstawie polskich tłumaczeń książek Rebecki Schneider Pozostaje performans (Kraków 2020; wyd. org. Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment, Routledge 2011) i Diany Taylor Performans (Kraków 2018; wyd. org. Performance, Duke University Press 2016). Centralnym wątkiem jest refleksja nad sposobem ujęcia czasu i cielesności w koncepcji Schneider, co umożliwia uwypuklenie różnic w podejściu do ontologii performansu w pracach obu autorek.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122806718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trzydzieści ton polskiej, polskiej literatury queerowej","authors":"G. Stępniak","doi":"10.36744/pt.812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.812","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł jest recenzją książki Dezorientacje: Antologia polskiej literatury queer (Warszawa 2020). Autor omawia ideowe założenia tomu oraz jego zawartość, komentując zwłaszcza wybór fragmentów tekstów teatralnych. Zwraca uwagę na nieco anachroniczne wykorzystanie metodologii queer studies, zawężające ją do analizy modeli (homo)seksualności. Doceniając edytorski trud redaktorów i akcentując potrzebę tego typu inicjatyw w polskiej kulturze, proponuje drobne przesunięcia w podejściu do literatury mniejszościowej, które mogłyby pomóc zdekonstruować tradycyjne sposoby ustanawiania historii literatury i kultury.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115786861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existing Within and Beyond Time: «Capri—an Island of Refugees» by Krystian Lupa","authors":"Małgorzata Budzowska","doi":"10.36744/pt.667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36744/pt.667","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed article ponders upon Krystian Lupa’s Capri—an island of refugees (2019), an original production staged at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw that brings together two of Curzio Malaparte’s prose books: Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). By focusing on the parts of the production that adapt Kaputt, the article scrutinizes scenes produced by the live performance and the virtual projections in order to describe and explain how theatrical expression is enriched by such a juxtaposition. This analysis uses the theoretical frameworks of unnatural narratology (Jan Alber et al.), postdramatic durational aesthetics (Hans-Thies Lehmann), and the idea of the virtual double (Matthew Causey). The primary argument relies on the specific temporality emerging from the Lupa’s performance that enables spectators to feel existence within and beyond time. Furthermore, the study investigates the overarching idea of the performance, recognized by the strategy of foregrounding the thematic that oscillates within the problematics of human cruelty.","PeriodicalId":206887,"journal":{"name":"Pamiętnik Teatralny","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126105826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}