Using Archives in Theatre and Performance
Research
Dr. Dorota Sosnowska
(Instytut Kultury Polskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Tue, 6 March 2018 2.10-3.35 pm, and Wed, 7 March 3.50-5.25 pm
Brno, Gorkého 7, building G, room G 01
In the first part of her course, Dorota Sosnowska is going to
introduce the term ‘black space’ used by American artist
Theaster Gates in reference to places abandoned by their
inhabitants due to process of gentrification. The site-specific
work Traumagutstrasse produced by Polish artist Robert
Kuśmirowski will be compared with that of Gates. In the
second part, she will tell a story of the production of Brygada
szlifierza Karhana (1949) by a Czech author Vasko Kania
depicting workers’ struggle in the tractors’ factory. It was
produced in New Theatre in Łódź by a group of young, leftist
actors who believed in political efficacy of theatre and wanted
it to become a tool of establishing new, better social order.
Dorota Sosnowska (1982) is an Assistant Professor in the Section for Theatre and Performance,
and a cultural theorist interested in theatre and performance. Between 2006 and 2008 she was
a member of Culture Animation specialization team. Her dissertation reflected on the history of
Polish theatre in the 20th century, especially between 1945 and 1989. Currently, her academic
work is devoted to issues of source, archive, documentation and media in theatre and
performance studies.
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