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Igor Stokfiszewski: Art as a Vehicle of Community

Authorial Semester 2012/2013
Series of five seminars

Seminar dates: 18 February, 18 March, 15 April, 29 April, 13 May, 17 June 2013
Cinema Room, 6pm

Seminars will be in Polish

Since 2009 I have been doing research on the community aspects of various artistic practices. I have been investigating how certain ways of practicing art influence the quality of the bonds between performers and between performers and audience, and what values they embody through how they shape and regulate the relationships between individuals within performer communities and at gatherings of artists and spectators. In other words, I have been examining a variety of artistic practices in an attempt to answer the question “How to shape an existential, spiritual and social community based on solidarity, reciprocity and care?”. The seminar series “Art as a Vehicle of Community” seeks to share the results of this research, discuss them and arrive at conclusions concerning practical questions about the shape of the community of today and the community of tomorrow – “the coming community”.

 
Igor Stokfiszewski is a literary critic, essayist, dramaturg, and member of the team of Krytyka Polityczna. As a dramaturg he has worked with director Wojtek Klemm on five productions, collaborated with Bartosz Szyd³owski on his artistic and social projects at Teatr £a¼nia Nowa in Kraków/Nowa Huta, and is dramaturg for the Warsaw edition of the international urban intervention festival Miasta Równoleg³e/Ciudades Paralelas/Parallele Städte, curated by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) and Lola Arias (Postnuclear). He also worked with Artur ¯mijewski on The Mass (Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw, 2011). Since 2009 his research has focused on the community aspects of the present activity of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Pontedera, Italy. He was on the team of the 7th Berlin Biennale, 2012, curated by Artur ¯mijewski in collaboration with Joanna Warsza and the Petersburg-based Voina collective.

Programme coordinators:
Dariusz Kosiñski: kosinski@grotowski-institute.art.pl
Sylwia Fia³kiewicz: fsylwia@grotowski-institute.art.pl
Karolina Wycisk: karolina@grotowski-institute.art.pl