17–18 June, (Thu–Fri)

Laboratory Theatre Room

17 June

10:00 am – 12:00 noon

“Grotowski nie taki” ,a session organized in collaboration with Teatr Nie-Taki Foundation:

12:00 noon – 12:30 pm Coffee break 

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Masoud Najafi Ardabili (University of Wrocław), “Grotowski in Iran,” a lecture and presentation of previously unknown footage of Grotowski’s visits to Iran and the reception of his work in this country. 

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Lunch break 

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Open seminary: “Grotowski: New Angles,” part 1

• Agata Adamiecka-Sitek (Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego)

& Weronika Szczawińska (PAN Institute of Art), a talk entitled “Embodied Myth/Somatext. Grotowski’s theatre from the perspective of gender”

• Łucja Iwanczewska (Jagiellonian University), “The Ethics of Unique Acts: Grotowski in the ethics of Jacques Lacan”
• Duncan Jamieson (University of Exeter), “From Representation to Ethics: Grotowski from the perspective of recent deconstructive thought”

18 June 

10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Open seminary: “Grotowski: New Angles”, part 2

• Igor Stokfiszewski (Krytyka Polityczna), “Art as the Vehicle of a Universal Community”
• Bartosz Frąckowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University/Krytyka Polityczna), “Grotowski-Cum-Foucault”
• Iwona E. Rusek (University of Warsaw), “Grotowski: New Angles, But What For?”

12:30 am – 1:00 pm Coffee break 

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Open seminary: “Grotowski: New Angles”, part 3

• Weronika Szczawińska (PAN Institute of Art), “Digging Deep, or Jerzy Grotowski’s Flight from History”
• Katarzyna Woźniak (Jagiellonian University), “The Word Became Flesh: Verbal dimensions in Jerzy Grotowski’s Work”

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Lunch break

5:00 pm