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| Slowacki and Grotowski: Recontextualisations |
Edited by: Dariusz Kosinski and Wanda Swiatkowska Date: November 2010 ISBN: 978-83-61835-40-0 Dimensions: 165x238 mm Paperback: 164 pages Price: 8 Euro Fragment of the book:  This publication was funded by the Jagiellonian University. The links between Slowacki and Grotowski are deeper and more significant than just the fact of Grotowski drawing on Slowacki’s writing. What these artists certainly have in common is the extraordinary dynamics of their artistic attitudes which combined “life” and “art”. Both Slowacki and Grotowski were engaged in a constant quest, none of them satisfied with what they had already created. Both did not contend themselves with the forms and methods they had developed, uncompromisingly destroying these forms when they found them to be dead. Both transformed their fields in extremely profound and far-reaching ways. Finally, though officially recognized, both were relegated to the sidelines, and their work met with derision, accusations of unleashing dark forces and of suspect explorations at the interface of art and religion. In December 2009 the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, and the Drama Department at the Faculty of Polish Studies of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, organised a two-day conference, “‘He broke my inner bones’. Slowacki and Grotowski: Recontextualisations”, which reflected this belief in the existence of numerous and strong links between Slowacki and Grotowski, and provided an opportunity to explore them. (Dariusz Kosinski) |
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