Browsing by Author "Dobrowolski, Piotr"

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    Tadeusz Kantor i iluzja powtórzenia
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2007) Dobrowolski, Piotr
    The article deals with a category of repetition. This category is used as an artistic technique by Tadeusz Kantor in his unique theatre performances. The author analyzes an aesthetics' agenda of its practical use. The category is shown in a philosophical perspective of Soren Kierkegaard's, Cilles Deleuze's and Henri Bergson's writings. Cricot 2 theatre late performances (called Theatre of the Memory) were repeating Kantor's personal past and his family's history by re-playing it onstage. An artistic attempt was about to form actors' gestures and activities in a shape of one's memories. A problem, that a director had to deal with was connected with a deformation and a blur of remembered pictures. Each one of these faint pictures was under an influence of passing time and experiences that came with it. Another kind of distortion was made by actors, that were unable to embody the people from the past. Kantor's artistic imagination could make a single picture that was taken from the past (e.g. as a photograph) alive. Memory of the artist, prompted by a prosthetic celluloid device was reawakening to alternative existences of the people that have passed by. Theatre inspired the repetition that introduced a difference to an original. Continuation of one's life that was retaken leads to a development of a repeated gesture and an object that opens a new field of its meaning. Infinite repetition approaches its infinite forms to an idealistic idea of a subject, a gesture, an activity.
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    Teatralne wojny z kontrolą medialną
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2007) Dobrowolski, Piotr
    The title of this essay plays on words with a title of Noam Chomsky's book Media ControI and with a term War on Terror, both connected by exploring features of 'mediality' (media-reality). The author's interest lays where theatre and media clash, giving friction of potentials that is productive by differencing 'reality' and the media. He attempts to retrace the aesthetic interpretation of the mass media relationship used in theatre, starting from the similar narratives that they both employ (basing on Polish critical reception of in-yer-face theatre). Afterward he moves to a place, where the faith in an image showed onstage is undermining, to the position that counterbalances the trust placed in an onscreen, mass media reality (exploring a practice of The Wooster Group). In the conclusion appears that theatre enlarges a distance to its construct, in an opposition to the media. It is authorized to expose its own conventionality: the stage never tries to make an uncritical illusion of reality, theatre wants to set its audience free to interpret what they see; these facts evoke a natural war between theatre and the mass media.