DVE055 Archives in Theatre and Performance Research (Dorota Sosnowska)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
8/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Karolína Stehlíková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is thought in two block sections: 6 March 2.10-3.35 pm and 7 March 3.50-5.25 pm; both lectures in G01, building G, Gorkeho 7.
Learning outcomes
FIRST PART: Black space and trauma ruins. How do leftovers perform?
Black space is a term used by American artist Theaster Gates in reference to places abandoned by their inhabitants due to process of gentrification. In brief moment when black people left and white bulldozers are about to destroy their traces, the artist intervene. On the other side of the world Polish artist Robert Kuśmirowski reconstructed ruins that never existed. His Traumagutstrasse was site-specific work produced for gallery belonging to Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. I would like to compare those two works and two ways of playing with leftovers to ask how they perform in those two seemingly different contexts.
SECOND PART: How to make political theater? Polish socialist realism as historiographical question
lecture will tell a story of the spectacle premiered in 1949, exactly when the totalitarian system was established in Poland, that till today is considered the only one socialist realist theatre piece that actually succeeded. It was Brygada szlifierza Karhana by a Czech author Vasko Kania depicting workers’ struggle for better results 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.
Syllabus
  • The course will be taught between March 6-8, 2018.
  • FIRST PART: Black space and trauma ruins. How do leftovers perform?
  • SECOND PART: How to make political theater? Polish socialist realism as historiographical question
  • See the Study Materials for more detailed description.
Literature
    required literature
  • Kenney, Padraic (1997) ‘Rebuilding Poland. Workers and Communist 1945–1950’, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
  • Groys, Boris (1992) ‘The Stalinist Art of Living’, trans. Charles Rougle, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Schneider, Rebecca (2011) Performing Remains. Art and war in times of theatrical reenactment, London/New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Bernstein, Robin (2009) ‘Dances with things. Material culture and the performance of race’, Social Text 101 4(27), p. 67-94.
  • Moten, Fred (2013) ‘Blackness and nothingness (mysticism in the flesh)’, The South Atlantic Quarterly 112(4), p.737-780.
  • Brown, Bill (2001) ‘Thing theory’, Critical Inquiry 1(28), p. 1-22.
  • Schneider, Rebecca (2016) ‘Theater of bone’, draft, www.academia.edu/15176788/Theatre_of_Bone_draft
Teaching methods
lecture, seminary discussion, home reading
Assessment methods
The credit will be given for 100% attendance (6 March 2.10-3.35 pm and 7 March 3.50-5.25 pm).
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: V angličtině. Pro získání kreditu je vyžadována účast na přednášce. In English.
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