Performans w lodach

• Authors: Szpakowska Małgorzata

Title variants

EN

Ice-Trapped Performance

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses Tomasz Kubikowski’s book Zjadanie psów [Dog-Eating] (Warszawa 2019), which combines the story of nineteenth-century polar expeditions – by John Ross, William Edward Parry, John Franklin, Elisha Kane and Fridtjof Nansen – with the concept of performance as “restored behaviour,” taken expertly from Richard Schechner. Excellently written, almost like a travel-adventure novel, the book presents Arctic exploration as a sequence of performances that owed their social significance to stories; without a story, getting to the pole was hardly worth the trouble, and all the above-mentioned explorers left such accounts. Kubikowski treats them as anthropological narratives, “stories of someone else’s experience”; he also reads in them what their authors were not aware of: for example, that the natives and their culture were completely invisible to the adventurers. The theoretical background of the book is rather complex, as the author has engaged with performance studies for almost twenty years, yet the book is (deliberately) written in such a way as to be enjoyed also by those who do not care for theory.

Keywords

EN

performance; Arctic expeditions; performance studies

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 4(276)
• Pages: 171-180

Contributors

author

Szpakowska Małgorzata

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

References

• Carlson, M. (2007). Performatyka wczoraj i dziś (E. Kubikowska, tłum.). Dialog, 7-8.
• Dudzik, W., Kosiński, D., Kubikowski, T., Leyko, M., & Ratajczakowa, D. (2007). Klucz do wszystkich zamków. Dialog, 7-8.
• Kubikowski, T. (2004). Reguła Nibelunga: Teatr w świetle nowych badań świadomości. Warszawa: Akademia Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza.
• Kubikowski, T. (2019). Zjadanie psów. Warszawa: Instytut Teatralny im. Z. Raszewskiego, Akademia Teatralna im. A. Zelwerowicza.
• Schechner, R. (2006). Performatyka (T. Kubikowski, tłum.). Wrocław: Ośrodek Badań Twórczości Jerzego Grotowskiego.

Identifiers

DOI

10.36744/pt.620