“Our World Is Ruled by Insensitivity”: The #MeToo Movement and Transformation

• Authors: Agata Adamiecka-Sitek

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes the transformational potential of the #MeToo movement in terms of personal experience, institutional and social transformations, looking first of all at the dynamics the movement has created in theatre in Poland and around the world. The author unveils the systemic dimension of violence encoded in invisible and standardized relations of domination and subordination, inscribed in the two models which are still very common in Polish theatre: the “master and apprentice” model defining the position of a director and the “feudal” model visible in institutional relations. Looking at the Gardzienice case and the reactions of the public to the testimonies exposing violence, the author also mentions examples of institutional and systemic reactions to similar situations in British and Belgian theatre. In this way, she outlines possible directions for action in Polish theatre. She asks questions about the transformative and emancipatory potential of the #MeToo movement, emphasizing the necessity to consider an intersectional perspective, to build alliances and to practice promiscuous care.

Keywords

EN

#MeToo; discrimination; intersectionality; Gardzienice; institutional critique

• Publisher: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
• Year: 2021
• Issue: English Issue 2021
• Pages: 4-41

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Agata Adamiecka-Sitek

• Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Theatre Art in Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000181312679

translator

Mirosław Rusek

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34762/8dbc-jk75

Biblioteka Nauki

1955947