Individual and Community Crises in a Pandemic: The Social Theater of Ambulatory Care

• Authors: Kułakowska Katarzyna , Kalinowska Katarzyna , Drygas Olga , Bargielski Michał

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Individual and Community Crises in a Pandemic: The Social Theater of Ambulatory Care

Abstracts

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This article offers a preliminary diagnosis of Polish social theaters with regard to the crises of the individual and the community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The interpretive framework is Lidia Zamkow’s concept of the theater of ambulatory care, which allows us to locate the activity of social theaters in the context of Michel de Certeau’s tactics and Jack Halberstam’s low theories. The theater of ambulatory care recognizes the needs of individuals and communities in a pandemic crisis and reacts to them in different ways. We distinguish and describe three ideal types of diagnoses and the resulting treatments that theaters of ambulatory care use in a pandemic: therapy, conjuring, and revolution. The article is based on materials collected during two studies: a funded research project on the anthropological and social activity of the Węgajty Theater, carried out at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a survey among theater staff during the pandemic, initiated by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute in Warsaw.

Keywords

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social theater; pandemic; crisis; individual; sociaty; community; low theory; theater of ambulatory care

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4(276)
• Pages: 63-84

Contributors

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Kułakowska Katarzyna

• Instytut Sztuki, Polska Akademia Nauk

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Kalinowska Katarzyna

• Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych

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Drygas Olga

• Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Bargielski Michał

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Identifiers

DOI

10.36744/pt.455