„Performuj albo giń”. Przystanek Woodstock jako performans kulturowy

• Authors: Węcławiak Alicja

Title variants

EN

Perform or die. Woodstock Festival as cultural performance

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Performance is an occurrence commonly associated with theater, but that concept has a very broad context. Nowadays there are a lot of phenomena we can perceive this way, not just theatrical or quasi-theatrical. If we assume that the most important aspect in this field is „eventness”, almost everything could be called a performance. This specific type of phenomenon (also of aesthetic nature) can be divided into cultural performances, technological performances and organizational performances (source: J. McKenzie) or otherwise into cultural and language performances (source: M. Carlson). In the category of cultural performances we can enter a whole multiplicity of occurrences or events, including festivals, for which eventness, liminality, a kind of subversive or ritualization are an absolute necessity. From this point of view we can also consider our indigenous Polish Woodstock Festival, providing a lot reflections: cultural, social and also aesthetic. Assuming that this festival is a part of aesthetics of the performance, we can expect fulfillment of three functions mentioned by McKenzie: (1) self-reflection and social reflection, (2) presentation of alternatives and (3) possibility for maintenance or changes. It is worth to think about festival’s liminality and context to see how, during a couple of summer days, hundreds of thousands of people participate in one of the largest cultural performance.

Keywords

PL

Przystanek Woodstock; performans kulturowy; festiwal; liminalność; ilinx

EN

Woodstock Festival; cultural performance; festival; liminality; ilinx

• Publisher: Fundacja "dzień dobry! kolektyw kultury"
• Journal: Amor Fati
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 1(5)
• Pages: 109-123

Contributors

author

Węcławiak Alicja

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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