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2023 | 72 | 4(287) | 11-31

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Towards a Radically Relational Post-Grotowskian Performance Paradigm

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Ku radykalnie relacyjnemu paradygmatowi performatywności

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Jerzy Grotowski zatytułował swój cykl wykładów w College de France La „lignée organique" au théâtre et dans le rituel („Linia organiczna” teatrze i rytuale). Autorka, która dokumentowała te ostatnie publiczne wystąpienia, stawia tezę, że organiczność stanowi linię łączącą teatralne i postteatralne badania Grotowskiego. Odwołuje się do tych wykładów i do własnego treningu opartego na praktykach Grotowskiego, w tym do pracy z Reną Mirecką, a także do współpracy badawczej z rdzennymi artystami i badaczami z Turtle Island (Ameryka Północna), między innymi z Floydem Favelem, który praktykował z Grotowskim i z Mirecką. Autorka wskazuje, że w różnorodnych tradycyjnych praktykach kulturowych, których rolą jest wzmacnianie, przywracanie i podtrzymywanie równowagi między ludzkimi i nie-ludzkimi formami życia, organiczność jest rozumiana jako żywa siła nadająca procesom performatywnym energię, moc i skuteczność. Post-Grotowski paradygmat performatywności zaproponowany przez autorkę opiera się na nieantropocentrycznej perspektywie inspirowanej ekologicznym i duchowym wymiarem relacyjności podkreślanym przez kilka pokoleń rdzennych badaczy. Autorka twierdzi, że taka zmiana paradygmatu, która rzuca wyzwanie praktykom artystycznym gloryfikującym ludzką kreatywność, może stanowić realną alternatywę dla dominacji (eurocentrycznych) nowomaterialistycznych i posthumanistycznych teorii nie-ludzkiej sprawczości.
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Jerzy Grotowski chose to name his College de France lecture series La „lignee organique” au theatre et dans le rituel (The „Organic Lineage” in Theatre and Ritual), and the author, who attended and documented these final public talks, contends in this article that organicity constitutes a through-line connecting Grotowski’s theatrical and post-theatrical research. The author draws from these talks, as well as from her Grotowski-based training, including her work with Rena Mirecka, and her research collaborations with Indigenous artists and scholars from Turtle Island (North America), including Floyd Favel, who worked with both Grotowski and Mirecka. The author points out that in diverse traditional cultural practices whose role it is to enhance, restore, and sustain balance between human and non-human forms of life, organicity is understood as a living force endowing performative processes with energy, power, and efficacy. The post-Grotowskian performance paradigm envisioned by the author hinges upon a non-anthropocentric perspective informed by the ecological and spiritual dimensions of relationality articulated by several generations of Indigenous scholars. She contends that such a paradigm shift, which challenges artistic practices glorifying human creative agency, can provide a viable alternative to the dominance of (Eurocentric) new materialist/posthumanist theories of non-human agency.

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72

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11-31

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2023

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  • University of British Columbia

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Publication order reference

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Biblioteka Nauki
26731710

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