Avantgarde, theatre and all the rest

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March 19, at 1 p.m.
Powszechny Theatre
21 Legionów Street
91-069 Łódź
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Avantgarde, theatre and all the rest
The seminar will take up the issue of the avantgarde transformation from its historical origins to the present. The participants will ask how important the Internet and cyberspace are for the theatre and performance art. Social and political potential of today’s theatre will also be discussed.

With:
Annie Abrahams (living in France), a Dutch performance artist creating her projects on the Internet. (My preparation .pdf  or .html)
Grzegorz Laszuk, the leader of the formation of alternative theater Commune Otwock, nowadays – the Commune/Warsaw.
Izabella Pluta (working in Switzerland and France), a researcher on how the modern theatre is transformed under the influence of new media.
Ewa Wojtowicz, the author of books about art on the Internet and the latest artistic post-media trends.
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, a researcher on the contemporary art, in particular new media art.

In the frame of the  XXII International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, avantgarde, networked performance, theatre