Widz. Ćwiczenia z uważności
The spectator. Exercises in attention

Summary/Abstract: In his accout of this year's edition of Malta Festival Poznań (17-28 Jun 2016), Tomasz Kowalski describes Extreme Voices by Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker, The Extra People by Ant Hampton, Wasteland prepared by Compagnie Dakar and Lotte van den Berg, the diptych Sculpting Fear by Julian Hetzel and the project Building Conversation by Lotte van den Berg. Kowalski refers to the main theme of the festival (proposed by its curator, Lotte van den Berg) – the “paradox of the spectator”. He points out that the invited artists problematise the question of being a theatre spectator as well as an observer of society. The festival events activate the audience, force them to act, give them a status that is difficult to define or drown them in feelings of overwhelming helplessness and passivity.

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