Culture, stupid! The Media Performances of Artur Żmijewski
Culture, stupid! The Media Performances of Artur Żmijewski

Summary/Abstract: Dziewulska’s text focuses on the media debate around Artur Żmijewski’s Mass at the Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw (premiere: 29 X 2012). The author begins with the media fuss that preceded the premiere, wondering if this spectacle was opposed to or part of the idea of the project. In her opinion, Mass is less a performance than an idea, as it fulfils its task in the very information provided. Dziewulska then contrasts the contradictory statements of the director and the reviewers on the intended and real participation of the viewers, and cites often curious reports from the debate at the theater that preceded the premiere. Finally, she considers the varied status of the word inŻmijewski’s Mass and the holy mass as such, and the intentions of Żmijewski’s art that is “exhausted with the impotence of art.”

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