In her performative lecture, Joanna Krakowska is going to demonstrate the tensions between the cinema and theatre present in the actions of 1960s New York avant-garde. According to the author, here lies the origin of contemporary visual and film practices using the theatre. Artists such as Jill Godmillow introduced re-enactment strategies into film decades earlier, arriving at a certain theatricalisation of visual practices. The author will also indicate the critical potential of artistic practices developed in the New York milieu.
Joanna Krakowska is a historian of contemporary theatre, essayist, translator and editor. She works in the editorial board of Dialog (Dialogue) and at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She specialises in the history of contemporary theatre, political theatre and drama as well as the social and moral transformations that are reflected in contemporary art. She is the author of the following research projects: “Teatr publiczny. Przedstawienia 1765–2015” (Public theatre. Representations 1765–2015) and “HyPaTia Historia Polskiego Teatru. Feministyczny projekt badawczy” (HyPaTia History of Polish theatre. A feminist research project). Her publications include: Mikołajska. Teatr i PRL (Mikołajska. The theatre and communist Poland), Warsaw: WAB, 2011; Soc i sex. Diagnozy teatralne i nieteatralne (Soc and sex. Theatrical and non-theatrical diagnoses), Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza Errata, 2009 (with Krystyna Duniec); Soc, sex i historia (Soc, sex and history), Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, 2014 (with Krystyna Duniec), and an anthology of Polish drama (A)pollonia: Twenty First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2014; with Krystyna Duniec, Joanna Klass).