SEMINAR CITY/WORK
The seminar is a meeting of Polish and Norwegian researchers and practitioners who specialize in activities in public and extra-theatrical spaces. Speeches, combined with presentations of unique footage will discuss issues related both to the history of actions performed on streets (especially in the context of artistic opposition manifestos of Polish student theatre – one of the guests will be Jolanta Krukowska of the legendary Warsaw-based Teatr Akademia Ruchu) and the multiplicity of modern performing currents being accomplished now in Europe and in the world ( in reflection of Rickard Borgström, a curator of international performing arts festivals, and Knut Ove Arntzen, a Norwegian writer, art critic, and a lecturer at the University of Bergen) . The Szczecin’s context will be also very strongly marked at the seminar – Helena Freino (Szczecin-based architect and city planner), besides her statement within the context of the stationary seminar will also lead a mobile lecture combined with sightseeing of non-obvious areas of the city.
EXPERTS:
EngD ARCH HELENA FREINO
author: Gerhard Meighörner
An architect and city planner; for many years he has been combining academic duties of a teacher at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin with her creative professional work. She authored dozens of urban planning documents, including local zoning plans, many studies and elaborations, a number of expert opinions and co-reports, dozens of national publications and several foreign ones. The judge in the urban and architectural contests and in the contest for the Model Projects of Polish-German Cooperation. She participated in many national and international conferences and congresses (Copenhagen 1991, Cape Town 1993, Budapest 1996, Helsinki 2000, Utrecht 2002, Lisbon 2003, Geneva 2004, Berlin 2005, Bilbao 2005, Antwerp 2007, Dalian 2008, Porto 2009). She actively participates in professional associations and other bodies for the spatial management; among others as a member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners ISOCARP, the Society of Polish Town Planners, urban and architectural committees, and the Voivodeship Council for the Protection of Monuments.
JOLANTA KRUKOWSKA
In the early 1970s she was involved in the Pantomime Theatre of the “Stodoła” Students’ Club, led by Marek Gołębiewski in the spirit of Marcel Marceau’s tradition. She has been participating in activities of the Akademia Ruchu Theatre (under the artistic direction of Wojciech Krukowski) since 1972. The Akademia Ruchu Theatre has been primarily active on the border between of theater, visual arts, performance art and film. In addition, since 1986, she has been leading creative workshops focused on body awareness and actor’s physical training, organized in Poland and abroad. Her performances have been presented in Poland and at international festivals in the USA, England, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
RICKARD BORGSTRÖM
Curator,currently he is interested in how toproduce intimacy within the performance situation. It is a concretephysical choreographical research, with Robert Steijn, Pieter Ampe andWojciech Kosma, on the backdrop of the immaterial economies impact onour bodies. Furthermore he explores the melancholic condition and itssymptoms in the artistic institution. In Tbilisi, Georgia in thespring of 2013, he explores modes of creation trough the spectrum ofnew materialism. Borgström lives and works in Berlin, Sibbo. He is an educated curatorat Bergen ArtAcademy. He has also studied at the Swedish UniversityCollege for Film and at Stockholm University. In recent years he hasmainly worked in Norway, where he has been engaged as a curator atTeaterhuset Avant Garden, Bastard-International Performance ArtFestival,Lofoten International Art Festival. For the Art CouncilNorway he curated the congress “WE TRY TO PLAN IT SO PERFECTLY”. AtThe Art Space SINNE, Helsinki he curated the acclaimed exhibition”2.11 10.11 24.11 26.11 – An exhibition in four acts” with new worksfrom Franco Bifo Berardi, Kosma, Smebye and Steijn. Between 2011 and2012 he had the artistic responsibility for the performing art sectionat INKONST, Malmö. Over the years he has regularly present work fromthe following scholars; Knut- Ove Artnzen, Franco Bifo Berardi, MaritaMukkonen and artists: Lara Almarcegui, Daniel AlmgrenRecén, PieterAmpe, Tarek Atoui, Anna Maria Karvonen, Clément Layes, HansRosenström, Anders Smebye, Rodrigo Sorbazo, Robert Steijn.
KNUT OVE ARNTZEN
Knut Ove Arntzen is a Norwegian writer, theatre reviewer and professor in Theatre Studies at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen. Arntzen has published numerous articles and books and is known especially for his work with the newer forms of the performing arts, especially in relation to the concepts of equality and visual dramaturgy. Arntzen also has a past as a theatre critic for Arbeiderbladet and has been in the function of a scientific consultant to the Bergen International Theatre.
He has been a visiting professor at different universities, like in Kaunas, Lithuania, Antwerpen-Wilrijk and Frankfurt am Main, Belgium and Germany. He has participated in many international conferences, like the Small is Beautiful, University of Glasgow, 1990, Active Pooling: New Theatre´s World Perfect, Amsterdam, 1993, and European Theatre Towards Year 2000, Copenhagen, 1994. He has also given seminars and worked as a consultant with Les 20 jours du Théâtre à Risque in Montreal, Canada, 1994-95. He has published a series of articles analyzing development in the scope of a visual kind of dramaturgy and post-mainstream, and otherwise with regard to new theatre development he has cooperated in seminars at the Eurokaz festival with Gordana Vnuk.
In 1997 and 1998 he has attended conferences about new theatre and theatre research such as the Vision Zukunft # 1 – Theater 2010 at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, and giving papers at the different research conferences like in Puebla-Cholula, Mexico, 1997 and Johannesburg, South Africa and Canterbury, UK in 1998. In 1999 he he also presented Baktruppen at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, China and gave several lectures about new theatre developments, post-mainstream and site specific/ambient theatre in Germany, Austria and Finland like the upgrade+3, Braunschweig, Off limits, Dortmund, 1999 and 2001, as well as the Helsinki Acts and cultural studies conferences of the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies (INST), at different occasions.