Cracking the Field of Linguistic Recognition: On the Cultural Mobility of Ukrainian Drama in Poland after 24 February 2022
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This article undertakes to inscribe considerations on the cultural mobility of Ukrainian drama and theater in Poland after 24th February 2022 into research on theater multilingualism and multiethnicity in the context of contemporary migration. It focuses on the peformative strategies of Ukrainian dramatic texts presented in Poland under the extraordinary circumstances resulting from Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine. The author analyzes selected performative readings of dramas translated into Polish, as well as theater projects carried out in Poland by Ukrainian artists, in order to explore the various architectures of intercultural encounter involved in artistic activities and enhancement of the agency of Ukrainian incomers, also through the empowerment of their language. As the most important element of the architecture of intercultural encounter she identifies various strategies of cracking the field of linguistic recognition, which situates phenomena discussed in the Polish context within the broader framework of research on the performativity of language and its corporeal materiality, as well as the performance of refugeeism.
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theater, performance, architecture of encounter, migration, precarious bodies, multilingualism, multiethnicityReferences
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Ewa Balewa.bal@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2434-6108
Ewa Bal - Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jagiellonian University in the Department of Performance Studies, where she heads the Laboratory of Research on Knowledge and Creative Practices of Local Cultures. Previously a lecturer at the University “L’Orientale” in Naples, visiting professor at universities in Italy and Spain. A member of the European Association for Studies of Theatre and Performance (EASTaP), the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and the Polish Society for Theatre Research (PTBT). She is the editor of the Jagiellonian University Publishing House's “New Perspectives: Performatics” series, in which eight volumes have been published since 2013. She has been working on Italian drama and theater and published Lokalność i mobilność kulturowa teatru. Śladami Arlekina i Pulcinelli, 2017 (English version: In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella. Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre, 2020), Cielesność w dramacie. Teatr Piera Paola Pasoliniego i jego możliwe kontynuacje, 2006. She co-edited: Situated Knowing. Epistemic Perspectives on Performance (with Mateusz Chaberski, Routledge, 2021), Bądźmy w kontakcie! Strefy kontaktu jako narzędzie rozpoznawania współczesności (with Konrad Wojnowski, Kraków 2020), Performatyka. Terytoria (with Dariusz Kosiński, Kraków 2017). Her current academic interests include cultural mobility, nationalism, localness, dramaturgies of linguistic minorities and critical methodologies in (de-/post-)colonialism, gender and queer studies, and performance studies.
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