Individual and Community Crises in a Pandemic: The Social Theater of Ambulatory Care
Katarzyna Kułakowska
katarzyna.kulakowska@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-4394
Katarzyna Kalinowska
The Educational Research Institute (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-6107
Olga Drygas
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0850-4193
Michał Bargielski
(Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-4923
Abstract
This article offers a preliminary diagnosis of Polish social theaters with regard to the crises of the individual and the community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The interpretive framework is Lidia Zamkow’s concept of the theater of ambulatory care, which allows us to locate the activity of social theaters in the context of Michel de Certeau’s tactics and Jack Halberstam’s low theories. The theater of ambulatory care recognizes the needs of individuals and communities in a pandemic crisis and reacts to them in different ways. We distinguish and describe three ideal types of diagnoses and the resulting treatments that theaters of ambulatory care use in a pandemic: therapy, conjuring, and revolution. The article is based on materials collected during two studies: a funded research project on the anthropological and social activity of the Węgajty Theater, carried out at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a survey among theater staff during the pandemic, initiated by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute in Warsaw. (Trans. K. Kułakowska)
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Keywords:
social theater, pandemic, crisis, individual, sociaty, community, low theory, theater of ambulatory careReferences
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Katarzyna Kułakowskakatarzyna.kulakowska@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-4394
dr Katarzyna Kulakowska – cultural scientist, cultural anthropologist, social researcher. Currently as an assistant professor at the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences, she studies the working method of the Węgajty Theater on the basis of the experiences of its participants. She has published two monographies: Miasto płci (Gender City. The Lover’s Discourse of Maria Peszek, Warszawa 2010) and Błaźnice. Kobiety kontrkultury teatralnej w Polsce (Jestresses. The Women of Polish Theatrical Counterculture, Warszawa 2017). Her research interests include the specificity of female experience in the Polish theatre; gender, body and sexuality. She is working on integrating feminist perspectives into the Polish theatre studies.
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Katarzyna KalinowskaThe Educational Research Institute Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-6107
dr Katarzyna Kalinowska – socjolożka. Obecnie adiunktka w Instytucie Badań Edukacyjnych. Zajmuje się socjologią emocji i miłości, metodologią jakościową oraz etyką badań, jest zaangażowana we wspieranie rozwoju pedagogiki teatru w Polsce. Autorka książki Praktyki flirtu i podrywu. Studium z mikrosocjologii emocji (2018).
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Olga DrygasInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0850-4193
mgr Olga Drygas – teatrolożka. Obecnie doktorantka w Instytucie Sztuki PAN, gdzie pod kierunkiem prof. zw. dr hab. Krystyny Duniec przygotowuje rozprawę Lidia Zamkow. W stronę morfowania historii polskiego teatru. Kuratorka i koordynatorka projektów międzynarodowych w Nowym Teatrze w Warszawie, dramaturżka.
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Michał BargielskiPoland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-4923
mgr Michał Bargielski – socjolog zainteresowany ewaluacją programów publicznych i badaniem społeczności lokalnych. Ewaluator i badacz skoncentrowany na problematyce rozwoju lokalnego, polityce społecznej i animacji kultury.
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