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Dorota Sajewska: Performing Periphery or the Ambivalence of Demodernization. Notes on Artur Żmijewski’s Film
Performing Periphery or the Ambivalence of Demodernization. Notes on Artur Żmijewski’s Film "Glimpse"
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Dorota Sajewska

Performing Periphery or the Ambivalence of Demodernization. Notes on Artur Żmijewski’s Film "Glimpse"

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  • justice
  • politics
  • Think Art
  • performance
  • Human rights
  • violence
  • collective memory

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Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2016 to 2023 she was Assistant Professor of Interart at the University of Zurich and of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on performative arts, body anthropology and decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of numerous texts on performative practices, theories and archives, including the monograph Necroperformance. Cultural Reconstruction of the Body (2019) and the anthology Crisis and Communitas. Performative Concepts of Commonality in Art and Politics (2023). From 2008-2012 she was chief dramaturge and deputy artistic director of Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. Since 2019 she has been working as a dramaturge with Alexandra Bachzetsis. In 2024, together with Fabienne Liptay, she founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded – a platform for the transformative power of transdisciplinary thinking and art.
Other texts by Dorota Sajewska for DIAPHANES
Liliana Gómez (ed.): Performing Human Rights

The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces and spatial manifestations, characterize (post)conflict situations. Yet counter-semantics and dissonant narratives that challenge this invisibility have been articulated by artists, writers, and human rights activists that increasingly seek to contest the related historical amnesia. Adopting “performance” as a concept that is defined by repetitive, aesthetic practices—such as speech and bodily habits through which both individual and collective identities are constructed and perceived (Susan Slyomovics)—this collection addresses various forms of performing human rights in transitional situations in Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East. Bringing scholars together with artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, Performing Human Rights addresses these instances of omission and neglect, revealing how alternate institutional spaces and strategies of cultural production have intervened in the processes of historical justice and collective memory.

 

With contributions by Zahira Aragüete-Toribio, Pauline Bachmann, Vikki Bell, Liliana Gómez, Joscelyn Jurich, Uriel Orlow, Friederike Pannewick, Elena Rosauro, Dorota Sajewska, Stephenie Young.