The Politics of Participation

Abstract

The curator tells the story of the start of the Wielopolska: Revolution, revealing that the idea came as an act of opposition to the following: political theatre understood solely as transmission of certain contents, regardless of their audience and potential for social inclusion; the fact that the artists representing the trend for socially engaged theatre ignore those they claim to speak for; superficially democratizing practices trapped in the circles of a well-educated metropolitan middle class; monopolization of Polish theatre by a single mode of production that restricts the scope of aesthetic and cultural interventions. Siwiak goes on to summarize the experience and results of the project.