3-4, 13-19, 21-23 Aug at 7:15 pm
Summerhall (venue 26) Anatomy Lecture Theatre / 1 Summerhall (EH9 1PL)
Tickets: £9/£7
Box office: 0845 874 3001
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Age restrictions: 16+
Wojtek's performance takes on the form of a lecture, combining personal narrative, monologues, historical facts, and contemporary choreography in an attempt to confront the history that he had no control over. Audiences witness elements of private confession, academic lecture, video art, and modern choreography. Fiction mixes with reality, and private narration with a historical commentary – all in an attempt to cope with the painful problem of memory and the manipulations it undergoes.Wojtek Ziemilski explains
When I decided to write the Small Narration I asked myself "What do I have that's powerful for me?" And I felt I had two things, one – the fact that I'm a grandson, and the other - the universe of contemporary performing and visual arts that I identify with. What is pertinent to this approach is its direct link with reality: documents, elements of my autobiography, and that which surrounds us. (…) For me Small Narration is also a piece about memory. Memory is a space wherein the pain of absence is felt most acutely. Especially when thinking about people, we remember a body, a form of contact and its physicality, and at the same time all of this recalling is connected to an absence. It's based on the body not being here anymore.
Wojtek Ziemilski is a graduate of the theatre direction programme at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisboa. Ziemilski collaborated with komuna// warszawa on the Map project, and he authored a visual installation entitled Actors at the TR Warszawa. He regularly cooperates with Krytyka Polityczna, komuna// warszawa, Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, and the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute. He runs his own blog on contemporary art (new-art.blogspot.com) and posts in a daily photo-column on Krytyka Polityczna’s website.