Obscenities and Indecency on the Offensive? Cover Image

Obscena i nieprzyzwoitość w natarciu?
Obscenities and Indecency on the Offensive?

Author(s): Grzegorz Stępniak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Theatre; Performing Arts; Drama

Summary/Abstract: The artists from NEA 4, who became known in the nineties for their refusal to compromise, raised issues, over the course of four performances given at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in California (27-28 IX 2012), relating to identity, censoring and aggression as well as the brutal sanctioning of cultural and social norms. Stępniak, on investigating the performers’ strategies, notes that these days the most dominant features in the group’s projects are snippets from popular culture devoid of the political potential that characterised the art of the “NEA Four” a decade ago.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 114
  • Page Range: 132-137
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish