“The Thinking Machine” – The Simultaneous Theater of Szymon Syrkus and Andrzej Pronaszko: Toward an Archeology of Digital Performance in Poland Cover Image

„Myśląca maszyna” – Teatr Symultaniczny Szymona Syrkusa i Andrzeja Pronaszki. Ku archeologii performansu cyfrowego w Polsce
“The Thinking Machine” – The Simultaneous Theater of Szymon Syrkus and Andrzej Pronaszko: Toward an Archeology of Digital Performance in Poland

Author(s): Jakub Kłeczek
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to revisit an unrealized architectural design for Andrzej Pronaszko and Szymon Syrkus’s Simultaneous Theater using media archeology. Kłeczek claims that the use of advanced communications techniques in theater, dance, and other performance arts can be seen from a wider perspective than the artists’ latest accomplishments. He argues his thesis by reconstructing the methodological bases of media archeology, as conceived by Siegfried Zielinski. Then he reads the titular project from a perspective of today’sperformance art theory – including its relationship with media, multimediality, and the cyborg.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 139-140
  • Page Range: 41-48
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish