Witness/Action
Witness/Action is a seminar that aims to define a new model in the performing arts. Witness/Action does not involve any new genre definitions within the performing arts, but seeks to move beyond aesthetic categories towards an ethical perspective, built on a belief that any performing situation involving performer/actor and recipient/spectator becomes a part of the chain of witnessing, which, through the medium of art, strive to convey questions relating to human dignity and identity.
Witness/Action stads in opposition to the passiveness of contemporary art and its dissociation from the deep challenges that transform our consciousness.
During the seminar we want to enable witnessing by those whose activity defies definitions known from various fields of art, and, above all, is a more-than-average engagement with ‘defining’ a language that is used to define human identity and dignity.
Jarosław Fret
