Mamuta hosts Hazira & Komuna theater from Warsaw
Entrance fee: 20 nis, write to: marketing@hazira.org.il
A first step of collaboration, starting with a- 3 days workshop in Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center in Jerusalem on February 2011. In this first visit Grzegorz Laszuk (Artistic Director), together with a few artists from the company, will lead an active meeting in Jerusalem, with a group of young artists of Hazira, starting with personal stories, moving to an interaction with the city as a site.
Short and clear, in Grzegorz Laszuk’s words:
1. We hate theory – we love practice
2. We don’t like to waste time in “empty” workshops
3. We love to eat-meet-drink-talk
At the end of these 3 days eating-meeting- working, there will be an open presentation, and a starting point for the bigger collaboration process.
About Komuna//Warszawa
• A community action arts group with anarchistic roots. It was mostly involved in activities on the border of the theatre, the visual arts theatre and performance art. It also carried out interdisciplinary activities going beyond the sphere of art. In its early days the group became involved in local projects and animating cultural life in Otwock. For a few years it ran an alternative shelter in the village of Ponurzyca near Warsaw and got involved in ecological education for the local children. It published the irregular publication Info and Info2, ran the pirate radio station Czosnek (Garlic) in Otwock and an art gallery (Biuro/Galeria – Office/Gallery).
The Otwock Commune organised concerts, exhibitions, talks and became engaged in socially committed campaigns. In cooperation with such organizations as Amnesty International, and the Inna Przestrzeń (The Other Space) Foundation it organized a few dozen performances on social issues (e.g. Furs for Animals, 1995; the Vistula Holiday, 1995, The 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1998; The 10th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, 1999; Simulator of Being Stuck in a Traffic Jam, 2001; Viva Zapata! A Charitable Event in Support of the Autonomous School and Clinic for the Chiapas Indians, 2002; Put a Stop to Torture, 2007; The Alternative Opening of the Olympics, 2008; Uprising 1944 – Sitting 2009).
The Commune’s style incorporates the fusion of performance, concert (the spectacles are accompanied by live music) , visual arts and elements of dance. The Otwock Commune also likes to use multimedia. The performances, which are devoid of emotion, energetic and highly rhythmical, reflect a fascination with precise minimalism, the Japanese Noh, or physical theatre, as well as an auto-ironic approach to the function of “Theatre” or the “Actor”.
for further info: http://komuna.warszawa.pl/komunawarszawa-communewarsaw/
