Matěj Nytra “Coming to Closeness / Близькість. Performativity of Documentary Auteur Theatre Sharing”

Abstract

The experience of working with protagonists from Ukrainian regions leading to the creation of an intertextual documentary performance, accompanied by associated events, cannot be suppressed by the passage of time, especially if the source of this creation has not been fully explored yet. Encounters with personal texts, testimonies, and imaginations, written by people untrained in creative practice, required a particular type of sensitivity and fragility. Getting close to the human scar also meant adopting an identity, or its signs, in creative empathy. This is a reflection on the personal process of adaptation at the time of war and an analysis of one of the tendencies in contemporary auteur theatre.

Author’s CV

Graduate from the JAMU Theatre Faculty (2017) in theatre dramaturgy. Ph.D. studies since 2018, collaboration with the department of scenography. Graduate from FF MUNI (2015): Film Theory and History and AV Culture. Chief dramaturg of HaDivadlo (CED): 2016–2023. Collaboration on film and documentary projects, editorial and journalistic practice, activist contacts.

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