Literature week on Malta Festival Poznań 2015
21-27.06.2015Literature Week Timetable:
21.06 Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment – meeting with curator
21.06 Year 2015. Applied utopias
23.06 Poland / Year 2050
24.06 Europe / Year 2050
25.06 World / Year 2050
26.06 Literary games with the future
27.06 Meeting with the creators of the opera The Magic Mountain21.06: Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment
Meeting with the curator of the Idiom: New World Order. Tim Etchells, a British artist, is one of the most significant creators of European theatre, the founder of the legendary group Forced Entertainment which he has been working with for 30 years now. His work fuses visual simplicity and the lack of the spectacular with the absurd, irony and exaggeration. The meeting will pose an opportunity not only to discuss this year’s Idiom, but also the performances of Forced Entertainment presented in Poznań. Meeting’s guest leader: Katarzyna Tórz. Meeting with Tim Etchells after perfomance Tomorrow's Parties (21.06, 21:30) in Pavilion 'Nowa Gazownia' [New Gasworks].
21.06: Year 2015. Applied utopias
Why didn’t the most serious crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression in 1929 cause an avalanche of new ideas on how to organize the world? Once the future was ahead of us, fascinated us, fired our imagination, while today it arouses fear, we don’t want to anticipate it. But doesn’t it appear in our lives anyway, for instance, through technology? Are applied utopias an oxymoron? The meeting participants will be: Ewa Domańska, Łukasz Orbitowski, Wojciech Orliński, Michał Zygmunt. Meeting’s guest leader: Edwin Bendyk
23.06: Poland. Year 2050.
The meeting organized together with Program III Polskiego Radia [Polish Radio Three] and Instytut Książki [The Book Institute]. How will our country change in the upcoming 35 years? Will cities turn into anonymous dormitories? Will we cease to be a homogenous nation? Will the Europe we know break into pieces and age? And how will the world change? Will the United States still be the hegemonic leader? What about China, Russia and South America? Ziemowit Szczerek will be the meeting’s guest speaker. Meeting’s guest leaders: Szymon Kloska, Michał Nogaś.
24.06: Europe. Year 2050.
The meeting organized together with Program III Polskiego Radia [Polish Radio Three] and Instytut Książki [The Book Institute]. How will our country change in the upcoming 35 years? Will cities turn into anonymous dormitories? Will we cease to be a homogenous nation? Will the Europe we know break into pieces and age? And how will the world change? Will the United States still be the hegemonic leader? What about China, Russia and South America? Dariusz Rosiak will be the meeting’s guest speaker. Meeting’s guest leaders: Szymon Kloska, Michał Nogaś.
25.06: The World. Year 2050.
The meeting organized together with Program III Polskiego Radia [Polish Radio Three] and Instytut Książki [The Book Institute]. How will our country change in the upcoming 35 years? Will cities turn into anonymous dormitories? Will we cease to be a homogenous nation? Will the Europe we know break into pieces and age? And how will the world change? Will the United States still be the hegemonic leader? What about China, Russia and South America? Artur Domosławski will be the meeting’s guest speaker.
Meeting’s guest leaders: Szymon Kloska, Michał Nogaś.26.06: Literary games with the future
In his works Thomas Mann juxtaposes tradition with modernity, decadence with the fascination with the new, he overcomes past by looking towards the future. What vision of the future does modern-day literature offer? Does it propose any alternative to the world in which a dominant belief is that in the inevitability of a catastrophe? Conversation about the literature of the future and the future in literature. Its participants will be: Olga Tokarczuk, Małgorzata Łukasiewicz, Przemysław Czapliński, Jacek Dehnel.Meeting’s guest leader: Baszka Marcinik
27.06: Meeting with the creators of the opera The Magic Mountain
The meeting participants will be the creators of the Malta opera: Paweł Mykietyn – composer, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk – author of libretto, Andrzej Chyra – director, Mirosław Bałka – stage designer. On the one hand, it will be an opportunity to speak about the score, libretto, staging strategies, on the other, a chance to ask questions about the presence of Thomas Mann’s works in contemporary culture. What can you see from Berghof today? Meeting’s guest leader: Dorota Semenowicz