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Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska

is assistant professor of interart (Eastern Europe) at the University of Zurich and at the Institute of Polish Culture (section for theatre and performance), University of Warsaw. She studied Polish and German philology at the Warsaw University and modern German literature, theatre studies and cultural communication at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2008–2012 she was deputy artistic director of the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw. Her scientific interests oscillate between culture studies, historiography and anthropology, theatre, performance and contemporary art. Sajewska explores performativity of the body and materiality of objects, as well as interrelations between theatre, politics and media. She also specializes in theories of archiving, particularly concerning documentation of theatre and performance. She is an author of various publications on theatre and performance, theatre scripts and three monographs.
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Bibliography
  • the Real
  • Think Art
  • art theory
  • art
  • political aesthetics
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • aesthetics
  • First World War
  • artistic practice
  • war experience
  • war
  • death
  • performativity
  • Poland