Sprawczość scenografii – między sceną teatralną i społeczną

Abstract

This article discusses the research project Change the Setting: Polish Theatrical and Social Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries, carried out by a team led by Dariusz Kosiński, and concluded with a three-volume publication. The author presents the project’s theoretical premises and subject matter. She introduces and analyzes the concepts of theatrical scenography and social scenography, drawing on the example of the publication’s last volume, which re-enacts in book form an exhibition shown at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in 2019. The exhibition presented the transformations of Polish theater set design in the 20th and 21st centuries, juxtaposing them with records of political and social events. The author of the article focuses on the volume’s value in terms of culture research: she is primarily interested in its approach to the idea of social scenography and the method of translating the reality of the exhibition into a book.

Keywords

• theater scenography
• social scenography
• engaged theater
• exhibition narrative