Cracks of Existence
- : Iwona Kempa
- : Anna Bas, Iwona Kempa
- : Joanna Zemanek
- : Mateusz Bieryt
- : Mira Smrek
- : Anna Wójcicka
- The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Machine House [Miniature] Stage
- Premiere: 17.11.2023
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[...] one cannot be satisfied with the role of an unwitting performer of existential activities. And inself-defence,
one must pursue the meaning of everyday life as if it were a lurking criminal.
We are going to philosophise. Though perhaps philosophising may seem like the wrong term in this case, because it is associated with the mind, and here it's about philosophising with the body, philosophising about what we experience, and how we experience it as carnal beings. As beings in female bodies. Philosophising is mostly associated with the "heights" of the human (meaning: male) intellect, and to many it seems the opposite of a daily routine filled with trivial activities. We, on the other hand, wish to philosophise about the ordinary, the banal, the trivial, about the cleaning up, the busyness, the puttering around and tending to everything. About the daily labour that is the essence of our existence. This is where we’ll be searching for the meaning and properties of our human-female existence. In the existential reality that takes the form of a washcloth, a cherry fruit or a piece of meat.
We will be guided by Jolanta Brach-Czaina, a philosopher and writer with a cult status among Polish feminist critics and thinkers, the author of an extraordinary book, or rather a booklet-essay titled Cracks of Existence, first published in 1992.
