Nowe formy performatyki

Abstract

The text relates interdisciplinary liturgical and cultural research carried out in collaboration with national and international research centers at the Faculty of Philology and Faculty of Theology of the University of Opole. The ten-year study resulted in four collective publications, which are Icons of the Invisible ed. M. Lis, Z.W. Solski (2003), Liturgy in the world of entertainment ed. H.J. Sobeczko, Z.W. Solski (2005), Word and gesture ed. H.J. Sobeczko, Z.W. Solski (2009), Between liturgics and performance studies. Exploration I ed. E. Mateja, Z.W. Solski (2012). In recent years, the focus was on performative research at the threshold of liturgy and theater. The Faculty of Theology of the University of Opole is currently the only Polish catholic academic center, which ventured to conduct performative research on the liturgy. Results of the research conducted at the University of Opole, the author presents on the broad background of the development of performance studies in Poland and abroad.