Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art

This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of visual art, theatre, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning.

Sylwia Dobkowska is lecturer in Theatre Studies at University of Gdäsk, Poland where she teaches intercultural theatre, contemporary performance, and critical theory. She researches visual representations of language in the form of theatre, performance, and art. She co-edited Justitia: Multidisciplinary Readings of the Work of the Jasmin Vardimon Company (2016).

1. Absence and Theatre Studies  2. Absence and Objects  3. Absence and Performers  4. Absence and Audience