Secret theatre: Off-the-grid performance practices in socialist Poland and Czechoslovakia
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2019

This study investigates off-the-grid performance practices that took shape in socialist Poland and former Czechoslovakia, between 1956 and 1989. The analysis challenges existing views on nonconformist creative practices as practices that are in binary opposition with topdown cultural initiatives. To unpack the network of interactions between the performances and their venues, the study builds on theorizing about deterritorialized spaces (Yurchak 2016) and heterotopias (Foucault 1971). Both terms