Performowanie granicy polsko-ukraińskiej : epistemologie usytuowane w teatrze ostatnich lat

In recent years, the Polish - Ukrainian border has become a field for reflection on the causality of situated knowing, which I understand as the possibility of diagnosing and learning about the world through art in the given context. The situated knowing enables to encounter and negotiate different local epistemologies in order to overcome top-down and upposedly objective perceptions of Central and Eastern Europe. In the performances I am discussing, three variants of this negotiation are outlined: Undermining the border-activated dualistic thinking about the division into a supposedly developed Western Europe and a backward Eastern Europe by activating the memory of the forced resettlement of ethnic minorities; expanding the field of recognition of the language of the dominant culture or resisting its epistemic violence by including minority languages in it; and finally, giving a stage voice to war refugees in order to build their subjectivity or create the conditions for a free critique of the Western episteme. The above-mentioned case studies are based on performances made in the last few years by artists from Poland, Ukraine and the PolishUkrainian borderland.