Coronet Inside Out: Teresa & Andrzej Wełmiński
Trailers for Limbo, Hubble Bubble & Against Nothingness or 3 cm Above an Empty Head
Multidisciplinary artists Teresa & Andrzej Wełminski have shared a message along with trailers for their performances Limbo (2019), Hubble Bubble (2017) and Against Nothingness or 3 cm Above an Empty Head (2014).
“In these dreary times, from our studio, which is located somewhere in Poland in the village near Krakow, we send heartfelt greetings to The Coronet Theatre and its spectators.
The Coronet is particularly close to us. In 2018, we were invited by Anda Winters to present The Comet performance in her theatre. The Coronet is beautiful Victorian theatre to which Edward Gordon Craig was associated – a great visionary, theatre theorist and reformer, creator of the new grammar of the stage on which the modern theatre was built, and to which contemporary theatre still refers. At the Coronet Theatre E.G. Craig realized his performances.“ – Teresa & Andrzej Wełminski
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Teresa & Andrzej Wełminski
Teresa & Andrzej Wełminski are multidisciplinary artists whose practice spans drawing, painting, photography, object, and installations. Their body of work fuses art and theatre. They are actors and members of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2 Theatre company. They are also well-known theatrical creators.
Andrzej Welminski was born in Krakow in 1952 and studied in the Graphics Faculty of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1977. Associated with the Foksal Gallery (debut in 1970 as Anonymous Artist)and the Krzysztofory Gallery. Teresa Welminska was born in Krakow in 1954 and studied at Collegium Medicum, Krakow. She worked, inter alia, in a Mental Health Clinic. In the 1970s, they started collaborating with Tadeusz Kantor and became members of the Cricot 2 Theater, since then they participated in all the subsequent activities and performances of the experimental theatre company until the death of its founder, Tadeusz Kantor, in 1990.
Teresa and Andrzej have been instrumental in developing the work of the company since Kantor’s death, and in 1991 they staged the “Homage” that marked the first anniversary of his passing. Working as theater directors staged their own independent projects: Manjacs or Their Master’s voice (1993); America or Don’t Look Back (1995); The Motion Demon (1996); The Slaughterhouse according to Mrożek (1997); Da liegt der Hund begraben (1997); Traumatikon (2011); Flammarion (2011); Pages from the Book of… (2012); Against Notingness or 3 cm Above an Empty Head… (2014); Transylvania Sketches or Melancholy of the Black Egg (2015); Straw Hieroglyphs (2015); Et in Arcadia Ego (2015); Hubble Bubble and other Persian Miniatures (2017); The Comet (2017); Limbo (2019) among others.
The performances were presented and awarded within the most important international festivals, inter alia, in Avignon, Sao Paulo, Rome, Valladolid, Cagliari, Edinburgh, Bratislava, Moscow, Sibiu, Chisinau, Tehran.
In parallel with artistic activity, Teresa and Andrzej Welminski conduct educational activities. They cooperate with theaters and theatrical schools in various regions of the world (Yale University, Luca Drama Leuven in Belgium, University of Washington, La MaMa Umbria, Loughborough University, Stuttgart, Romainmotier, Rote Fabryk in Zurich, Scuola Teatro Dimitri Verscio, Loughborough University, UK, University of Washington, USA, Rose Bruford College in London, University of Tehran and other places), conducting lectures and workshops on history, theory and stage practice.
Currently, they live and work in Sobolów near Kraków in Poland.