Tomasz Miłkowski

Tomasz Milkowski is journalist, literary and theatrical critic, writer. He got his doctor degree in Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. He is author of many books (f.e.: "Vocabulary of Theatrical Therms", "Practical Vocabulary of Literary Terms", "The Naked Actor"), essays, and reviews. He is also editor and chief of the Internet theatrical quaterly "Yorick" (www.aict.art.pl). Since 2001 he has been the president of Polish section AICT/IATC. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of AICT/IATC.

Tomasz Milkowski’s paper "Who is a critic?" speaks about the author’s personal experience in Torino of Judith Nab installation All the People I Have Not Met. As a viewer who was supposed to produce a critical report on this performance, he was re-positioned, exchanging the role of observer for the role of active performer. The instructions received on entering, supported by a quotation from Pirandello’s One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, informed the viewer that this was a staging without a beginning or an end, that there were no classical actors in it or written or authorized texts, and that the performance was not based on representation - that everything depended on those entering the performance. Milkowski proposes this situation as a textbook example of intercriticism, i.e. criticism dealing with the critic himself.