Name and surname: Tomáš Kubart
Degree: Mgr., Ph.D.
Department: Czech Theatre Studies Department
Email: tomas.kubart@idu.cz
Tomáš Kubart is a theatre historian, pedagogue and publicist. Since 2019 he has been working at the Research Team for Modern Czech Theatre at the Institute for Czech Literature of the CAS, and since 2024 at the Theatre Institute - ATI as a researcher, focusing on the history of Czech theatre in the first and second half of the 20th century, German-language drama, scenography, performance and action art. He has taught or lectured at the JAMU in Brno, DAMU in Prague, the Department of Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno, the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc , and the Department of Cultural Dramaturgy at the Silesian University in Opava. He is the author and co-author of studies (Theatralia, Theatre revue, Arte Acta, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Illuminace, etc.), articles and publications. He is a member of the Theatrical Society, the Association of Czech Theatre Critics and Critics AICT/IACT, ČOSDAT/OISTAT, dramaturgical boards, and the jury of the Josef Balvín Award.
Education
2014-2021 Theory and History of Film and Theatre, PhD, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
2013-2014 Theory and History of Film, MA, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
2007-2010 Theory and History of Film, BA, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
2003-2007 St. Agnes of Bohemia Secondary School of Art and Design, Český Krumlov, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic; studies in Fine Art of Ceramics and Porcelain and Applied Painting
Professional résumé
5/2024 - present: Czech Theatre Studies Department, Theatre Institute (ATI), researcher
1/2019 - present: Department of 20th Century and Contemporary Literature and Research Team for Modern Czech Theatre (from 2024), the Institute for Czech Literature, CAS
7/2018 - present: Performativity Research Centre (Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University, formerly under the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University); co-organiser of the Performance & Performativity Workshop (9/2019)
7/2018-9/2020: Brno City Museum, Vila Tugendhat, guide (ENG, DEU)
1/2018-1/2019: Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, external bibliographer
5/2018-11/2018: House of Arts, Brno, external curator
10/2017-4/2018: collaborator on grant GAP049/11/1082: Czech Theatre Structuralism: relations and potentials
9/2017-3/2021: Salon of Czech and Slovak Scenography (OISTAT / Arts and Theatre Institute), collaboration on exhibition concept and design
8/2017: Summer Schools of Politics and Aesthetics of the Common: Cultural Performances and the Public Sphere, Jaroměř-Josefov 2017, co-organizer
11/2015-2/2016: Cultural dramaturgy, The Institute of the Czech Studies and Library Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Silesian University, Opava
2/2014-6/2016: Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno, librarian
Conferences
2023 Perspectives of Theatre Studies 4, Klaus Theweleit in Theatre Studies - 'Fascist Man' as a Tool for Interpreting the Aesthetics of Shock, Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
2023 A Bottle Full of Dark Liquid. Conference on the centenary of Vratislav Effenberger's birth, Studies on a fraction of theatrical reality: Effenberger's reflection on stage style and directorial personality, Department of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague.
2023 (Un)Vereintes Europa? Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur nach 2000, Aktionstheater Ensemble und Überschreitungen der ethnischen Grenzen, Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS, Prague.
2021 Pain, Fool or Prison, Institute of Art History of the CAS, Prague.
2018 3. CIJIET Congreso International de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Teatrales, Body suspension: the Performativity of Pain, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2018 Perspectives of Theatre Studies 1, Performance art and performativity, Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
2017 4th Doctoral Symposium, Concepts in Action Art - Revision and Outlook, Department of Theatre Studies, Mikulov.
2014 Halftime of Decay, Elements of Environment in Czech Scenography, ATI (Arts and Theatre Institute), Prague.