I’ve been taking notes on Grotowsky’s Towards a Poor Theatre. I can see where Celant drew the inspiration for his own Arte Povera manifesto. There is a lot of spiritual language here, in his theatrical laboratory in Poland, Grotowsky intended to search for the inner innate actor. To achieve this a method was developed of skills to (forget the id?) attain pure acting. Just like the materials of AP. Also a bit Beuys-y. He tries to erase the notion of separation between actor and audience, by having no stage, and incorporating the audience into the architecture. Man – Art relationship was a big concern in AP as well………………….. ~~~~~