The Signifier Cannot Be Detached from the Body
The Signifier Cannot Be Detached from the Body

Summary/Abstract: The text is a proposal to analyse the film Symphony of the Ursus Factory from threedifferent perspectives: performance studies, qualitative research, and participatory art.Departing from a quote by the director, Jaśmina Wójcik, where she reminisces about herfirst encounters with the former employees of the factory, the author focuses on the issue ofembodied knowledge. Through discussing different moments of the film and its visual andaudial strategy, the author also shows how theatricality mixes with documentality in theproduction. The author also refers to different events and activities from the nine-year-longFactory Ursus Project to show it as a long-term process grounded on different modes ofparticipation and collaboration, without which the movie could not have been possible andwhich legitimates its artistic form.

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