Teatr odzyskanego ciała. O Blason du corps féminin Ilse Garnier
Theater of the Recovered Body: On Ilse Garnier’s Blason du corps féminin

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyze Blason du corps féminin byFrench-language spatial poet Ilse Garnier. It reflects on the logo-visual strategy ofGarnier’s feminist recovery of blason, a literary genre popular in the 16th centuryFrance. Then, using the theories of Tim Ingold and Wassily Kandinsky, it examinesthe relationship between plane, line and letter and their functions in the story ofthe female body. The relationship between line shape and affect is also discussed,as well as the rhythmicity of Garnier’s works in relation to the theories and worksof Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro. The choreographic potential ofthe work is also outlined, with reference to the records of dance choreographers.Finally, the poet’s drawing-and-writing process is traced: drawing with a compass,the choreography of gestures (considerations have been based mainly on textsby Tim Ingold and André Leroi-Gourhan), kinetic energy, the role of the typewriterimportant for Garnier, and the associated tension between the subject’s gestureand her absence.

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