Od rośliny-diagnozy do rośl-inności. Wokół performansu „Nie jestem rośliną”
From plant-diagnosis to plantlife-otherness. Around the performance I am not a plant

Summary/Abstract: In my article, I would like to consider the contribution of the reflection on the relationship with that which is plant in nature to the understanding of disability – starting from Aleksandra Skotarek's performance I am not a plant (Nie jestem rośliną). A stream of consciousness. When actuating the perspectives of critical plant studies and feminist materialism in the vein of Haraway or Braidotti, is it possible (and how?) to think of this type of relationship, which I refer to, following Haraway, as a relationship with significant otherness, as crippling the existing semantic field and the sphere of the imaginary? The potential for this type of thinking fits in with the key notion of brooding plantlife-otherness that I have invoked in the article. On the other hand, Skotarek’s performance necessitates the consideration of what kind of barriers are encountered by the thinking of post-human relationality when confronted with identity policies assuming the struggle for the recognition of subjectivity. And how the concrete experience of disability reconfigures the field of performance exploring relations with the extra human.

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