„Proszę, ażeby były na papierze, bo improwizowanie [...] z racą poleci”. Archiwum filomatów z perspektywy performatyki
“Proszę, ażeby były na papierze, bo improwizowanie [...] z racą poleci [Put Them into Paper, as when Improvised [...] they Shoot with a Flare]”. The Philomaths’ Archive from the Perspective of Performative Studies

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to describe the unofficial part of Archiwum Filomatów (Philomaths’ Archive) from the perspective of performance studies. As its starting point, it adopts the recognition that a marked number of the Philomaths’ manuscripts is linked with name day celebrations, ‘radiant’ May festivities, and other forms of get-together meetings, and thus the handwritings can be analysed as performance documentation. The Philomath pieces underwent examinations with the categories derived from performance or theatre studies, particularly script, liveness, performative documentation, and ephemerality. Performativity included into the text is highlighted: manuscripts are interpreted broader than only within the framework of mediation of past events.

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