Performans jako asamblaż
Performance as Assemblage

Summary/Abstract: Mateusz Chaberski analyzes the genealogy of performance as various types of assemblage. He problematizes the issue of describing audience experience, which eludes the rigid divisions of a mechanistic Cartesian philosophy. He formulates the conclusion that the contemporary theory of assemblage collapses the fundamental opposition between subject and object, making them interchangeable, depending on the interaction that occurs between their various components. Among his examples is the performance Growing Geometries, which involves injecting mushrooms with ink in an early phase of their development. The mushrooms’ transformation from passive material to independent work of art turns the scientist into an observer. This leads Chaberski to the thesis that the assemblage scholar cannot proceed like an objective observer of reality – he must consider his own entanglement with the subject of his study.

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