Trumienki Mortona Bartletta. Między niesamowitością a wstrętem
Mr. Bartlett’s coffins. Between the Uncanny and the Disgust

Summary/Abstract: The text deals with concept of the Uncanny (das Unheimliche) in context of the (art)works presented between 2011 and 2013 within the four-part project secret universe run by the Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. To present my identifications concerning the notion of the Uncanny I am referring to Bartlett’s oeuvre. For nearly thirty years, he has been following his passion for the Uncanny. Bartlett has developed an extensive and intimate practice of creating dolls, from carving their shapes through designing the entire wardrobe, to performing the dolls live-like, narrative acts which he then photographed and put aside. Bartlett’s mysterious family is an excellent foundation for the analysis of the Uncanny concept initially introduced by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche. I will also investigate the category of Disgust as used by Sara Ahmed in her essay The performativity of disgust and inquire, which emotion / affect, uncanny or disgust, is more adequate for describing Bartlett works.

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