Krew i performans
Blood and Performance

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the text is an attempt to describe the condition of contemporary body by reference to examples of artistic performances, in which blood appears. The work is based on performance of Western culture only because I agree with the thesis of Jean ‑ Marie Pradier, stating that the shape of the performing arts stems from the way of acquiring knowledge about the body, which in Western culture comes from a dead body. By analysing the works of Jan Fabre, Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta, Gina Pane, Franko B and Bob Flanagan, I would like to explain the thesis of Jean ‑ Luc Nancy, who described body as a wound. This state of body is seen by Nancy as illness, which ‑ in my interpretation – is haemophilia.

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