Ciało jako nowe medium społeczne w performatyce litewskiej: jak dyskurs wchodzi w materię?
Body as a New Social Medium in Lithuanian Per-formative Arts: How Discourse Comes to Matter
Author(s): Basia Nikiforova, Kęstutis ŠapokaSubject(s): History, Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: abjection; commodities; body recenceptualization; emotional terror; matter; new mateiralism; post-humanism; sexuality; violence
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the concept of new materialism and examines the issue of how new materialism tackles visual art in innovative ways – though the intersections of artistic practice, art-as-research, and philosophical analysis. Selected artworks by S & P Stanikas and Evaldas Jansas are analyzed in this paper as body reconceptualization in Lithuanian art, employing the approach of new materialism. We will explore the geopolitical and ideological background, in which Lithuanian and Polish visual artists grapple with cultural binaries from the 1960s to the 1990s: male-female gendered bodies, traditional or contemporary art, and the artist as free individual or the one tied to ideology. Employing Rossi Braidotti’s term “affirmative”, this article poses a question whether it is possible to argue on the analyzed cases that “affirmative politics combines critique with creativity in the pursuit of alternative visions and projects”.
Journal: Kultura i Wartości
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 5-19
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English