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O ciele i mięsie
Of the Body and Flesh

Author(s): Marcelina Obarska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: animal; Castellucci; relationality; materialism; post‑anthropocentrism

Summary/Abstract: The author attempts to take a critical stance against the director’s powerful self‑narrative.Her skepticism toward Castellucci’s trademark poetic reveals the materialist dimension of his theater, in light of whichsuch notions as relationality, indistinguishability, simple observation,and giving the floor were revitalized and led to an open, unhampered directorial discourse, in a “thinking‑out‑loud”style of analysis. Thearticle joins post‑anthropocentric thought inspired by Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida’s gentleness toward animals, and Deleuze’s take on the work of art in all of its relational complexity.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 148
  • Page Range: 38-45
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish