Mobilność kulturowa w badaniach nad przedstawieniami – perspektywy metodologiczne
Cultural Mobility in Performance Studies – Methodological Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to outline new methodological perspectives on performance studies which derive from Stephen Greenblatt’s Cultural Mobility Manifesto, published in 2010. It analyses the concept of “contact zones,” introduced for the first time in the humanities by Mary Luise Pratt in 1993, and subsequently developed by Stephen Greenblatt and Donna J. Haraway, demonstrating how it reformulates the present understanding of “performance.” According to the author of the article, the contact zones, intended as a space of encounter of heterogenic subjects, allow scholars to have a closer look at emergent strategies, meanings, and contingencies of the present cultural reality. To explain her argument, the author analyses two study cases: the performance Exhibit B by Brett Bailey from 2013, and an exhibition of photographer Pieter Ugo, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (05.07.2018–07.10.2018).

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