Between the Stage and the Obscene: On the Critical Potential of the Naked Body
Between the Stage and the Obscene: On the Critical Potential of the Naked Body

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the subversive potential of nudity and pornography in such plays as This Is a Musical by Karol Tymiński and Hundred Toasts for a Dead Artist by Anita Wach and Bojan Jablanovec, representing critical choreography focused on dominant socio-political order of representation. It also describes the deconstruction of normative models of being in the world to establish new rules of the game in opposition to existing ones and the discovery of mutual private and public influences. The choreographies under discussion can be described as both perverse and subversive, which allows for presenting obscene relationships with emancipation. The author tries to prove that in the space of art, obscenity is often a trickster’s strategy, leading to the redefinition of the existing division into what is visible and invisible in the public space.

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