| Abstrakt: |
The article showcases the performances of artists associated with the Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland, in the 1970s, who used in their actions relationships with "beyond-human" entities, such as living and non-living nature, plants, animals, and machines. I present the famous performances of Teresa Murak, Krzysztof Zarębski, Tomek Kawiak, and Józef Robakowski, in which the performers' bodies were presented in a hybrid relationship, intertwined with biological, technological, economic, social, political, and other systems, processes, and events of various scales. I analyze these performances using the concept of "trans-corporeality" coined by the posthumanist feminist scholar Stacy Alaimo, which emphasizes creative connections and transgressive encounters between what is human and what is not and points to the fluidity and the lack of fixed boundaries in material reality. This theory requires rethinking about the body and presents it in relation to other non-human entities, as well as the surrounding matter, which is not read as a context but as part of the action. I reflect on how the concept of "trans-corporeality" could be useful for analyzing art production, especially body art and performance art that places the artist's body at the center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
