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Censorship and the canon in the face of non-normativity on the example of the exhibitions ‘5,000 pieces’ and ‘Me and AIDS’
Author(s): Dorota SosnowskaSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: transition; HIV/AIDS; critical art; censorship; canon
Summary/Abstract: The paper reflects on the censorship after 1989 in the context of its ability to create and paradoxically legitimise the otherness. As an example the author uses Polish imagery around the HIV/AIDS epidemics with special focus on two artistic exhibitions from the early 1990s with the epidemic as the subject. One of them was quite successful, but it is forgotten today; the other is remembered to this day and often mentioned in the context of 1990s art even though it was censored back then. Showing the relations between censorship and discourses of otherness the paper reflects on different political possibilities inscribed in the history of transition.
Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 172
- Page Range: 112-138
- Page Count: 27
- Language: Polish