Taniec organologiczny Cielesność u schyłku antropocenu
Organologic Dance: Corporeality at the Wane of the Anthropocene

Summary/Abstract: The author’s point of departure is Bernard Stiegler’s new approach to “organological” corporeality, which encompasses not only biological, but also technological life, organic matter and organized inorganic matter. Based on a comparative analysis of two performance works, Rudy Burckhardt and Douglas Dunn’s Rubble Dance Long Island City (1991) and Tejal Shah’s Landfill Dance (2012), the text demonstrates the potential of inventive corporealities for countering entropy and the progres- sive disintegration of ecosystems. Although both works involve dance in landfills presented as toxic remnants of capitalism, they approach corporeality in radically different ways. The former is in line with the diagnoses of Anthropocene scholars, highlighting the importance of the human body as living matter in the context of the dead remnants of the industrial age. The latter, in turn, reveals a hybrid corporeality, transcending the dichotomy of organic and inorganic matter and manifesting itself as a network of relationalities with other systems: ecological, geological, technological. The author proposes the concept of “organologic dance” to refer to a performance that projects new technologies of survival in the spirit of the Neganthropocene.

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