Ciało jako medium postpamięci
Body as a Medium of Post-memory

Summary/Abstract: In the post -memory discourse the visual and textual remains – images andnarrations – function as the main media connecting the present and the past.Whereas this text concentrates on the meaning of the body as a medium ofmemory transmission. On the one hand, recalling the corporeal aspects presentin Marianne Hirsch’s works, on the other – Rebecca Schneider’s the oriesplacing the question of the body as an archive in the very centre, as well asAlison Landsberg’s concept of prosthetic memories, the author shows howtoday’s theatre, performance and video art concerned with the issue of theShoah, try to offer the possibility of the body -to -body transmission of historyand collective experience.

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