Doświadczenie jako próba dzieła – próba siebie
Experience as a Work’s Test – a Test of Oneself

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the activities of the artist in a perspective of broadly understood category of experience. The considerations raised here derive from Richard Shusterman’s and Wolfgang Welsch’s aesthetic thought, and are an attempt at reading Tadeusz Kantor’s creativity in the optic of new aisthesis. Moreover, following Arnold Berleant, the category of “embodied subject” is introduced. All the aforementioned tropes direct the reflection on experience towards somatoaesthetics. This approach, used to refer to the creator himself as well as to his work showing the bodily dimension of the art and its sources, unfolds the mental conditions of the process of creation and Kantor’s thinking of himself and of his creativity in terms of “infernum interior.” Artistic creativity, indispensably linked to mental and physical effort, is not only seen as an experience of oneself and experience of one’s own work, but also as a feeling of one’s work and one’s mental and physical presence in it. In this perspective the aesthetic experience earns a dramatic trait.

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