Zakaz reprezentacji i reprezentacja zakazana (Pankowski, Libera, Nancy)
The Ban on Representation and Banned Representation (Pankowski, Libera, Nancy)

Summary/Abstract: Jakub Momro analyzes how the subject of the Holocaust is broached in Marian Pankowski’s Making Theater over the Holy Borscht and Lego: A Concentration Camp by Zbigniew Libera, in the context of Jean-Luc Nancy’s theory of the “ban on representation.” He notes that Pankowski and Libera “demonstrate the rules of modern iconoclasm in order to perceive the cognitive, ethical, and anthropological entanglements of the medium itself (theater, art, the ‘object’) in the structure of the ‘ban on representation.’ The work of both artists is saddled with a risk that involves remaining in the aesthetic dimension of representation, which can not be separated from other territories of human activity and sensitivity.” The stakes of their artistic efforts is the ethical/aesthetic difference.

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