Nowe rozumienie „materialności” działań aktora/performera w kontekście zwrotu performatywnego
New meanings of the “materiality” of actor’s/performer’s movement in the context of the performative turn

Author(s): Lilianna Bieszczad
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: According to Erika Fischer-Lichte the linguistic turn initiated a new approach to cultural creations seen in terms of the text, which “means something”. In aesthetics, in relation to performing arts, this approach gave rise to the analyses attempting to translate the performer’s gestures and body movements into “the codes” to be interpreted. Thus the body’s significance was reduced to conveying the message while its materiality was pushed into the background. Several decades later the performative turn (sometimes connected with the materiality turn) shifted the focus of attention from the body regarded as a sign to the body’s movement and the way it affected the viewer. In aesthetics the question of the performer’s “physical presence” arose. The main objective of this article is to examine the different meanings of the “materiality” as the reaction to the linguistic turn. The paper is constructed around Erika Fischer-Lichte’s and Marvin Carlson’s conceptions.

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