Lease, Bryce (2023) ‘Transembodiment as Translation: Staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive’. In: Performance and Translation in a Global Age. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Abstract

In this chapter, I consider how translation pertains to the body on stage as a site of multiplicity and propose the term ‘transembodiment’ in my analysis of Weronika Szczawińska and Bartosz Frąckowiak’s Komornicka. Biografia pozorna (Komornicka. Ostensible biography, 2011). My intention in considering transembodiment is to analyse the effects and limitations of physical and fictional bodies as they appear within the mimetic, representational and concrete frame of the theatre space. Ultimately, I argue that the body is itself a paradigmatic site of translation, which can neither be reduced to nor fully dislodged from language, and which is both submitted to and escapes processes of mimetic representation. In this way, I do not offer transembodiment as a methodology but rather as a structure and a consequence of the process of transmission in the theatre that invites new subjects to emerge and come into being.

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Item Type:	Book Chapter
Subjects:	European Theatre, Dance and Performance Collaboration Dramaturgy Gender Acting and Actors Playwriting
Depositing User:	Bryce Lease
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2023 08:56
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2023 08:56
URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1767