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2024 | 15 | 1 | 107-125

Article title

Dis/Connection: Multisensuality and Shame’s Touch in the Work of Gabrielle Goliath

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(Roz)łączność: wielozmysłowość i element wstydu w twórczości Gabrielle Goliath

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Abstracts

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Autorka artykułu snuje rozważania na temat uczuć wywoływanych u odbiorcy w kontakcie z fizycznym, absorbującym i żywym performansem, a także doznań fizycznych wywoływanych przez takie wielozmysłowe zaangażowanie, szczególnie w odniesieniu do sfery dotyku i uczucia wstydu. Dyskusja koncentruje się na twórczości południowoafrykańskiej artystki i performerki, Gabrielle Goliath, poddając krytycznej analizie pracę Stumbling Block (2011/2017), która ma charakter nietrwały, a ciało zarówno performera i widza stanowią centrum performansu w zakresie wywoływanego efektu i zaangażowania patrzącego. Takie umiejscowienie ludzkiego ciała w pracach artystki wywołuje u odbiorcy empatię sprawiającą, że angażuje się w pokaz na żywo. Artykuł pokazuje także, jak performans kształtuje relacje pomiędzy ciałami, które stanowią potencjalnie dotykalną przestrzeń. Dodatkowo taka „niewypowiedziana” interakcja między ciałami przypomina nam, że nasze ciało to narzędzie komunikacji, a w takim ujęciu „widzenie-czucie” wielozmysłowe odgrywa znaczącą rolę, ponieważ często rekompensuje niedoskonałą wiedzę naukową i braki w naszym myśleniu, otwierając nas na nowe sposoby świadomego „widzenia”. Autorka analizuje taki rodzaj postrzegania pozatekstowego i wielozmysłowego, a także pyta, co możemy dzięki niemu zyskać.
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This article opens a consideration around what the embodied, immersive and live exchange of live performance might make us feel and in turn how this multisensual engagement awakens the feeling body, specifically around notions of touch and shame. The discussion centralises the work of South African visual artist and performance artist, Gabrielle Goliath with a critical reading of Stumbling Block (2011/2017). In Goliath’s durational piece the body both of the performer and the audience member are carefully centralised in the production and engagement of the performance. The centralisation of the body in Goliath’s works points towards and facilitates an empathetic engagement during the performance as live event. Some points of departure in the article are how the performance curates relationality between bodies which offer potential affective spaces of touch. Furthermore, this multisensual “unspoken” engagement between bodies reminds us how the body is a communicative instrument. This contemplation therefore critically positions modes of multisensual “felt-seeing” which often fall into the “gaps” of academic spaces and thinking as central bridges in opening humans to new ways of consciously “seeing”.  I consider the encounter outside of text, the multisensual encounter, and ask what this might possibility necessitate.

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15

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1

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107-125

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2024

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  • Nelson Mandela University

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Publication order reference

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Biblioteka Nauki
31233967

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bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_18290_rkult24151_6
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