Open AccessMaska jako aktorka
Author(s) -
Mirosław Kocur
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. prace kulturoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0860-6668
DOI - 10.19195/0860-6668.21.3.4
Subject(s) - scholarship , agency (philosophy) , performative utterance , subject matter , subject (documents) , relocation , field (mathematics) , order (exchange) , sociology , history , aesthetics , media studies , epistemology , art , social science , philosophy , political science , law , computer science , library science , pedagogy , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics , economics , curriculum , programming language
Mask as an actorThis paper proposes a performative analysis of a mask in order to research its agency, an active role in initiating world events. I will study four, in my opinion, basic “doings” of the mask: transformation, inspiration, transmission, and relocation. I am going to look at ancient masks as well as at Japanese, African and Asiatic ones. Of course, in a short paper the complete discussion of so complex subject matter is impossible. So, I will refer to selected case studies that most clearly expose the mask’s agency. I will use my own field research, my experience of directing plays and relevant scholarship — following a renown British social anthropologist Alfred Gell and archaeologist Ian Hodder.