Table of Contents

Introduction: Situated Knowing: From Performance Art to the Laboratory of Knowledge-Making, Ewa Bal and Mateusz Chaberski

Part 1. Knowing and Alternative Genealogies – introduction by Ewa Bal

Chapter 1. Slough Media, Rebecca Schneider

Chapter 2. The Performing Arts as ‘Cognitive Hybrids’: The Power of the Performatic Spiel-Raum, Fabrizio Deriu

Part 2. Knowing with Performative Arts – introduction by Mateusz Chaberski

Chapter 3. Dead Capital, Diana Taylor

Chapter 4. Beyond Presence: Performing the Limits of Knowing, Małgorzata Sugiera

Chapter 5. Performative Approaches to the Cultural Policy Field, Fabiola Camuti

Part 3. Knowing in Contact Zones – introduction by Ewa Bal

Chapter 6. Decolonizing Documentary: Wojtek Doroszuk’s Sape and Prince, Mateusz Borowski

Chapter 7. Beyond Ethnicity? New Architectures of Access to Local Cultures in Dorota Nieznalska’s Memory and Violence (2019), Ewa Bal

Part 4. Knowing Beyond the Human – introduction by Mateusz Chaberski

Chapter 8. The Shadow of a Pine Tree: Authorship, Agency and Performing Beyond the Human, Annette Arlander

Chapter 9. What Performativity Scholars Can Learn from Mushrooms: Situated Knowing in Polyphonic Assemblages, Mateusz Chaberski

About the Author

Ewa Bal is Professor in the Department of Performativity Studies at Jagellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and a visiting professor at Italian and Spanish universities. She is a member of EASTAP and IFTR, and the author of two monographs: Corporeality in Drama: The Theatre of Pier Paolo Pasolini and its Legacy (2006), In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella. Cultural Mobility and Localness of the Theatre (2017, soon to be published in English) and over forty papers in scientific journals. She has also edited Performance, Performativity, Performer: Definitions and Critical Analysis (2013), and Performance Studies: Territories (2017). She has translated and edited several Italian and Polish plays by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Emma Dante, Davide Enia, Annibale Ruccello, Enzo Moscato, Fausto Paravidino, Jan Klata and Michał Walczak. Her major academic interests are the cultural mobility of performance and theatre, minority language theatre and performance, translation studies, gender and queer studies, and (de)postcolonial studies.

Mateusz Chaberski has a PhD from the Department for Performativity Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. In 2016, he won a Foundation for Polish Science scholarship for innovative research in Humanities. His academic interests range from performance studies, affect and assemblage theories to Anthropocene studies. He is also Deputy Managing Director at the Jagiellonian University Press. In 2015 he published Doświadczenie (syn)estetyczne. Performatywne aspekty przedstawień and in 2019 Asamblaże, Asamblaże. Doświadczenie w zamglonym antropocenie.