Lease, Bryce (2023) Transembodiment as translation: staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive. In: Performance and translation in a global age. Theatre and performance theary . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9781009296816

Abstract

'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 dislodge from language, and which is both submitted to and escapes processes of mimetic representation. In this way, I do not with to consider transembodiment as a methodology but rather as a structure and a consequence of the process of transmission in the theatre.'