An Intermedial Cabinet of Obscurities
Media-Archaeological Excavations in Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21368420 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Kleczek (0000-0002-9499-1567), Jakub Kłeczek (PUH Team (Slovenia), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-20 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pamiętnik Teatralny (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0522 • E-ISSN: 2658-2899 |
| Publisher | Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.36744/pt.4840 |
| OpenAlex | W7136089820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article frames the essay-cluster Theatre, Media, and the Archaeology of Spectacle as an “intermedial cabinet of obscurities” and argues that media archaeology, paired with intermedial performance studies, enables theatre history to be rewritten as relational micro-histories rather than as a single developmental line. Drawing on Huhtamo’s genealogy of cultural topoi, Zielinski’s variantology, and Elsaesser’s fragments as epistemological probes, this text shows how the journal has long hosted archaeological gestures: studies of fireworks, moving panoramas, mechanical theatres, paper theatres, puppetry, and Raszewski’s reading of early peep-show boxes via Furttenbach. Methodologically, the article combines close readings of these interventions with an account of perceptual dispositives informed by Crary’s claim that vision is historically organized through shifting assemblages
Cabinet (room) · Excavation · Perception · Reading (process) · Spectacle · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Theatre and Performance Studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |