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April 17th, 2008

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THE LAST POSSIBILITY PRO

Piotr Gruszczyński

I came across the theories of Giorgio Agamben for the first time thanks to René Pollesch's theatre. When he brought his Hallo Hotel!... spectacle to TR Warsaw in 2006, Agamben was hovering above it like a ghost above waters. One of the themes underlying the discussion in the performance was an included in Homo sacer theory of the expansion of concentration-camp structure on the whole present day. Regardless of the discussed topic, the performance contained typical for Pollesch's language processes; above all, open aversion to the representation.