Abstract
In 2017 Janusz Bałdyga – a famous Polish performance artist - presented the Ephemera exhibition at Warsaw based gallery Propaganda. It consisted of several objects presented not as documentation, nor scenarios for actions, but as ephemera – performance-objects. Exploring the exhibition and artists thinking on the relationships of matter, performance, memory and forgetting as well as different theoretical contexts including classical Henri Bergson work Matter and Memory brings us to see ephemera as a particular category. Ephemera creates the possibility of re-inscribing matter in the performance studies horizon. Ephemera – as theoretical objects – show that our understanding of performance and memory can be pushed forward not only by acknowledging the body and its ability to remember but also by incorporating matter as not opposed to ephemeral acts and as always present in every act of remembering.
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