The dangerous supplement that takes-(the)-place: Derridean reading of the 'folklore movement' in the Czech Republic
Abstrakt
An international conference on 'folklore revival movement' was organized in Prague in October 2017 as part of the collective project "Weight and Weightlessness of the Folklore: The Folklore Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Czech Lands". Following the screening of a series of artistically choreographed staged folklore performed by eight different Czech folklore ensembles, a discussion unfolded as to whether the performances still are folklore or not anymore.
The paper highlights and problematizes the main arguments of the debate and, using the Derrida's concept of supplement, reformulates the question: Why do the supposedly folklore-linked practices and discourses in the Czech Republic still need (to be called) folklore?
