TRANSGRESSION OF TABOOS IN POSTDRAMATIC THEATER. PRODUCTIVE AESTHETICS OF RISK

• Authors: NONOA Koku G.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This contribution analyzes Aristotle’s influence on the modern understanding of theater (based on the concept of the drama script) as a restriction and reduction of the potentiality of theater. Therefore, it presents a comparative analysis of the objectives of the antique theatrical practices around the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. (before Aristotle) and Schlingensief’s “Action 18, Kill Politic” (2002). It provides also a transcultural examination that helps explain the meaning of the postdramatic transgression of taboos, its productive aesthetics of risk, and its social and political potentiality. Thus, the performance “Action 18, Kill Politic” is analyzed as a process-oriented and experience-based aesthetic of risk as well as a ‘social drama’ in everyday life.

Keywords

EN

postdramatic theater; aesthetics of risk; social drama; performativity; potentiality

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 99-115

Contributors

author

NONOA Koku G.

• University of Innsbruck, Austria