Naslov
BODIES – exclusive and excluded, contextual and intertextual, aggressive and transgressive, living and death – IN THE INTRANATIONAL (counter-) PERFORMANCE

Autori
Blažević, Marin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Transnational - Intranational Re-imagining the Boundaries

Mjesto i datum
Hamburg, Njemačka, 13.08.2004. - 14.08.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
national; intranational; theatre; body

Sažetak
The introductory part of the presentation will shed light on the hegemonic theatrical practice that was (re)producing the whole range of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes flourishing in the Croatian recent history (unitarim, fascism, communism, nationalism, tudjmanism) by concreting theological stage (Derrida) and stipulating &laquo ; therapeutic&raquo ; realism (Lyotard), as mechanisms that are maintaining and stabilizing hierarchical relationship between elements and disciplined subjects/bodies in the representational situation. After a short insight into the historical context of the national renaissance of Croats in the nineties, the presentation will focus on the engagement of particular theatricalised political events and performances in the process of invention, legitimation and narration of the dominant – dogmatic, essentialist, xenophobic – concept of nation, national identity and body. How did the theatre – by means of direct (political propaganda) and indirect agency (theological stage and realism) contribute to the naturalisation of the nationalistic, authoritarian and autocratic regime, only recently dissolved in the so called second wave of transition? Second part of the presentation will focus on the counter-practices that are decided to resist, if not transgress, the aforementioned mechanisms embodied in dramatic, verbal theatre, as well as in political (state, national) spectacles. The paper will emphasize (dis)representational strategies of the performing body in the new, postdramatic, performance- theatre. Can the living/performing body – despite its socioculturally and politically already inscribed and invested corporeality – still expand the fractions and obstruct – or just call into question – the settled course of semiosis in order to open up the space/stage for experiments in transgression of normative (sometimes even apsolutised) social, political, economic, aesthetic discourses, institutions and boundaries of the intranational and transnational alike? Illustrative video material will be presented in order to explore the main counter-positions/actions/strategies which the body has taken in some representative performances of the new Croatian theatre of the nineties, questioning at the same time their visibility and effects of their appearance on the international cultural, particularly art – market.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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