LA CORPORÉITÉ TROUBLANTE DANS LE THÉÂTRE CONTEMPORAIN
| Title in English | THE DISTURBING PHYSICALITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Contemporary performance art is increasingly relaxing the traditional boundaries between subject and object on stage, disrupting the classical paradigm of the mimetic representation of man. In this context, there is a specific confrontation between two bodily entities: the actor's body and the puppet's body. This interaction opens up a new discourse on corporality, representation and performativity. The puppet as an intermediary entity destabilises the common perception of the natural and the artificial, the living and the mechanical. The relationship between the actor and the puppet is clearly asymmetrical: whereas traditionally the puppet has been understood as an instrument that imitates human movement, in contemporary theatre it is often the other way around - the actor legitimises his existence on stage by stylising and imitating mechanical movement. In this way, physicality is stripped of its biological evidence and presented as a construct. This performative situation creates an experience of alienation and self-reflection at the same time - the actor's body becomes a site for analysing and transgressing identity. In the puppet, then, it is possible to see not only a technological counterpart to the human body, but also its ontological projection, allowing us to consider the body not as a guarantor of authenticity, but as a means of representation. |
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