What does contemporaneity mean in theatre? Cover Image

Ce înseamnă contemporaneitatea în teatru?
What does contemporaneity mean in theatre?

Author(s): Ivan Vîrîpaev
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Sociology of Culture, Conference Report, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: conceptual art; emotion; consumer; fundamentalism; liberalism; reconciliation; presence;

Summary/Abstract: The target of the contemporary theatre consists in 'touching' the audience. To communicate is the very purpose of art in general, but also of visual arts, and of the conceptual performances in the manner of Ostermeier, Warlikowski, Lupa. The essence is the processus of passage beyond artisticity, beyond the performative space, the electrization of the audience’s conscience. In the same time, the contemporary theatre must be regarded in connection to the recent theatrical methods which produce theatricality (the technology, video art, etc). The 21st century art is continuously redefined through the technique of producing meaning, emblematic for the postmodern phase when the 'criteria have vanished'.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 12-17
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian