TOWARDS A PLURIVERSAL EUROPE? THE PERFORMANCE DISPAK DISPAC'H – CRÉPUSCULE EUROPÉEN FROM PATRICIA ALLIO AND HER CO-CREATORS AS A SHIFT FROM THE UNIVERSALIST MONOLOGUE TO PLURIVERSALIST DIALOGUES
TOWARDS A PLURIVERSAL EUROPE? THE PERFORMANCE DISPAK DISPAC'H – CRÉPUSCULE EUROPÉEN FROM PATRICIA ALLIO AND HER CO-CREATORS AS A SHIFT FROM THE UNIVERSALIST MONOLOGUE TO PLURIVERSALIST DIALOGUES

Summary/Abstract: This article dreams and thinks the hypothesis of a utopian “pluriversal Europe” thanks to the study of the “agora-performance” Dispak Dispac’h – Crépuscule européen from Patricia Allio and her friends, colleagues and comrades. To explore Dispak Dispac’h – European Twilight’s pluriversalist aesthetics and politics, the paper investigates two directions. First, it outlines the concepts of “Pluriverse” and “pluriversalism” as a theoretical framework, examining the “ontological turn” in philosophy and anthropology, its political implications, and – briefly – some critiques of this current. In a second part, the aesthetics of the “agora-work of art” Dispak Dispac’h – European Twilight is analysed as an antidote to “monological universalism”, enabling to sketch out pluriversalist dialogues, and Dispak Dispac’h – European Twilight’s “artivist” approach is established as a way of overcoming the modern dualisms between art and life and between artworks and social struggles – even beyond the limits of twentieth-century documentary theatre –, and contributing to the emergence of a new, “pluriversal” Europe .

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