Enchanting the world on the example of East Side Story by Igor Grubić. A lesson on the aesthetics of performativeness Cover Image

Zaczarowanie świata na przykładzie East Side Story Igora Grubića. Lekcja z estetyki performatywności
Enchanting the world on the example of East Side Story by Igor Grubić. A lesson on the aesthetics of performativeness

Author(s): Anna Dzierżyc-Horniak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
Keywords: aesthetics of performativeness; performance; autopoietic feedback loop;

Summary/Abstract: In her The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetics Erika Fischer-Lichte argues that everything which happens in a performance can be described as a repeated enchanting of the world and transformation of all the participants of the event. The text is an attempt to consider the video-installation East Side Story by Igor Grubić exactly from this perspective. It discusses key concept categories utilized by the German theater researcher, and at the same time undertakes an attempt to fit them into the installation of the Croatian artist. The analysis points out to the bodily co-presence of the actors and the viewers, the performative production of materiality of the performance and the way in which the performance becomes an event. Questions were asked about a performance live as opposed to a mediated performance.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2 (26)
  • Page Range: 150-173
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish