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Of the Body and Flesh: The Animals of Romeo Castellucci
Of the Body and Flesh: The Animals of Romeo Castellucci

Author(s): Marcelina Obarska
Contributor(s): Lynn Suh (Translator)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: animal; Castellucci; relationality; materialism; post-anthropocentrism

Summary/Abstract: The author takes a critical stance against director Romeo Castellucci’s powerful self-narrative. Her skepticism toward Castellucci’s trademark poetic reveals the materialist dimension of his theatre, in light of which such notions as relationality, indiscernibility, simple observation, and giving ground to an animal were revitalized and led to an open, unhampered directorial discourse, in a “thinking-out-loud” style of analysis. The article joins post-anthropocentric thought inspired by Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida’s gentleness toward animals, and Deleuze’s take on the work of art in all of its relational complexity.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: English-3
  • Page Range: 121-143
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English