Fantastic Creatures in Performative Arts
Fantastic Creatures in Performative Arts

Summary/Abstract: People have always dreamed to have the wings of the birds, the voice of the nightingale, the gills of the fish, the power of the lion, a head harder than a helmet, legs faster than the wind. In their imagination, they have created strange, sometimes beautiful, but often terrifying creatures that are a combination of human and animal body parts, of man and machine: mermaids, elves, centaurs, harpies, golems, Frankensteins, Batmen, Catgirls, cyborgs.The text, which is a part of a larger investigation on posthuman bodies, examines the processes of fantastic creatures’ creation in performative arts.The artists producing non-existing, but already live images in front of us, reflect on important aspects of our live today, rambling between natural and artificial, real and virtual.As main empirical material for investigation are certain experiments in the field of body art, carnal art, physical theatre, prosthetic art, illusionism, etc. in Bulgaria and abroad.

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