Transgression of Taboos in Postdramatic Theater.
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Transgression of Taboos in Postdramatic Theater. Productive Aesthetics of Risk
Transgression of Taboos in Postdramatic Theater. Productive Aesthetics of Risk

Author(s): Nonoa Koku
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: postdramatic theater; aesthetic of risk; social drama; performativity; potentiality

Summary/Abstract: This contribution analyzes Aristotle‘s influence on the modernunderstanding of theater (based on the concept of the drama script) as arestriction and reduction of the potentiality of theater. Therefore, it presents acomparative analysis of the objectives of the antique theatrical practices aroundthe 6th and 5th centuries B.C. (before Aristotle) and Schlingensief‘s ―Action 18,Kill Politic‖ (2002). It provides also a transcultural examination that helpsexplain the meaning of the postdramatic transgression of taboos, its productiveaesthetics of risk, and its social and political potentiality. Thus, the performance―Action 18, Kill Politic‖ is analyzed as a process-oriented and experiencebased aesthetic of risk as well as a ‗social drama‘ in everyday life.