PERFORMANCE PROVOCATIV, TEATRU PROVOCATIV: INTERACŢIUNE ESTETICĂ
PROVOCATIVE PERFORMANCE, PROVOCATIVE THEATER: AESTHETIC INTERACTION

Summary/Abstract: The author directs her attention to an yet-understudied area of theatre science, namely the aesthetic interaction betweenthe provocative performance and the provocative theatre. The article sheds light on the conceptual coordinates of the performance placed among such artistic trends as Actionism, Conceptualism, Fluxus and Happening. Elements of performingarts infiltrated into the theatre long ago. And it is not just a co-occurrence within an artistic act, but an interference indeed.The provocative performance dispossesses the alternative arts of their distinct codes. First in the USA, then in Europe and eventually in the former Socialist Camp and the territory of the ex-USSR, the performance conquered the theatrical territory. This process has been accelerating since the dramatic theatre began to yield its positions to the post-dramatic one. Some of the overlapping points, which unite the performance with the spectacle in contemporary art, are followed in: the strategy of idiocyin provocative practices; the ready made; the corporeality; the pictorial.

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