Feledés
Oblivion
Author(s): Sarah VanheeContributor(s): Attila Seprődi (Translator)
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Drama
Published by: Játéktér Egyesület
Keywords: Sarah Vanhee;Oblovion;performance text;
Summary/Abstract: In our winter issue we publish the text of Oblivion, the performance created by Belgian artist Sarah Vanhee. The performance premiered in 2015 at the CAMPO in Gent, having since toured different festivals, such as TESZT at Timisoara in 2017. Sarah Vanhee gathered her real and virtual garbage for a whole year in order to use it in a performance: it is a story of the slow unpacking on stage of this garbage that is revealed through the monologue of the performer, enriched with allusions and quotes. Oblivion is about lost and rediscovered things, about the foggy line between valuable and worthless, property or not, useful and useless, dirty or not, in fact about the abject itself. Eventually, Vanhee’s performance explores the politics of validation and its role of creating a subject, placed on stage in the context of the consumer society where it questions even the role of the artist and the gestures of creation.
Journal: Játéktér
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 65-91
- Page Count: 27
- Language: Hungarian
- Content File-PDF