MA S. Performance/Culture/Media (Summer School) - Energies of Truth: Utopia, Sacrifice, and Performance (S. Aronson-Lehavi)

Dozent:innen: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Friedrich Michael Bachmann; Dr. Stefanie Husel
Kurzname: Perf/Cult/Media
Kurs-Nr.: 05.155.635
Kurstyp: Seminar

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches

Inhalt

With its etymological origins in the Latin word for root (radix), the term “radical” engenders two seemingly contradictory meanings: either having roots or departing from what is deemed to be traditional. Through a series of case studies—including, but not limited to the work of Adrienne Kennedy, Heiner Müller, Deb Margolin and Hanoch Levin—we look at religious “returns” in contemporary theatre and performance and examine how they relate the different meanings of “radical”. More specifically, the seminar asks how the “radical” performance of religious themes allows for a broader discussion about the ways in which notions of “truth” are constructed and problematized. Drawing on theoretical readings by Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou and René Girard, among others, we will explore these questions by focusing on sacrifice and utopia as two paradigms that are not only central to religious theatricality and performativity, but intrinsically bound up with a performance of and a belief in “truth”.

Termine

Datum (Wochentag)	Zeit	Ort
14.07.2015 (Dienstag)	09:30 - 17:00	Info-Box, Kreuzung Jakob-Welder-Weg/Johannes-von-Müller-Weg
15.07.2015 (Mittwoch)	09:30 - 17:00	Info-Box, Kreuzung Jakob-Welder-Weg/Johannes-von-Müller-Weg