Fragmented Subjectivity: Environment as a Performer

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Fragmented Subjectivity: Environment as a Performer

TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza

Basic information

Original name

Fragmented Subjectivity: Environment as a Performer

Name in Czech

Roztříštěná subjektivita: Environment jako performer

Authors

TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza

Edition

5th EASTAP Conference. Theatrical Mind: Authorship, Staging and Beyond. Milano, 2022

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Fifth EASTAP Conference Theatrical Mind: Authorship, Staging and Beyond

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

Pierre Huyghe; hyperobjekty; instalace; Timothy Morton; posthumanismus; performance

Keywords in English

Pierre Huyghe; hyperobjects; living environments; Timothy Morton; posthumanism; performance

Abstract

V originále

How can we conceptualize subjectivity and authorship in performing arts in the light of accelerating technological development, environmental crisis and global pandemic? In my contribution, I would like to capture the ways in which the environment or even the planet itself can be understood as a performer. To illuminate the performative potential of the Earth, we need to abandon the idea of the planet as a blue-green sphere serving humans and other species as a temporary residence and a resource, but instead to try to perceive the Earth as complex networks of relationships between organisms and their environment, static elements and their variables as well as physical forces, evolutionary development, and the potentialities of other forms that the planet can acquire over a wide temporal horizon. Concepts and ideas of posthuman thinking may help understand how we can perceive nature’s processes, animal behavior and relations within the environment as a form of artistic practice, even though humans remain to be limited by their own definition of art and the aesthetic. On the case studies of Pierre Huyghe’s performative environments, I will showcase ways of rethinking the anthropocentric ideals of the human genius, the dominant position of the author and prejudicial concepts inherited from Wester art canon. In this line of thinking, art can then serve as a utopian space or a laboratory, in which we can act out and test alternative modes of being, and inhabit the planet in ways beneficial to all species, plants, minerals, water streams and other Earth’s agents.

Links

MUNI/A/1528/2021, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum divadelní kultury v interdisciplinárních přesazích III. (Acronym: DIVADLO)

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Fragmented Subjectivity: Environment as a Performer. In 5th EASTAP Conference. Theatrical Mind: Authorship, Staging and Beyond. Milano. 2022.

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TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Fragmented Subjectivity: Environment as a Performer. In \textit{5th EASTAP Conference. Theatrical Mind: Authorship, Staging and Beyond. Milano}. 2022.

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