Collectives, communities and non-hierarchical modes of creation from the 1970s till the 1990s

Toporišič, Tomaž (author)

Within the twenty-year period that coincides with the first twenty years of the Glej Theatre, the essay concentrates on the formation and transformations of non-hierarchical theatre communities, or, in the words of one of its founders, Dušan Jovanović, theatrical tribes. Using historical and present-day examples, the author will try to map the specific devised theatrical procedures producing what Badiou names "a generic vacillation": "Theatre turns every representation, every actor's gesture, into a generic vacillation so as to put differences to the test without any supporting base. The spectator must decide whether to expose himself to this void, whether to share in the infinite procedure. He is summoned, not to experience pleasure (which arrives perhaps 'on top of everything', as Aristotle says) but to think" (Rhapsody, 124). The essay strives to answer the following questions: How did the Slovenian experimental and non-institutional performing arts scene (as a reaction to the hierarchical structure of repertory theatres) create different non-hierarchical modes in relation to creating the performances, the theatre's artistic direction and forming temporary communities with emancipated audiences? To which models did this scene turn - then and today - to develop its own logic of devised and collaborative theatrical tactics? And lately: To what extent have those different artistic collaborative tribes changed the theatrical landscape in Slovenia, Yugoslavia and elsewhere?

• Language: English
• Keywords: artistic collective, performative turn, neo-avant-garde, experimental theatre, non-institutional art
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: AGRFT - Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 18-51
• Numbering: Letn. 9, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154886
• UDC: 792.07(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 1855-4539
• DOI: 10.51937/Amfiteater-2021-1/18-51
• COBISS.SI-ID: 68126211

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 07.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Amfiteater : revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti = journal of performing arts theory
• Publisher: Slovenski gledališki inštitut, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo
• ISSN: 1855-4539
• COBISS.SI-ID: 239685632

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Kolektivi, skupnosti in nehierarhični načini ustvarjanja od sedemdesetih do devetdesetih let 20. stoletja

Abstract

Razprava v razdobju tridesetih let, ki sovpadajo tudi z obstojem Gledališča Glej razišče oblikovanje in preoblikovanje nehierarhičnih gledaliških skupnosti oziroma - z besedami enega od ustanoviteljev Gledališča Glej Dušana Jovanovića - gledaliških plemen. Na podlagi preteklih in sodobnih primerov bomo poskušali izrisati zemljevid tistih praks ustvarjanja avtorskega gledališča, ki jih Badiou poimenuje splošna nihanja. "Resnično gledališče vsak nastop, vsako igralčevo gesto spremeni v splošno nihanje, v katerem so dovoljene razlike brez osnove. Gledalec se mora odločiti, ali se prepusti tej praznini in sodeluje v neskončnem postopku. Ni pozvan k užitku [...], pač pa k razmišljanju" (Rhapsody 91, 92). Poskušali bomo poiskati odgovore na naslednja vprašanja: kako je slovenska eksperimentalna in nevladna gledališka scena (kot reakcijo na hierarhične strukture repertoarnih gledališč) ustvarila različne moduse nehierarhije v okvirih performansov, umetniških vodenj gledališč in oblikovanj začasnih skupnosti z emancipiranimi gledalci; katere modele je ta scena uporabljala in katere uporablja danes za razvoj lastne logike avtorskih in skupnostnih gledaliških taktik; in nazadnje, koliko so ta različna umetniška skupnostna plemena spreminjala in še spreminjajo gledališko krajino v Sloveniji, Jugoslaviji in drugod?

• Keywords: umetniški kolektivi, performativni obrat, neoavantgarda, eksperimentalno gledališče, neinstitucionalna umetnost

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0376
• Name: Gledališke in medumetnostne raziskave