In my master's thesis Pure and Undefeatable Presence, I analyze my performance Agmysterium, focusing on its temporality. I examine the theatrical strategies and reflections that guided our creative process toward achieving pure presence in theatrical form. I approach this from two perspectives central to the performance. First, I address genre of autobiographical performance and its dilemmas of truth, identity, body, and self-staging, intertwining my dual role as both author and performer. Second, drawing on historical and conceptual points of butoh, I present performative approaches and my methodology for establishing stage presence. I highlight the effects of butoh on the performer's body, connect them with temporality, and show that the body on stage is always a present phenomenon. Finally, through the interplay of the body's concreteness and spiritual potential, I reveal the fundamental ideas of Agmysterium.
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