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(Des)armant una genealogia: «Top Girls» i la crítica del progrés
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Aquest estudi provarà d’acostar-se a l’obra Top Girls, de Caryl Churchill, per examinar com, a partir d’estratègies dramatúrgiques, s’efectua una esmena de la noció de progrés que constitueix la base del relat d’emancipació capitalista del qual participa cert feminisme liberal o burgès. Es pararà atenció, sobretot, a les conseqüències que els pressupòsits d’aquesta noció tenen a l’hora de traçar una genealogia, així com en els elements que l’autora posa en circulació per fer patent les problemàtiques d’aquest model i les contradiccions que el sustenten. Finalment, l’estudi pretén mostrar com es pot exercir una crítica política des de l’àmbit de les innovacions formals, posant de manifest el lligam indissoluble que s’estableix entre ètica i estètica.</p>...
<p>This study will attempt to approach the play Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill, to examine how, based on dramaturgical strategies, there is an amendment to the notion of progression that forms the basis of the story of capitalist emancipation in which a certain liberal or bourgeois feminism participates. Attention will be paid, above all, to the consequences of the presuppositions of this notion when outlining a genealogy, as well as to the elements that the playwright puts into circulation to highlight the issues of this model and the contradictions that sustain it. Finally, the study aims to show how a political critique can be undertaken from the field of formal innovations, focusing on the indissoluble link established between ethics and aesthetics.</p>...
<p>This study will attempt to approach the play Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill, to examine how, based on dramaturgical strategies, there is an amendment to the notion of progression that forms the basis of the story of capitalist emancipation in which a certain liberal or bourgeois feminism participates. Attention will be paid, above all, to the consequences of the presuppositions of this notion when outlining a genealogy, as well as to the elements that the playwright puts into circulation to highlight the issues of this model and the contradictions that sustain it. Finally, the study aims to show how a political critique can be undertaken from the field of formal innovations, focusing on the indissoluble link established between ethics and aesthetics.</p>...
Análisis de la videoescena para la crítica social en el teatro intermedia de Agrupación Señor Serrano
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Este trabajo analiza la dramaturgia de la videoescena —el medio audiovisual insertado en las artes escénicas— en cuatro espectáculos de Agrupación Señor Serrano. La compañía emplea recursos como la captura y proyección ...
Contribuciones desde el paradigma de la complejidad al pensamiento estético relacional
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Tras sus primeros y precarios escarceos en los años noventa, la «estética relacional» necesita dotarse de herramientas intelectuales que nos permitan ir más allá de la mera celebración acrítica. Con ese animo, este ...
Dramatúrgies de l’emergència, dispositius relacionals i teatres d’invasió a l’escena balear actual
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>El present estudi analitza dues propostes escèniques, Krekovic camina i Un buco nella città / Una escletxa a la ciutat, desenvolupades durant el 2018 en el marc del projecte de recerca Arts escèniques al servei de la conscienciació social dut a terme per l’Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic de les Illes Balears (ESADIB). Aquest projecte es concretava en un treball d’investigació i creació artístiques on es feien visibles, escènicament, determinats sectors i àmbits relacionats amb el món del turisme que havien patit marginació i precarietat laboral. El treball consistia a crear propostes escèniques que donaven lloc a una recerca sobre la pròpia praxi teatral contemporània, jugant amb dramatúrgies invasores en els espais públics a partir de dispositius relacionals des d’estratègies participatives que donessin lloc a l’acció col·lectiva. Els dos dispositius tenien, per una banda, un clar objectiu de conscienciació social i, per l’altra, un objectiu experimental i d’innovació. Tot això va provocar una reflexió sobre la performativitat, la teatralitat i els components del joc dramàtic, especialment la funció activa de l’espectador.</p>
<p>Els dispositius presentats aconseguiren activar una potència transformadora de la realitat social a través de l’activitat artística mitjançant la invitació a convertir els espectadors en actors participants de l’acció realitzada: des de la defensa de la identitat d’un barri marginat fins a la intervenció i la subversió de la lògica urbana per lluitar contra la massificació turística de les ciutats, retornant al seu encant des d’una vessant poètica.</p>...
<p>The present article analyses two theatre productions — Krekovic camina and Un buco nella città / Una escletxa a la ciutat — developed during 2018 within the framework of the research project The Performing Arts at the Service of Social Awareness-Raising carried out by the Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic de les Illes Balears (ESADIB). This project resulted in a work of artistic research and creation highlighting, from a theatre perspective, specific sectors and fields related to the world of tourism that had suffered marginalisation and job insecurity. It consisted of creating theatre productions leading to research on the contemporary theatre praxis itself, playing with invading dramaturgies in public spaces based on relational devices from participatory strategies that gave rise to collective action. The two devices had, on the one hand, a clear objective of social awareness-raising and, on the other, an experimental and innovative objective. This caused a reflection on performativity, theatricality and the components of the dramatic game, particularly the audience’s active function.</p> <p>The devices presented managed to activate a transformative power of the social reality through the artistic event by inviting the audience to become actors participating in the performance: from the defence of the identity of a marginalised neighbourhood to the intervention in and subversion of the urban logic to fight against the impact of mass tourism in the cities, poetically returning to their charm.</p>...
<p>The present article analyses two theatre productions — Krekovic camina and Un buco nella città / Una escletxa a la ciutat — developed during 2018 within the framework of the research project The Performing Arts at the Service of Social Awareness-Raising carried out by the Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic de les Illes Balears (ESADIB). This project resulted in a work of artistic research and creation highlighting, from a theatre perspective, specific sectors and fields related to the world of tourism that had suffered marginalisation and job insecurity. It consisted of creating theatre productions leading to research on the contemporary theatre praxis itself, playing with invading dramaturgies in public spaces based on relational devices from participatory strategies that gave rise to collective action. The two devices had, on the one hand, a clear objective of social awareness-raising and, on the other, an experimental and innovative objective. This caused a reflection on performativity, theatricality and the components of the dramatic game, particularly the audience’s active function.</p> <p>The devices presented managed to activate a transformative power of the social reality through the artistic event by inviting the audience to become actors participating in the performance: from the defence of the identity of a marginalised neighbourhood to the intervention in and subversion of the urban logic to fight against the impact of mass tourism in the cities, poetically returning to their charm.</p>...
Editorial
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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El concepto de "lo real" en el teatro documento: «Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta», de Lucía Miranda
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Fiesta, fiesta, fiesta de la compañía The Cross Border Project, con dramaturgia y dirección de Lucía Miranda, es una creación generada con la técnica teatral verbatim. El texto dramático y la escenificación se basan en entrevistas a profesores, personal no docente, padres y alumnos de un Instituto de Secundaria. Esta obra se enmarca en un fenómeno, propio del teatro documento, que ha tenido una presencia significativa en la cartelera española 2019/2020: el uso de lo real en la escena. En este artículo pretendemos analizar este concepto y su uso como estrategia escénica, ya que condiciona la emotividad en la recepción para un fin superior: desvelar la problemática que se vive en la educación secundaria en España y promover la concienciación ciudadana ante ella.</p>...
<p>From The Cross Border Project company, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, written and directed by Lucía Miranda, is an artwork created using verbatim theatre techniques. The dramatic text and staging are based on interviews with teachers, non-teaching staff, mothers and stu-dents of a secondary school. This work is part of a phenomenon that had a significant presence in Spanish plays during 2019-2020 season: the use of “the real” on stage. This article focuses on analysing Miranda’s work through this concept and its use as a theatri-cal strategy, given its influence on emotive reception, with a higher purpose: to reveal the structural discriminations and difficulties experienced in secondary education in Spain and promote citizen awareness. In our methodology we mix theories on contemporary political sociology around the real and documentary theatre, as well as theory about the analysis of the creative process and of productions.</p>...
<p>From The Cross Border Project company, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, written and directed by Lucía Miranda, is an artwork created using verbatim theatre techniques. The dramatic text and staging are based on interviews with teachers, non-teaching staff, mothers and stu-dents of a secondary school. This work is part of a phenomenon that had a significant presence in Spanish plays during 2019-2020 season: the use of “the real” on stage. This article focuses on analysing Miranda’s work through this concept and its use as a theatri-cal strategy, given its influence on emotive reception, with a higher purpose: to reveal the structural discriminations and difficulties experienced in secondary education in Spain and promote citizen awareness. In our methodology we mix theories on contemporary political sociology around the real and documentary theatre, as well as theory about the analysis of the creative process and of productions.</p>...
El dispositivo y la programación del acontecer: para una arquitectura de la participación
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>En el contexto teatral europeo contemporáneo, la implicación del espectador como parte integral y decisiva de la realización escénica es una pràctica muy extendida, capaz de redefinir las teorías y las praxis del lenguaje teatral. La contribución material del espectador forma parte intrínseca a la escritura escénica, algunas veces en calidad de co-creador con los actores, otras veces como único creador y protagonista en el escenario.</p>
<p>El siguiente artículo propone una reflexión sobre el concepto y el rol del dispositivo en los espectáculos destinados a la fruición únicamente de los espectadores. El dispositivo, entendido en la concepción de Michel Foucault como —«cruce de relaciones de poder y de saber»— (Agamben, 2006: 7), cambia la escritura dramatúrgica tradicional: el dispositivo prevé la introducción de la actividad de programación en el ámbito escénico. Por consiguiente, el dispositivo constituye la dramaturgia del acontecimiento escénico, con la previsión y la organización del acontecer en cada fase, conciliándolo con la acción del espectador. Utilizando algunos dispositivos tecnológicos (tableta, auriculares, mandos, etc.), el espectador sigue las instrucciones y las preguntas, contribuyendo de esta forma a la realización escénica. En función de las formas del dispositivo, cambia la modalidad de inclusión del espectador en las dinámicas participativas programadas. En algunos casos la forma asumida por el diseño dramatúrgico es la de un complejo diseño con la construcción de una poética sensorial, espacial y del imaginario o con la reescritura de la realidad; en otros, la de la red que origina una arquitectura de la experiencia vivida por el espectador, único protagonista en el escenario.</p>
<p>A partir de estas reflexiones, se examinarán diferentes paradigmas participativos, para analizar cómo estas prevén modalidades específicas de relación: entre el espectador y la performance participativa; entre los espectadores; y entre el espectador consigo mismo. De cada tipología se mostrarán ejemplos específicos, que permitirán establecer una mirada extensa a los lenguajes propios de la participación y a las mutaciones que esta implica en los códigos lingüísticos teatrales.</p>...
<p>In the contemporary European theatre context, the involvement of the spectator as an integral and decisive part of the scenic realisation is a widespread practice, capable of redefining the theories and praxes of theatre language. The material contribution of the spectator is an intrinsic part of the scenic writing, sometimes as co-creator with the actors or as the sole creator and protagonist on stage.</p> <p>This article reflects on the concept and role of the apparatus in productions exclusively aimed at the pleasure of the spectators. The apparatus, understood following Michel Foucault, as a “set of strategies of the relations of forces supporting, and supported by, certain types of knowledge” (Agamben, 2009: 2), changes traditional playwriting: the apparatus provides for the introduction of the programming activity in theatre. Consequently, the apparatus is the dramaturgy of the scenic event, with the provision and organisation of the event in each phase, reconciling it with the action of the spectator. Using some technological devices (tablet, headphones, remote controls, etc.), the spectator follows the instructions and questions, thereby contributing to the scenic realisation. Depending on the forms of the apparatus, it changes how the spectator is included in the participatory dynamics programmed. In some cases, the form assumed by the dramaturgical concept is that of a complex design with the construction of a sensory, spatial poetics or of the imaginary or by re-writing reality; in others, it is the net, which originates an architecture of the experience lived by the spectator, the sole protagonist on stage.<strong> </strong></p> <p>Based on these reflections, we will explore different participatory paradigms in order to analyse how these provide for specific modes of relationship: between the spectator and the participatory performance; between the spectators; and between the spectator and him or herself. We will provide specific examples of each typology, which will enable us to establish a broad vision of the languages characteristic of participation and of the mutations that it involves in the theatrical linguistic codes.</p>...
<p>In the contemporary European theatre context, the involvement of the spectator as an integral and decisive part of the scenic realisation is a widespread practice, capable of redefining the theories and praxes of theatre language. The material contribution of the spectator is an intrinsic part of the scenic writing, sometimes as co-creator with the actors or as the sole creator and protagonist on stage.</p> <p>This article reflects on the concept and role of the apparatus in productions exclusively aimed at the pleasure of the spectators. The apparatus, understood following Michel Foucault, as a “set of strategies of the relations of forces supporting, and supported by, certain types of knowledge” (Agamben, 2009: 2), changes traditional playwriting: the apparatus provides for the introduction of the programming activity in theatre. Consequently, the apparatus is the dramaturgy of the scenic event, with the provision and organisation of the event in each phase, reconciling it with the action of the spectator. Using some technological devices (tablet, headphones, remote controls, etc.), the spectator follows the instructions and questions, thereby contributing to the scenic realisation. Depending on the forms of the apparatus, it changes how the spectator is included in the participatory dynamics programmed. In some cases, the form assumed by the dramaturgical concept is that of a complex design with the construction of a sensory, spatial poetics or of the imaginary or by re-writing reality; in others, it is the net, which originates an architecture of the experience lived by the spectator, the sole protagonist on stage.<strong> </strong></p> <p>Based on these reflections, we will explore different participatory paradigms in order to analyse how these provide for specific modes of relationship: between the spectator and the participatory performance; between the spectators; and between the spectator and him or herself. We will provide specific examples of each typology, which will enable us to establish a broad vision of the languages characteristic of participation and of the mutations that it involves in the theatrical linguistic codes.</p>...
El joc de taula com a performance. Reflexions sobre el procés de creació d’«El candidato (o candidata)»
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>A partir del procés de creació d’El candidato (o candidata), un espectacle basat en un joc de taula, em fixo en la performativitat inherent alsjocs i en com es pot traslladar al disseny d’un dispositiu escènic.</p>
<p>Tot partint d’Eiermann i Fischer-Lichte, exploro les similituds entre joc i realització escènica, i proposo aplicar el concepte de dispositiu a la comprensió de l’esdevenir teatral. Entendre una realització escènica com a dispositiu ens permet analitzar-la com un conjunt de relacions de poder entre participants, sense cap distinció a priori entre actants i espectadors*. Subratllo la dimensió tecnològica del dispositiu tal com el presenta Agamben, on les normes tenen alhora la funció de restringir i potenciar la llibertat dels participants. Aquesta dinàmica s’exemplifica paradigmàticament en la tensió dialèctica entre normes i incertesa que trobem en els jocs.</p>
<p>En resseguir les implicacions polítiques que se’n desprenen, aprofundeixo en una sèrie d’aspectes característics dels formats artístics participatius. Proposo una distinció entre un punt de vista representatiu i un de performatiu, així com entre game i play, i recolzo sobre el binomi formulat per Rancière entre política i policia per analitzar les relacions de poder en joc dins un espectacle, i detectar si els seus components lúdics s’utilitzen per generar espais de llibertat o per desplegar resultats pre-programats. A més de basar-me en la meva pràctica, comento peces de Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rimini Protokoll, LIGNA, Kate McIntosh i Mónica Rikić per exemplificar diferents graus d’agència dels espectadors.</p>...
<p>Drawing on the creative process of the El candidato (o candidata), a piece based on a board game, I focus on the performativity inherent in games and how it can be transferred to the design of a performance device.</p> <p>Through Eiermann and Fischer-Lichte, I explore the similarities between game and scenic realisation, and propose applying the concept of device to the understanding of theatrical development. Understanding a scenic realisation as a device enables us to analyse it as a set of power relations between participants, without any a priori distinction between actants and spectators. I emphasise the technological dimension of the apparatus as presented by Agamben, where the rules have the function of both restricting and enhancing the freedom of participants. This dynamic is paradigmatically exemplified in the dialectical tension between rules and uncertainty that we find in games.</p> <p>In tracing the political implications, I explore a number of aspects that are characteristic of participatory artistic formats. I propose a distinction between a representative and a performative point of view, as well as between game and play, and I rely on the binomial formulated by Rancière between politics and police to analyse the power relations at stake in a performance, and detect whether their ludic components are used to create spaces of freedom or to deploy pre-programmed results. In addition to drawing on my practice, I comment on pieces by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rimini Protokoll, LIGNA, Kate McIntosh, and Mónica Rikić to exemplify different degrees of audience agency. </p>...
<p>Drawing on the creative process of the El candidato (o candidata), a piece based on a board game, I focus on the performativity inherent in games and how it can be transferred to the design of a performance device.</p> <p>Through Eiermann and Fischer-Lichte, I explore the similarities between game and scenic realisation, and propose applying the concept of device to the understanding of theatrical development. Understanding a scenic realisation as a device enables us to analyse it as a set of power relations between participants, without any a priori distinction between actants and spectators. I emphasise the technological dimension of the apparatus as presented by Agamben, where the rules have the function of both restricting and enhancing the freedom of participants. This dynamic is paradigmatically exemplified in the dialectical tension between rules and uncertainty that we find in games.</p> <p>In tracing the political implications, I explore a number of aspects that are characteristic of participatory artistic formats. I propose a distinction between a representative and a performative point of view, as well as between game and play, and I rely on the binomial formulated by Rancière between politics and police to analyse the power relations at stake in a performance, and detect whether their ludic components are used to create spaces of freedom or to deploy pre-programmed results. In addition to drawing on my practice, I comment on pieces by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rimini Protokoll, LIGNA, Kate McIntosh, and Mónica Rikić to exemplify different degrees of audience agency. </p>...
El museo vivo: del mausoleo al parque temático
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Este artículo aborda la creciente aceptación del marco cultural de las artes vivas en los museos de arte contemporáneo a través del paradigma del museo vivo. Una tendencia que se ha generalizado durante la última década a través de exposiciones que incorporan la performance y la coreografía a la cartera de exposiciones temporales y actividades paralelas de muchas instituciones artísticas. La inmaterialidad, la temporalidad y la interacción directa con la audiencia de estas propuestas dibujan nuevas estrategias comisariales que cuestionan el medio espacial de la exposición, la lógica objetual de la obra artística y el estatuto del archivo como documento de la historia, situando el cuerpo y la acción en vivo en el centro del metabolismo expositivo.</p>
<p>Tomando como punto de partida estas exposiciones, el artículo reflexiona sobre la trama de mediaciones e inter(medi)aciones que han hecho saltar la economía mortuoria del museo vinculada a la función rememorativa del mausoleo, hacia una vindicación celebratoria de la vivencia asociada a la figura recreativa del parque temático. Para recorrer este accidente del paisaje tardomoderno se plantea una aproximación a la performatividad de las exposiciones de live art que combina una lectura topológica sobre las domiciliaciones del museo, con una lectura biopolítica y performativa que aborda las relaciones que tensan el medio de la exposición con el régimen experiencial y cognitivo del neoliberalismo global.</p>...
Estratègies artístiques d’una multitud comuna: la dansa des de la perspectiva d’Antonio Negri
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Estudis escènics: quaderns de l'Institut del Teatre. 2021, Núm. 46
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<p>Aquest article explora la relació entre la dansa contemporània i la teoria artística d’Antonio Negri, una relació des de la qual es reconeix la convergència entre dansa i política. L’anàlisi política en la dansa és un ...