CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

I. CLARIFYING BOARDERLINE CONCEPTS:
RITUAL, ENERGY, PERFORMATIVE AND GESTUS

Ritual and performance art
The theatricalization of ritual
The ritualization of theatre
Turner and “social drama”
Schechner and “performance art”

Energy and theories of the “third kind”
Body techniques, “pre-expressivity” and “recurring principles”
“Energy” in theatre anthropology
Analytical, production and third theories

The performative or how we make use of words in theatre
The (im)possibility of the performative in theatre
Drama and theatre: an attempt at a conceptualisation
Convention
Intention
Post scriptum de[r]riderum

Gestus: The visual in the discursive
Theories of the concept of gestus
Clarification of the concept of gestus
Gestus today: “A bearably anachronistic device” or “a strategic dispositif”?


II. THE APORIAS OF THE A/POLITICAL:
FROM EPIC TO POST-DRAMATIC THEATRE

Alienation policies: Brecht’s businessmen, historicization and post-Brechtian exercises in style
Brecht’s businessmen: Puntila, Šui Ta, Peachum
Alienation effect, actualisation and historicization
Post-Brechtian exercises in style (Horvat, Janša, Berger)

“The political” and the theatre that is not its double
Art in relation to ideology
Theatre landscape of the early 1990s
“Third generation” and the political theatre of the 1980s

Post-dramatic theatre and the politicalness of staging strategies
Why “post-dramatic”?
The performative cut
The politicalness of the post-dramatic


III. STRATEGIC DISPOSITIFS:
ART AND THE RULE OF LAW

Artivism
“Don’t happy, be worry!”
Actional corpography
Agitprop and guerrilla performance art
Psychopathology of everyday life
Moral panic
Security panic and artistic immunity

On artistic immunity, autonomy and subordination
“Definitional monopoly”
Creation, creating and self-creation
“Reserved faith”: All for Berlusconi
Fictional dispositif and excess theatre reality
Collision of intentions: Incasso
Autonomy and subordination

My name is Janša, Janez Janša
Excessive multiplication and excessive identification
Name as a trademark and a human right
ReadyNAME: ready-made and ready-named
Signature, Event, Context: Perfor(m)ation of memory
Experience of memory

Bibliography

Abstract in Slovene

Abstract in English

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgement

Ana Vujanović: Notes at the Edge of Interdisciplinary Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art (Afterword)

Index