Escape into nature!

Autor(en)
Adam Czirak
Abstrakt

Adam Czirak explores Czechoslovakian performance artists who set up their studios in nature, making the landscape, a sphere not fully appropriated by society, the preferred site of their artistic practice. Czirak argues that by withdrawing from the everyday world and from concrete political issues, all movements that encourage an escape into nature bear the traces of a politics of melancholia. He questions how melancholic gestures of art production open up a critical dimension through scenographies of disappearance: the oppressed artists find spaces that cannot be censored, places where they are free to become productive and communicate in unusual ways.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Seiten
151-163
Anzahl der Seiten
13
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315193106-12
Publikationsdatum
01-2018
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
604029 Theaterwissenschaft
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/fd93796f-94c1-4331-be03-25e0d73420ba