Fearless Art in the Age of Fear: Electronic Disturbance Theater's Parrhesian Gestures

• Autores: Ricardo Dominguez
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The fear of art), págs. 107-113
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At the core of the performative matrix of Electronic Disturbance Theater 1.0 and 2.0 has been the parrhesian gesture. While Foucault�s analysis focuses mainly on parrhesia as �fearless speech,� our work has and does explore fearless art. Our parrhesian gestures create an art that is not concerned directly with the �care of the oneself,� but instead focuses on the care of the social, of the public agora, or what is left of it under the signs of neo-liberalism(s)�almost total privatization of life and the spaces of life. While the parrhesiastes� courage places them in danger and even at risk of death for speaking the truth to power, the parrhesian gesture of fearless art creates a space for power to speak the un-truth of its uncaring condition for all social-selves.