Límits i limitacions del pensament europeu: El teatre contemporani com a espai habitable

• Diana González Martín ^[1]
  1. [1] Aarhus University

     Aarhus University

     Dinamarca

     
• Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 435-444
• Idioma: catalán
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  • Thinking about the concepts of limits and borders in the European Union nowadays inevitably leads to a more profound understanding of uprooting and disagreement.In fact contemporary theatre, in its transformative capacity for creating a community of actors and spectators and assuming the border as a habitable space, could be considered as a proper model for a conflicting European Union. The question if theatre andart can transform reality is still a complex issue but one that has gained increasing significance regarding the predominance of performance art in the last decades. Maybe the study of the humanities, understood as a reflection on the human being and their ethics, could be a bridge between the social and political situation in the European Union and the transformative power of theatre. Furthermore, rethinking humanities today may imply a reconsideration of art as a model for reality. Despite the disagreement, there arecommon sources of thought that support an until now common tradition in the European way of thinking and drawing the line: Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Draw the line around a rational «order» and essentially dialectical borders of systematization. Yet thelatest twentieth-century trends have chosen other ways: «chaos», hybridization and indefinable boundaries. The discourses of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatic Theatre and Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics constitute alternative approaches to the traditional theatre aesthetics and worldview in Europe.Assuming this paradigm shift, concepts and realities such as disorder, confluence, indefinition and hibridization of expressive forms lead to an understandig of the border that could bring concord to a Europe in deep disagreement