June 14-18 2023 . VI EASTAP Conference . AARHUS . DK
VI EASTAP CONFERENCE
AARHUS (DK)
14 – 18 JUNE 2023
DIMENSIONS OF DRAMATURGY
ErosAntEros participate to the VI Eastap Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, on June 14-18 2023.
The 6th Conference of the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance is hosted by Aarhus University’s Department of Dramaturgy and the ILT Festival of International Living Theatre Aarhus, in partnership with the IETM Plenary Meeting “Living at the Edge” (Aarhus 12 to 15 June 2023). Conference topic: “Dimensions of Dramaturgy”.
Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič participate to two events of its rich program:
– June 15 2023, h 14 -15.15, at Kasernen (Store Sal)
ARTIST LECTURE: Anna Franziska Jager & Nathan Ooms
Interpreting and staging the internet
chair: Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros
– June 16 2023, h 10.40 – 12.05, at Kasernen (room 212)
PANEL 32: IMAGINING DRAMATURGY
with Vanja Baltić, Carlo Fanelli and Agata Tomšič
chair: Daniele Vianello
Agata Tomšič will participate with the following contribution:
IMAGINATION AS A TOOL TO TRANSFORM REALITY
Starting from the Benjaminian idea of the dialectic image as a place where different historical times meet and allow us, for lightning moments, to read the present in a new way, combined with George Didi-Huberman’s interpretation of it to underline the intrinsic politicalness of all images and through it the revolutionary power of imagination, I will analyse the work of some contemporary theatre artists who, in a completely different but in my opinion similar way, use very refined dramaturgical and often imaginative devices to manipulate the collective imagination and the reality in which we live. Starting from the practices I have experienced in the work of ErosAntEros, I will reflect on dramaturgy as a tool through which to compare different orders of reality – through the technique of montage and quotation – as well as, as a political tool with which since antiquity the artist situates himself in and interacts with his own time, sharing some examples taken from the works and interviews given by Romeo Castellucci and Milo Rau. From the theatre as a place of the epiphany of images (and words) of the first, to the realism that allows “to penetrate into an image as in a daydream” of the second, tracing differences and similarities, I will reflect on the theatrical hic et nunc, as a place where everything is possible, even overturning the roles of our society and inventing a new one.
EASTAP23 Associate Artists
SIGNA
EASTAP23 Associate Scholar
Lola Proaño Gómez, Universidad de Buenos Aires
EASTAP23 contributions
Maaike Bleeker, Eugenio Barba, Yana Meerzon, Tim Crouch, Janek Szatkowski, Needcompany, Sonia Hughes, Jäger Ooms and others.
EASTAP23 ORGANISATION TEAM
EASTAP 23 is curated by the Aarhus University Department of Dramaturgy and ILT Festival
in collaboration with the IETM Plenary Meeting Aarhus.
AU Organisation Committee: Annelis Kuhlmann, Louise Ejgod Hansen, Thomas Rosendal Nielsen, Ida Krøgholt, Ulla Kallenbach, Julia Tonsberg and Peter M. Boenisch.
AU Chief Coordinators: Pia Burgaard and Betina Ramm (IKK Department Administrators, Kasernen), Pia Gjermandsen (website), Sara Bach Conijn (conference producer), Sascha Mai Jensen and Norma Nedberg Skretting (conference administrators).
EASTAP23 ADVISORY BOARD
Farnaz Arbabi, Unga Klara, Stockholm
Knut Ove Arntzen, University of Bergen
Synne Behrndt, Stockholm University of the Arts
Frank Camilleri, University of Malta
Rui Pina Coelho, FLUL University of Lisbon
Raphaëlle Doyon, Université Paris 8
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University
Seda Ilter, Birkbeck College, University of London
Christopher-Fares Köhler, Deutsches Theater Berlin
Bojana Kunst, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Florian Malzacher, Berlin
Alix de Morant, Université Paul Valery Montpellier 3
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Sargun Oshana, Blaagaard Teater Copenhagen
Milo Rau, NT Gent
Avra Sidiropoulou, Open University of Cyprus
Agata Tomšič, ErosAntEros / POLIS Teatro Festival, Ravenna
Karen Vedel, University of Copenhagen
Daniele Vianello, University of Calabria