SEMINAR Discussion – Goran Sergej Pristaš: Theatre by Other Means

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SEMINAR Discussion – Goran Sergej Pristaš: Theatre by Other Means 


Topic Tags: Apparatus white box watching showing modalities of translation

Thought experiment for 28.08.2020
Imagine a white box and fill it with rows of chairs until you fill the whole space. It is as if you create a space in which only watching happens. There are only white walls and there is no stage in the surroundings. How can you change the chairs and reorganize in order for something to happen even without bringing any artworks? What could happen at the stage of watching instead of the stage of showing? How does the difference between the place of showing or place of watching appear or disappear with these interventions?  

Discussion:

  • Gaze of inclusion and exclusion
  • The gaze and the logic of curating
  • 20th century: the emergence of the critical gaze which dissects things on the analytical stage
  • Logic of taking care of the work in relation to watching (curating): the gaze of one who knows more than the others and who’s always there to mediate that thing that is presented through the logic of interpretation, transparency or popularization
  • Institutions taking care of the spectator instead of the production of artworks/artists
  • Scenographic watching and iconographic watching
  • Peripheral gaze: control of what is happening laterally
  • Theatre: we watch with a gesture of watching (others watching us is also a part of our gaze)
  • Cinema: the body gets differentiated from the act of watching, gesture of watching is not so present


Goran Sergej Pristaš is a dramaturge, co-founder and member of BADco. (www.badco.hr), performing arts collective. He worked as a researcher and curator in the Centre for Drama Art (CDU) from 1995 to 2007. Associate Professor of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. He is also one of the initiators of the project Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000. With his projects and collaborations (BADco., Frakcija) he participated at Venice Biennale 2011 and 2016, Documenta 12, ARCO and numerous festivals and conferences. He was mentoring and teaching at DOCH (Stockholm), JLU (Giessen), Statens Scenekunstskole (Copenhagen), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), etc. Teaching courses in performance dramaturgy, writing on performance, analytical writing, dramaturgy and choreography, collaborative practices, and other. He was the first editor-in-chief (1996-2007) of Frakcija, a magazine for the performing arts. His latest book is Exploded Gaze (Multimedia Institute, Zagreb 2018).


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