Ihmishahmon tärähdyksestä

Authors

• Marja Silde

Abstract

In Viirus theatre's performance Toinen luonto the recognizible human form is destructed by separating one's speech from the body and covering the face by the human like mask of white European. In this essay, I analyze the experience and the production of live, non-live and presence by comparing the destruction of the human form with the experiments of the earlier avant-gardists. I also apply the postructuralist view concerning the relationship between speech and writing to explore the production and deconstruction the presence. Finally, I think over the experience of the human figure as non-live through the writings by Philip Auslander and Steve Wutzler and with the help of the division between the performance situation and the performance world suggested by Annette Arlander.