[OBSCENE]
/ Dramaturgy as Praxes of making (in)visible
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The many deaths in old Greece’s antique drama occured ob-scenae, depicting a place beyond the scene and/or seen. Yet despise their placement, the dead weren’t marginal or of no importance, quite on the contrary. Core motive to this conference is the figure of thought of the obscene as that which unfolds OFF stage both concretely and as such as well as figuratively and metaphorically. Postdramatic and possibly post-dramaturgical procedures of knowledge production adress the not-shown, the un-seen, the hidden, the in-visible and the many ways of how things are situated [ OFF THE RECORD ].
obscene {adj}; offensive, lustful, disgusting, repulsive, dirty, raunchy, salacious, corrupt, shameless, frivolous, fescennine, lewd, profane, indecent, excessive, beyond all reason
Since the 1990s and with the development of the performative, understandings of dramaturgy have pluralized and changed. This assumption serves as a starting point for [ OBSCENE ] which aims to explore where and how dramaturgy occurs – as an amalgamation of practices, relationships and positionings between people, institutions, rehearsal spaces, performances, temporalities and artistic strategies. The conference will bring together theatre and dance practitioners, students and interested members of the public, in order to discover, develop, reflect on and celebrate the art and dramaturgies of [ OBSCENE ].
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