“They have their exists and their entrances”
19. January 2012
Modes of Movement in Drama and Theater
The conference sets out to describe and examine the processes of entering and exiting as the basic representational operations in European theater. Therefore, it takes Shakespeare’s verse from As you like it, “They have their exits and their entrances,” as a rigorous formal directive. It is our goal to explore the technical as well cultural dimensions of the symbolic operation which Shakespeare takes to be defining the theatricality of life and world. Entrances are not only a factum brutum of theatrical practice but constitute the modes in which the emergence, visualization, and public speaking of figures, dramatic and otherwise, are organized. Simultaneously, entrances and exits can be understood as elementary cultural protocols which regulate coming and going, presence and absence, inclusion and exclusion not only on stage, but in manifold social contexts.
Thu-Sat, 19-21 January 2012
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8
10119 Berlin
Contact
Prof. Juliane Vogel juliane.vogel[at]uni-konstanz.de
Prof. Christopher Wild (Chicago)
A cooperation between the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social integration” at the University of Konstanz, the University of Chicago, and the ICI Berlin
- Files:
Programm_Exits_Entrances_01.pdf71 Ki