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  • The avant-garde politics of time : the case of postgravity art
    Puncer, Mojca
    The author seeks an answer to the question of whether the 50-year post-gravity theatre project Noordung::1995–2045 by the Slovenian theatre director Dragan Živadinov (1960–) and his collaborators, ... visual artists Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič, can be described as a particular avant-garde politics of time. Using the concept of the »politics of time,« which refers to the temporal structure of social practices in their pursuit of change (Osborne), we discuss the temporality of the avant-garde in accordance with ruptural time (Benjaminʼs »now-time«) in its tension with the historical continuity of time. The text outlines the ways in which the consideration of time is an essential part of Živadinov’s work, particularly in his attention to the legacy of the so-called »historical avant-garde« in relation to utopianism (especially in Suprematism and Constructivism) and the pursuit of the future utopian moment of the »absolute now.« To this end, we attempt to demonstrate Živadinov’s affinities with both a particular Marxist, i.e. Benjaminian, and Nietzsche-Deleuzian (post-structuralist) concept of time. Special attention is given to the way in which a close examination of Živadinov’s work not only as theatrical but also as conceptual, trans-artistic, techno-scientific, socio-political, and philosophical, is essential to understanding some of his key arguments.
    Vir: The European avant-garde : a hundred years later (Str. 251-273)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2023
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 182672899
    DOI

Vnos na polico