Speech
Aesthetics of revolt? Crossovers between politics and art in new social movements
Lecture by Hans-Thies Lehmann
afterwards discussion
The lecture considers three questions: to what extent do art practices, created in the context of contemporary social movements, reflect a further-reaching, fundamental transformation of the terms ‘art’ and ‘theatre’? What does the aesthetic of risk look like that becomes inscribed in practice but still regards theatre as non-political (because non-propagandist), a place for cautious self-reflection? Is it helpful in this context to make a difference between resistance and revolt?
Hans-Thies Lehmann taught Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main from 1988-2010. Guest lectureships led him to universities in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Krakow and Tokyo. He has published numerous books on contemporary theatre, on the theory of theatre and on aesthetic theory, especially Bertolt Brecht und Heiner Müller.
An initiative by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs