Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is a perfect example of the discrepancy between art’s subversiveness and its autonomy. Despite the discrepancy, both phenomena have the same background: “The arts only ever lend to projects of domination or emancipation what they...
Someone dared to reveal an open secret: (post)dramatic theatre is boring. Florence Dupont did just that.1 The writing you are reading is a set of associations triggered by this spectacular revelation; spectacular not only because of its breaking effect, but also in a...
Evharistija je dejanje izrekanja hvaležnosti med zbiranjem verujočih v nekem skupnem prostoru in prvotno ni bila povezana s cerkvijo kot fizičnim objektom … Rituala, praznovanja in skupnosti ni (bilo nikoli) mogoče zapakirati v gledališko embalažo, kar je posebej...
Our paradise is technological one, since almost all dimensions of human existence on Earth rely on the development of technologies—of food, housing, transportation, education, medication, communication, warfare, entertainment, oppression, virtual democracy, replacing...
Film Peter von Kant1 directed by François Ozon (France, 2022, 85 minutes) is an interesting interpretation of Fassbinder’s Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (West Germany, 1972, 124 minutes). With the switch of sex (sometimes called gender) of the personal name...
Back to Marcel Duchamp, specifically to an event related to the first public presentation of his ready-made creation entitled Fontaine. Was that event actually a missed opportunity to make a rupture in usual order, to cause—having Jacques Rancière’s idea in mind—“the...
Performing one‘s desire, dancing it, singing it, exchanging and expressing it in an ambience that allows living presence of a community, thus feeling and living it—it is a thought in action, a happening, a hybrid of an outburst and a rupture, it is a trans-situation,...
Giving up the Fight Mode. Marcel Duchamp‘s Experiment with Chance Marcel Duchamp‘s practice and visual language is interesting for two seemingly incompatible reasons. Firstly, because the artist via his works commented neutralization of art (by neglecting the rules...