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Copyright Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, GETEPE - Grupo de Estudos em Educação, Teatro e Performance Sep-Dec 2016

Abstract

In the words of Derrida: They rather highlight the issue itself which Artaud pretends to root out, that whose derivation, if not impossibility, he relentlessly denounces, that over which his screams have not ceased to break down furiously. Because what his howls promise us, articulated under the names of existence, of f lesh, of life, of theatre, of cruelty, is, before the madness and the play, the sense of an art that gives no place to works of arts, the existence of an artist who is no longer the path or the experience that gives access to other things but itself, the existence of a word that is a body, of a body that is a theatre, of a theatre that is a living text no longer at the service of a scripture older than itself, of some architext or archi-word (Derrida, 1989, p. 240). With these theoretical perspectives, we propose that the voice that emerges from the body of Trinidad comes charged with its own sense, almost as in a narrative parallel to the text, story or situation narrated, as it supports itself in its materiality-body and expands through the space reaching out in form of a vibration to the bodies of each one of the viewers-listeners as something prior to what is said, thus displacing, at times, the importance of the text content (the narration of the events) because of the channel material or its mere sonority. [...]as highlighted in Lehmann's earlier quote, we enter a place that is above identity and related to the recognition of a dimension much more human and invisible of the memory, an indescribable space we can access and that we can inhabit during the time of the performance, a space of existence that remains unexplored in the frantic contemporary world. [...]because given the fluidity of her pronunciation, it can be seen that the text has clearly been memorized and that what is being performed as an action is not to read the text as such with the goal of not making a mistake and of saying the precise words, but that in it there must be something related to what is being said, but that it seems to me closer to the musical form than to the theatrical form.

Details

Title
Resonancias Vocales y Memoria Sonora en Helen Brown/Vocal Resonances and Sound Memory in Helen Brown/Résonances Vocales et Mémoire Sonore chez Helen Brown
Author
Sölter, Andrés Grumann
Pages
481-501
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Sep-Dec 2016
Publisher
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, GETEPE - Grupo de Estudos em Educação, Teatro e Performance
e-ISSN
22372660
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1820580619
Copyright
Copyright Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, GETEPE - Grupo de Estudos em Educação, Teatro e Performance Sep-Dec 2016