Staging in the Context of Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetic Laboratories

“Staging” has become a central concept of our societal reality. In this course, in addition to looking at various approaches to the processes of staging (Martin SEEL, Dieter MERSCH, Erika FISCHER-LICHTE), stagings created by the instructor with the DanceMusicTheaterLaboratory at the University Mozarteum will be discussed and their specific parameters – from interactive impulse dramaturgy to the staging of non-staging – will be investigated on the basis of years of documentation work. These investigations will be supplemented by reflections on philosophical, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects in the context of other open stagings. If the participants wish to do so, selected examples of event impulses will be used as a point of departure for scenic work in the form of short joint projects.

Required reading

FISCHER-LICHTE, Erika: Ästhetik des Performativen. Ch. 7.1 Inszenierung
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 318–332
MERSCH, Dieter: Ereignis und Aura. Ch. III „Vom Werk zum Ereignis“
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2002, pp. 157–244
SEEL, Martin: Inszenieren als Erscheinenlassen. Über die Reichweite eines Begriffs
In: FRÜCHTL, Josef: Ästhetik der Inszenierung
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2001, pp. 48–62