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Dorota Sajewska: Necroperformance: Theory as Remains
Necroperformance: Theory as Remains
(p. 125 – 142)

Dorota Sajewska

Necroperformance: Theory as Remains

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  • art theory
  • art
  • aesthetics
  • Theodor W. Adorno

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Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2016 to 2023 she was Assistant Professor of Interart at the University of Zurich and of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on performative arts, body anthropology and decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of numerous texts on performative practices, theories and archives, including the monograph Necroperformance. Cultural Reconstruction of the Body (2019) and the anthology Crisis and Communitas. Performative Concepts of Commonality in Art and Politics (2023). From 2008-2012 she was chief dramaturge and deputy artistic director of Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. Since 2019 she has been working as a dramaturge with Alexandra Bachzetsis. In 2024, together with Fabienne Liptay, she founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded – a platform for the transformative power of transdisciplinary thinking and art.
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Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), ...: Aesthetic Theory

There is no theory that is not aesthetic in a certain way. Adorno, too, did not understand his aesthetic theory simply as a theory of the aesthetic, but was aware of the aesthetic implications of theory. At the same time we have to do with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. So from both sides—theory and aesthetics—a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theoria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. The book examines this link and simultaneity, focusing equally on the aesthetic implications of theory and the theoretical implications of aesthetic events.

 

With contributions by Frauke Berndt, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sandra Frimmel, Julia Gelshorn & Tristan Weddigen, Fabienne Liptay, Dieter Mersch, Klaus Müller-Wille, ­Barbara Naumann, Boris Previsic, Dorota Sajewska, ­Sylvia Sasse, Rahel Villinger, Benno Wirz, Sandro Zanetti.

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