The Performance of Void
Credit Points 1.5
Dates 8-9/10/2024
Core class for Second, Third and Fourth year.
*Students are required to complete 3 of Dafna's seminars during their 4 years of study
Prof. Daphna Ben-Shaul
Prof. Daphna Ben-Shaul is a senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University, head of the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programs unit of the arts, and head of the actor-creator-researcher track. Her research and teaching in theater, performance, and aesthetics primarily focus on civic and political issues, reflexive performance, empty performance, creative collectives, spectatorship and participation, spatial thinking, and site-dependent performances in Israel.
“The painting of the thought of emptiness is always a full painting,” writes Henri Bergson in his book Creative Evolution. Artistic Void requires a vessel, a medium, a material, and raises the question of how it is present and for what purpose – what cultural, aesthetic, and ideological insights can explain emptiness and void? Among them, black and white squares (or blue, pink, and golden), empty stages and screens, silences and stillnesses of motion, coverings of objects, erasure of figure, body, and subject, denial of the senses, and instances of blindness, representations of memory, forgetting, and death. We will examine artistic and performative phenomena, from the early avant-garde of the 20th century to the present day, characterized by an aesthetic of emptiness, and experiment with it.
Workshop including Discussion and practice
Tuesday, 8/10/2024 10:00-18:00
Wednesday, 9/10/2024 11:00-20:00
