Abstract:
This presentation brings into discussion the- still present- sovereignty of the mind over the body and its desire in the inner mechanism of production of theater today.
The presentation proposes some task-led exercises based in two aspects of my ongoing research: 1) the opposition between the concept of immanence and transcendent and 2) the body and its capacity to be affected and affect (mind-body-things). Taking as a source of inspiration the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza by focusing on his Ethics.
1)Immanence, It generally designates the feature of anything that has its principle in itself, as opposed to transcendence, which refers to an external cause, to a higher principle of explanation. From a transcendent perspective, the world is conceived as a creation, so that it is nothing without its creator. From an immanentism perspective, the world is itself a producer (rather than a creator) of itself, or a cause of itself, and we understand it better through philosophy or physics than through theology.
2) Spinoza argues: We are not conscious of our own body directly, nor of our own mind, but we are conscious of our own body by virtue of the affections produced in it by external causes and external ideas.
In other words, being a human basically means evolving in the midst of other human beings and things, by which we are uninterruptedly and immanently affected.
What means to be the author, performer and creator of a Solo-performance?
BIO:
RAUL VARGAS TORRES(1983). Performer, director and pedagogue from Colombia. His creations are a chaotic entanglement between body-movement, theater, visual arts and circus. Currently, he teaches movement research and acting at the MA- Arts of Theater in the Accademia Dimitri in Switzerland.