| Heiner Goebbels, German composer, lecturing on the aesthetics of absence. During the lecture, Heiner Goebbels, discusses the role of the spectator, his involvement and inscription into the scene, and the deconstruction of the traditional co-ordinates of theatre, opera, and performance art, in order to reveal the effects of gaps, inundation, silence and conflict. The result, is what he calls experimental theatre music. Over the course of the lecture, Goebbels shows a number of clips from his works -- in order to materialize his remarks -- including the 1998 performance 'Black and White'. Goebbels also discusses the actor -- his involvement, distinction from and collapse into the other elements of a performance, moreover, Goebbels discusses the separation of the actor from the set, narrative and even his own voice. Over the course of the lecture, Goebbels touches on the works of Heiner Miller, Bertolt Brecht, Holderlin, Hanns Eisler, Gertrude Stein and others. European Graduate School EGS |
