ArteActa 2020, 4
ArteActa 2020, 4:53-68 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.004
This article is an account of a lecture-performance presentation held in the context of "Contradictions as a Method," an international Bertolt Brecht symposium which took place in November 2019 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As three speakers engaged with theatre in different ways, we were inspired by the dialogical structure of Brecht's play Buying Brass and staged a similarly structured conversation. This conversation imitated and transposed the form in which thespians and the philosopher meet in Brecht's original text. However, we decided not to perform characters from the play, but to speak from our own professional...
ArteActa 2020, 4:7-26 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.001
In contemporary Western theatre and actor's training there is a tension between different traditions in the actor's work, concerning the bodily practices that are related to representation, construction of identities, authenticity and self-expression. One aspect of the actor's methodical tradition - the openness to suffering and sacrificing oneself in the name of the arts - will be displayed and scrutinised through examples from ancient theatre, European avant-garde and the Method acting tradition. I will argue that this aspect is aimed at exposing the artist as a unique original, and in this way also serves the commodification of the artist's self-presentation....
ArteActa 2020, 4:27-40 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.002
This article focuses on the re-entry and re-framing of the questions of class and classism in the context of contemporary discussions about intersectionality and the works of Bertolt Brecht. Starting with the observation that since the 1990s traditional Marxist categories like class have been less prominent in art and academic discourse than more contemporary concepts like "the political," I argue that a renewed understanding of class and classism is productive also in the context of Brecht studies. After discussing selected approaches to the concepts of class and classism, the article focuses on the processes of the political as well aesthetic institution...
ArteActa 2020, 4:41-52 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.003
The study takes Bertolt Brecht's short story The Job or By the Sweat of Thy Brow Shalt Thou Fail to Earn Thy Bread (Der Arbeitsplatz oder Im Schweiße Deines Angesichts sollst Du kein Brot essen) from 1933 as a starting point to discuss matters of gender and class between the two World Wars in Germany. Brecht refers to a true and characteristic event of that time when a woman was forced to take over her husband's working place after his death, unrecognized, in order to ensure the survival of her family. She becomes a man in all her habits and attitudes in public as in private situations, but society perceives her as a "monstrosity" - not least...
ArteActa 2020, 4
ArteActa 2020, 4:69-84
ArteActa 2020, 4:85-96 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.006
ArteActa 2020, 4:97-99 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2020.007
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