ArteActa 2021, 5
ArteActa 2021, 5
ArteActa 2021, 5:7-51 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2021.001
The article "The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel's Greengrocer" opens by examining the genre of Havel's famous essay establishing, in this respect, its striking homology with Marx's and Engels's Communist Manifesto whose first and last sentence Havel quotes in his text. Their common denominator is the genre "revolutionary manifesto" conceived as a performative speech act asserting a perlocutionary effect without being de facto vested with any true authority to do so. The rest of the paper focuses on the hero of "The Power of the Powerless" - the manager of a fruit and vegetable store - portrayed by Havel as a passive tool...
ArteActa 2021, 5:53-84 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2021.002
This study examines the potential of virtual reality (VR) as an environment for the creation of sound art. Based on the correlation of texts from New media theory and musicology, it places sound art in a virtual environment in the wider theoretical and historical context. Based on these, it tries to define the term more specifically and explore possible determinants of considering certain piece as a VR piece (interactivity, tools/instruments and interfaces and the methods of their use, their psycho-physiological impact, etc.). In this context and based on the examples of the analysis of certain works - Alexandra Cihanská Machová: Psalm, Marko...
ArteActa 2021, 5:85-110 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2021.003
The paper aims to propose a basic theoretical framework for the discussion of acting in nonverbal theatre. Its author follows Helmuth Plessner's anthropologically focused philosophy, delineates general modes of human behavior as well as its specific visuality. The second part of the paper deals with the opposition and duality of mimesis and performance and their manifestations in nonverbal theatre. As an introduction to acting it strives to outline theoretical prerequisites for the research of various acting techniques in nonverbal theatre.The paper is the introductory study of the Encyclopedia of Nonverbal Theatre, in preparation under...
ArteActa 2021, 5:143-154 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2021.007
ArteActa 2021, 5:111-122
Michel Chion (1947) is a French film critic and composer. His career began as an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970, at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), which also led him to collaborate with the French journal Les Cahiers du Cinéma between 1982-87. This practice, together with his interest in perception and the arrival of the videotape, triggered a book trilogy on sound in film: La voix au cinema (1984; published in English as The Voice in Cinema in 1999) in which he analyses the hierarchy of voice in the soundtrack ("vococentrism"); Le son au cinema (1985, in English as Film, a Sound Art in 2003), where he continues to access human language...
ArteActa 2021, 5:123-130
ArteActa 2021, 5:131-142
ArteActa 2021, 5:155-165 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2021.008
ArteActa 2021, 5:166-168
