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The Artaudian Performance
Franziska Schroeder
School of Arts Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh
December 2003
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This paper is a chapter extracted from my forthcoming doctoral thesis on the body in performance. “The Artaudian Performance" follows a chapter entitled ”The Bergsonian Performance”.
The French dramatist, actor, poet and artist Antonin Artaud explored in its fullest the body as "site of all human transformation, liberation and independence"; (Barber, p72) the creation of a body without organs constructed as a revolt against the judgment of God. (Barber, p99)
In his “Theatre of Cruelty” (ToC, 1976) Artaud advocates the body as being able to stand-alone. For him all there is a body. “The body is the body, alone it stands” (Artaud, 1977, p59). For Artaud "man is badly constructed", and the organisms are enemies of the body. He goes further when he states that reality has not been constructed as the “legitimate organs of the human body are still to be composed and set” (ToC, 1976).
The body becomes forced into visual materialism. In his radio play "To Have Done With The Judgment of God" (THD, Sontag, 1976), Artaud, through sound, compels the visual body to absence. It is in that play that Artaud expressed that whatever enters and leaves the body, such as ideas and thoughts, excrements and "god" are excess organs.
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