THE LIQUID ACTOR
"Progress has turned into a sort of endless and uninterrupted game of musical chairs in which a moment of inattention results in irreversible defeat and irrevocable exclusion. Instead of great expectations and sweet dreams "progress" evokes insomnia full of nightmares of being left behind - of missing the train, or falling out of the window of a fast accelerating vehicle."
Zygmunt Bauman "Liquid Time: living in an age of uncertainty", P. 10-11, Polity Edition
The concept of liquid modernity was coined by the sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman as a metaphor to describe the condition of constant mobility and change he sees in relationships, identities, and global economics within contemporary society.
Fragility, temporariness, vulnerability, and inclination to constant change. To be modern means to modernize. compulsively, obsessively; not so much just "to be", let alone to keep its identity intact, but forever "becoming", avoiding completion, staying underdefined.
Change is the only permanence, and uncertainty is the only certainty.
Uncertainty and precarity become part of our life, even more in the artistic field.
Can we talk about a new shape of actor, which I name the LIQUID ACTOR?
Zygmunt Bauman "Liquid Time: living in an age of uncertainty", P. 10-11, Polity Edition
The concept of liquid modernity was coined by the sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman as a metaphor to describe the condition of constant mobility and change he sees in relationships, identities, and global economics within contemporary society.
Fragility, temporariness, vulnerability, and inclination to constant change. To be modern means to modernize. compulsively, obsessively; not so much just "to be", let alone to keep its identity intact, but forever "becoming", avoiding completion, staying underdefined.
Change is the only permanence, and uncertainty is the only certainty.
Uncertainty and precarity become part of our life, even more in the artistic field.
Can we talk about a new shape of actor, which I name the LIQUID ACTOR?
- HOW IS THE ACTING PROCESS AFFECTED BY THE LIQUID MODERNITY OF OUR TIME? HOW DO THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AFFECT AN ACTOR'S LIFE ON AND OFF STAGE?
- HOW DOES OUR LIQUID LIFE AFFECT THE THEATRE PEDAGOGY? I EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF WAITING ROOMS AND WAITING TIME IN THEATRE PEDAGOGY
- WAITING ROOMS AND WAITING TIME IN PERFORMANCE
