A estética da ausência na escultura cinética de Heiner Goebbels: reflexões sobre a teatralidade das coisas

Abstract

By suppressing drama, narrative, actors or musicians from the performance of his playconcert entitled Stifters Dinge, German director and multimedia artist Heiner Goebbels expands the boundaries that traditionally surround the idea of theatricality. This expansion, however, is not new and not uncommon in the universe of contemporary art, characterized by intercontaminations and hybridity. In the absence of human performers, Stifters Dinge seems to be both an installation, a concert and a theater, but all we have is things being themselves: things. From this work of Goebbels along with his concept of "Aesthetics of absence", this article proposes a reflection on the theatricality of things, seeking to understand how the space-visual elements of the scene, in their inanimate nature, can be identified as performative agents, with an implicit human dimension without necessarily acquiring an anthropomorphic character.