Stanca Scholz-Cionca



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October 5, 2009
Are the terms "interweaving/entwining" acquiring the status of key concepts in contemporary performing arts? Both terms (and others related to them, such as Brecht’s "visible knots" or Michel Vinaver's "interlacs" are increasingly felt as powerful metaphors, especially in connection to postmodern and transcultural practice, as they point to the discontinuous, fragmented, heterogeneous and processual character of the arts rather than to an alleged unity of monolithic structure, as implied in the idea of "Gesamtkunstwerk" or Peter Brook's "yoghurt culture" (both of which stand suspected of hegemonic thinking). "Interweaving", however, alludes not only to intertextual and intermedial connections, but also to intercultural links inherent in every performative event. read more