Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia: Poetics - Ethics - Politics, m. 2 DVDs

CONTENT Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia - Preliminary RemarksPart One: Before the Staging - The Aesthetics (or Poetics) of Staging a PlayI. The 'Poetics of an Arriving Artist'1. Creative homesickness as a motor for cultural transfer2. Elfriede Jelinek as an 'unknown' literary celebrity3. From 'intertextuality' to 'palimpsest'4. Re-framing 'relevance', re-focussing 'audience', re-naming 'actance'Part Two: The ProductionThe Materiality of the PerformanceII. DVD 1: Princess Dramas [Full Run]1. Credits2. Music and video projections in order of appearanceIII. DVD 2: Princess Dramas [Additional Material]1. Track descriptionsPart Three: After the Staging - Ethics (and Politics) of Staging a PlayIV. Staging Jelinek's Princess Dramas in Australia - Dangerous Decisions and Multiple Circumstances1. Artistic statement and ethical implications2. Theatre as a powerful place for 'radical democracy'3. Decisions and their context(s) - Staging Princess Dramas in Melbourne (Australia)4. The mise-en-scène/staging or die Inszenierung5. Ethical dangers - Violence and "the right thing to do"6. Policies, subsidies and necessitiesV. 'The Artist' as (Civilising) Leader or (Moral) Outlaw - The Self-Image as Theatre Maker at the Intersection of Philosophy, Law and Politics1. Relevance as a product of self-description - From the artist as representative of a universal entity to art as a social system2. The instability of democratic values - Self-censorship and artistic decisionsVI. A Conclusion and an Afterthought - Arriving as Palimpsestuous Process1. Conclusion: The role of the artist in liberal democracy2. An afterthought: Destabilising without erasingList of Works Cited

ANDRÉ BASTIAN studied Performance Studies and Spanish Philology in Melbourne (Australia) and Granada (Spain). He is a theatre practitioner (director, dramaturge, author, translator) and theorist and earned his doctorate at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia).