Performance (Robert Morris revisited) by David Weber-Krebs

ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT? Looking at ART through the lens of THEATRE was a conference-festival organised by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that took place from 18-22 March, 2015 at theatre De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. Gabriëlle Schleijpen, curator in chief of the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited, Claire Bishop (art historian, writer New York), Claire Tancons (curator, researcher, writer New Orleans), Joanna Warsza (curator, Berlin) & David Weber-Krebs (theatre maker Brussels) to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day. March 20: ON ENCLOSED SPACES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS Curated and presented by David Weber-Krebs Usually people stepping into a theatre are of two kinds: the spectators and the actors. Spectators watch actors. Usually both are humans and things happen in the enclosed space of the theatre, where human bodies and words are predominant. Can we focus on the non-human, and abandon anthropocentrism? What kind of spectatorship can be c