everyday anew we have to answer the questions addressed by art with our own lives – Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н

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if we are to demolish the pretensions to art in a piece, what from theatre would be retained in a theatre minus art? Would it be like a formal occasion where there is the sense of exaggeration, in the ostentation of a social ritual? Perhaps Nicolas Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics