현대연극의 신유물론적 전환– 연극의 ‘탈영토화’: 가능성과 방향에 대하여*

Abstract

While many unusual problems are occurring all over the Earth, voices calling for a major change in human thinking have recently become louder than ever. The common opinion is that unless we break away from the human-centered thinking that has accumulated so far, the future of not only humans but also the world will be headed toward a terrible catastrophe. New materialism, which has been expanding not only to cultural theory but also to all fields of politics, society, and economy since the 1990s, breaks away from the framework of modern human-centered dichotomous thinking and views the world as a unique entity that encompasses everything. It is emphasized that it is a collection of unique entities encompassing both human/non-human and organism/non-organism. The world is originally a field of ‘Materials’ where not only humans but also countless beings who are equal to humans continuously form relationships. These proposals of new materialism shake the overall framework of thinking and behavior that we are familiar with. This paper seeks to find another ways for Korean theater to develop into new materialist dimensions, and above all, political dimensions in the sense of suggesting a direction for the future of humanity. In particular, specific performance examples show what kind of 'deterritorialization' needs to be carried out throughout the formal aesthetics of theater, including communication with the audience, in order fo theater to be able to summon the existence of various non-human substances beyond the material approach. I would like to present them and explore them together.