아카이브라는 극장: 2010년대 이후 한국 퀴어연극과 아카이브의 과제

Abstract

The practice of archiving Korean queer Theater has the character of an archivist intervention that critically approaches the structural causes of the imbalance in records. Queer Theater Archive can be a place where the absence of records and the impossibility of the extinction of the original are transferred to the possibility of interpretation and imagination. This article proposes to understand the archive as a theater in which the ghost of the original is repeatedly performed, and explores the tasks that follow the archiving practice through cases that have appeared in the Korean queer theater scene since the 2010s. Chapter 2 argues that the archive should be a place to interpret and interrogate the political and aesthetic context surrounding creative attempts to mediate queer and play, focusing on the “gender-free” play. Chapter 3 examines the dimension of ‘queer spectatorship’ that reads, transforms, and appropriates the work from a queer perspective. Instead of obeying the intended speech, the spectators project their own desires and makes the play queer. The archive must think about how to record such queer desires and imaginations that exceed the original. Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on the ‘trans-body’, which is formed in an affective way through synthesis and arrangement between heterogeneous bodies. The trans-body mediates the transmission from body to body and from performance to performance. The archive should contribute to broadening the horizon of awareness of the path through which queer theater evolves by paying attention to such creative transmissions.