물질적 기호로서 몸의 지각과 상상 -로베르 르빠주의 일인극 <887>(2015)을 중심으로-

Abstract

The contemporary theatrical performances, which are based on the performer’s behaviour and the eventuality, utilize the mediated condition of the play in various ways. These theatres, as the represented artistic form that uses the performer’s body as a medium, presume a co-existence to reshape the spatio-temporal reality through the perception of materiality. For this reason, in terms of the theatre semiotics, the extended value of the body, which is based on the circulation of generation and deconstruction, raises the question about the universal and single thinking system of the individual medium. This reflects the mutual subjective recognition on self, others, and the surrounding environment. For the case of this study, <887>(2015) by Robert Lepage(1957~ )’s autobiographical play is the play about the memory. Through the integration of the body, language and technological media, this play makes real objects ‘perceptive’, and simultaneously missing objects ‘imagine’. As a result Perception and imagination in the Lepage’s behaviour reveal the physical and sensory aspects that were hidden from the logical and discourse aspects. Like this, the perception and the imagination of materiality leading to the allegorical reason form the basis of explaining the theatre as the embodied experience because the intuitive intelligence allows experiencing the theatre itself, unlike the reasoning intelligence pursued by the reproduction of the textual based theatre.