Ciclo 2017-2018
17/05/2018 18 Horas - Auditório 2, Torre B
Mauricio Carrasco
Melburn University
"Hysteria and trauma as constitutive elements in contemporary Monodrama"
(Artistic Research and practice-as-research in the field of music theatre)
This lecture/recital examines how text and music articulate to create an alienated character that suffers trauma and hysterical symptoms, similar to those that Freud and Breuer described in their Studies on Hysteria. Just like the late nineteenth-century Leçons de Mardi, where Dr. Charcot staged hysteria through his most prominent patient Augustine, the performance of Georges Aperghis Fidelité, transcribed from a female harpist performer into a male guitarist opens this lecture/recital, analysing how hysteria has been historically associated to women Monodrama's tradition.
The lecture/recital will end by the performance of one of collaborations: James Rushford's Egyptian Love Poem in Nihilist Cipher.
Organizado por Isabel Pires e o Grupo de Investigação em Música Contemporânea do CESEM.
