Impersonal Presences: tones of human in the landscape-scene

Abstract: Considered as an acting feature, presence is generally approached from the actor’s perspective. Disrupting this conception, this work intends to grasp presence as a relational, not a personal quality. For this purpose, two performances will be analyzed: Heiner Goebbels’s Stifters Dinge and Claude Régy’s Variations on death. Created as landscapes, both performances develop a non-anthropocentric aesthetics of the scene and allow envision presence as a perception phenomenon and from the point of view of the audience activity.