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The New Man is an exercise in active reception. After the shock of the First World War, the dissolution of subjectivity and the final breakdown of the bourgeois concept of art, very different artists looked for a new function for their art production, searching for a new relation to life and society. This modernist approach was later buried under the experience of Facism and the repression of Stalinism. The New Man is a performance without actors and stage. There is nothing to see except for the activity of the audience. Dispersed in the theatrical space, they are listening to a radio play, that not only deals with the four aesthetic positions mentioned above, but proposes gestures and movements according to the different blueprints of the new man. But the audience is not listening to the same things at the same time. It is split up into four groups. For fifteen minutes each group is listening to one of the positions, then their program is changing and their role is transferred to another group, while they are receiving a new position. In the end every group of listeners will have tested and quoted every attitude, gradually gaining insight into what is going on around them

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Music: Bertolt Brecht
Company: LIGNA