
handle: 11104/0368569
The study focuses on the experimental work of Jiří Adámek, representing one strand of his theatre and radio directing and writing. Inspired by the radio play Splitting (Spaltungen, 1969) by Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker, Adámek's theatre production Ticks Ticks Politics (Tiká tiká politika) was released in 2006. He then collaborated with the Boca Loca Lab group on the production Europeans (Evropané, 2008), and since 2016 he has been creating a trilogy for the senses: It Will End with the Mouth (skončí to ústa, 2016), Playing on the Ears (Hra na uši, 2018) and Eyes Up (Oči v sloup, 2019). The first part, skončí to ústa, was created as a graduation production by students of the KALD DAMU. Hra na uši is an abstract radio composition of sound and music, which Adámek classifies as verbal radio art. It is a formalised, abstract verbal score. On the one hand, it emphasises the materiality of words and sounds, on the other, it emphasises the linguistic structure of language and language as a system. In Oči v sloup (Eyes Up), the focus is on sight and the moment of observation. The audience also becomes the object of observation. In this way, Adámek draws inspiration from the Austrian literary cabarets of the Vienna Group and Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience (Publikumsbeschimpfung, 1966). Adámek seeks to abolish the attributes of traditional drama and representational theatre. Not only does he abandon characters and storylines, but also the principle of mimesis — imitation and symbolic representation. The fictional world of his works thus merges with speech, sounds and noises while simultaneously existing at the level of abstract concepts, ideas and linguistic systems.
theater and radio experiment, radio art, Ernst Jandl, Jiří Adámek, trilogy for the senses
theater and radio experiment, radio art, Ernst Jandl, Jiří Adámek, trilogy for the senses
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