"Performing "Aume

In his last notebooks, Antonin Artaud made it clear that he was planning to stage a play on the Tower of Babel. The drafts for what this essay considers as a radio play helps to understand Artaud's preparatory work for his last radio play, To Have Done with the Judgment of God, and more generally provides insight into Artaud's writing technique, his practice of performance, and his interest in the radio medium. The essay argues that these drafts illustrate how Artaud, in his reconstitution of the Babelic myth, fuses two essential aspects of his critique of modern theatre: the coining of a new embodied language, and the presentation of a new "glorious body," which he will name "the body without organs" in To Have Done with the Judgment of God. In these notes for a radio play, Artaud aims, through a performance centering on the sacred syllable aum and associating a choreography to glossolalic utterances, to redefine the human body. This choreography of linguistic and bodily transformations challenges the characterization of Artaud's theatrical experimentations during the second half of the twentieth century either as an impossible or a failed theatre. The essay's goal is to reassess the importance of Artaud's performance art to account for the multiplicity of media in his work, and to look at how his experience as an actor came to shape both his radio experiments and artistic practices into an art of the body, which also happens to consist in a body of arts

Aesthetics · Art · Choreography · Dance · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Performative utterance · Visual arts · French Literature and Poetry · Philosophy

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