Championing “the Right to Experiment, both in Science and Art”

Abstract

Throughout the 20th century and until the present, the notion of theatre laboratory
has encapsulated the need for a suitable space-time for artistic research
that is not linked to the imperative of production. This is both a challenge
and a paradox for an art that only exists in the confrontation with the audience.
However, it is also in this both ethical and artistic requirement where a
non-sclerosing performance pedagogy can be invented; a collective mode of
research, creation and sometimes even life; the renewal of an art threatened by
excessively agreed expectations and by imperatives of immediate productivity.