A Political Analysis of Dissent in "Mouthpiece" (2018) by Kieran Hurley

Abstract

Which power mechanisms underlie the process of a story’s transmission? Under which parameters can the theatrical space become a locus of contestation of a concrete regime of intelligibility, or rather a device of institutional cooptation? Departing from Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the apparatus, I will use Jacques Rancière’s concept of the political to explore the emancipatory potential of dramaturgical strategies which, rather than structuring the performance in a closed diegesis, crack it open to the possibility of its disruption.