Antonin Artaud: a vida e sua dimensão política

Abstract

Antonin Artaud was a french artist that lived on 20th century. With his theater and lifestyle, he shattered several moral institutions and rules that guided life. Made his life and art a combat. For this same reason, was subject of several reprimands. Artaud, man of theater stage, worked as a film actor, playwright, costume designer, scenographist, illustrator, art critic, an active man among his peers. Begun threading the path of historical avant-garde, and his ideals, especially those connected to surrealism, were aimed at revive theatrical art so it could be used as the place of action on life. Theater as practice of itself. Artaud s works were crucial so he could draw a life that was beyond or earlier of a certain life perspective consonant with its standardizing mechanisms. Beyond Artaud and his theater, this research focus on Nietzsche and Foucault, addressing some concepts dear to those authors. The life of those three were lives that to a certain extent drawn over existence other ways to be part of it. They established an aesthetic of existence from designing their lives as art pieces. Therefore, the research focuses on life and its political dimension seen through quality of life and its experiments. In this sense, draws the authors thoughts for different kinds of political actions