ABSTRACT
André Lepecki’s contribution is structured around two moments, transhistorical as well as transnational. In the first part, Lepecki considers how the early 1960s experiments around colour, time, dance, and objecthood by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) offer to contemporary performance theory a series of highly original and insightful theoretical-aesthetic-existential concepts that, once taken to their ultimate consequences, reshuffle current understandings of the relations between time and matter, object and event, performance and its afterlives, dance and its futures. After introducing Oiticica’s rich philosophical and aesthetic vocabulary, as well as some of his works, Lepecki discusses some of the theoretical contributions that his investigations offer to contemporary choreography: that time is not an a-priory category or an autonomous dimension but an epiphenomenon of mattering, including social-political issues.
