Ostermeier writings [3]

This chapter examines that those who in their work today merely repeat the non-narrative formal games of performance art for the hundredth time are much greater conservative epigones than those who start from scratch with a dramatic text, or in whatever form. Many institutionalised, but also many independent culture producers have begun to feel a longing for relevance, and they discovered politics. Resistance, emancipation, revolution, and true, active politics happen when social movements unite and begin to shake up and change the existing conditions and power relations in a society. Capitalism desires nothing more than people who think differently, and thereby perhaps invent the next iPhone. Culture, and a big part of it is the classical bourgeois canon of works, is their ultimate attempt to be able to survive in global capitalism, to acquire certain weapons and a certain shell which helps one to stay sane.