Heiner Goebbels. The aesthetics of absence (2011)

Heiner Goebbels, German composer, lecturing on the aesthetics of absence. During the lecture, Heiner Goebbels, discusses the role of the spectator, his involvement and inscription into the scene, and the deconstruction of the traditional co-ordinates of theatre, opera, and performance art, in order to reveal the effects of gaps, inundation, silence and conflict. The result, is what he calls experimental theatre music. Over the course of the lecture, Goebbels shows a number of clips from