The Serious World and the Clowns

Humor, Fun, Distraction and Vital Laughter

Authors

  • Luciane Campos Olendzki UNICAMP - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes da Cena

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ac.v5i2.59947

Abstract

ABSTRACT

 

This manuscript addresses meanings of the clown's figure and scenic art, in comic tensioning and creative game with the serious world. For this, we bring to this reflection the extemporaneous forces of poetic types of the genealogy of clownery (jugllers, buffoons, jesters, etc.) and the Nietzschean criticism of the moral values and human types that inflict weight and gravity to existence. With this, we question what can the clown do – recognized in their universal character as fool, idiot, vagabond, misfit, unreasonable, animalistic, miserable, vile, marginal – with their scenic and humorous art in the contemporaneity, facing the horrors and serious tragedies of existence? 

 Keywords: clowns; humor; laughter; existence; resistance

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Author Biography

  • Luciane Campos Olendzki, UNICAMP - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes da Cena
    Atriz, palhaça, diretora e professora de teatro.

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Published

2019-12-27

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2019): VAGABONDS, ROVERS AND ROGUES: Strategies of Social and Artistic Insertion on a Long Marginal Path

Section

Thematic Dossier

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How to Cite

OLENDZKI, L. C. The Serious World and the Clowns: Humor, Fun, Distraction and Vital Laughter. Art on Stage Journal, v. 5, n. 2, 27 Dec.2019.