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Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud

French actor, critic, & drama theorist (1896 - 1948)

1896-09-04 Marselha, França
1948-03-04 Ivry-sur-Seine, França
1921
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Surrealism

Some Poems

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty: Crash Course Theater #43
Artaud.mov
Antonin ARTAUD – Témoignages (DOCUMENTAIRE with english subtitles, 1993)
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud in Graziella (1926)
Antonin Artaud Documentary (English subtitles) - 1 of 2
"Faits divers" (1923) de Claude Autant-Lara avec Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud - Heliogabalus, or the Crowned Anarchist BOOK REVIEW
Antonin Artaud's monologue (scene from the movie "En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud, 1993")
Five Truths: Antonin Artaud
Mr. Artaud Becomes Uncanny - Hearts of Iron 4 Red Flood
Antonin Artaud - A Sinister Assassin BOOK REVIEW
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud, comme le feu - Culture Prime
Antonin Artaud, POUR EN FINIR AVEC LE JUGEMENT DE DIEU (Version intégrale)
Bauhaus - Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud: Practical Approaches to a Theatre of Cruelty (Preview)
Hot Topic: Antonin Artaud and The Theatre of Cruelty // The Theatre And Its Double // Surrealism
Antonin Artaud e il Teatro della Crudeltà
Antonin Artaud - Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu (Per farla finita col giudizio di dio)
Video 14 - Antonin Artaud e il Nagualismo
Description of a Physical State | Antonin Artaud | Audio Narration
Theatre Of Cruelty -Antonin Artaud
Understanding Surrealism - Antonin Artaud
Demetrio Stratos - Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud - Film Electrochoc
HOI4 Red Flood Super-event: Proclamation of the Etat Irreal(Artaud abolishes France)
Antonin Artaud Documentary (English subtitles) - 2 of 2
Antonin Artaud documental
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (My life and times with Antonin Artaud). Gerard Mordillat, 1993.
Antonin Artaud 'Metamorphosis' performance.
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud (1993)
Antonin ARTAUD – Face à Sollers (ORTF, 1966)
Antonin Artaud
Mack Lecture: Sylvère Lotringer on Antonin Artaud
Françoise Bonardel : La parole insurgée d'Antonin Artaud un message pour notre temps
The Life of Antonin Artaud
Hearts Of Iron 4: Red Flood - The Antonin Artaud Collection
Hearts Of Iron 4: Red Flood - L'État Irréel - Antonin Artaud Uses France To Declare War on Reality
Antonin Artaud: THEATRE OF CRUELTY 🇫🇷 🔪 Drama and Theatre Explained #4
Antonin Artaud - Zapato 3
Antonin Artaud in Graziella (1926) - "When Can We Marry these Kids"?
Bauhaus - Antonin Artaud - subtitulado español
Antonin Artaud
ANTONIN ARTAUD and THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY
Antonin Artaud – Metaphysics and the Mise en Scène (1932)
Antonin Artaud com legendas em português
Antonin Artaud - Yo estaba vivo
ANTONIN ARTAUD (1896-1948), né de son œuvre – Une vie, une œuvre [1995]
Antonin Artaud. ZAPATO 3 (en vivo). Gira RÉQUIEM para un Zapato. Barcelona España 23 nov 2022

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