Abstract of the Commemorative lecture
The Golden Fish
Art implies quality and to judge its quality, we need a reference.
In the theatre, it has always been very hard to establish this reference and theatre events are often evaluated according to criteria that belong to other fields such as literature, aesthetics, painting, philosophy, sociology or politics. Worst of all, the most common reference is contained in one word 'culture' that its only truth exists in the moment-to-moment interaction with the spectator. It is in this precise zone of contact and friction that something unexpected and of quality may or may not appear.
If this is wher the golden fish lives, what is the net that can bring it up to the light?
An investigation of the phenomenon of theatre begins and ends with 'the present moment', which is the pool in whise depths the golden fish seims unseen. What is the nature of the net that can bring it up into the light? Is this net made of holes or knots?
