Der gedoppelte Mensch: Perfomative Grenzüberschreitungen auf Bali (original) (raw)

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Abstract

Different concepts of reality are presented together with possibilities for their performative interpretation. One example is in the picture entitled Faces or Vases?. The A. shows that changing persepective while viewing the picture results in two different forms: one of white faces and the other of black vases. This graphic, seems to the A., to exemplify the Balinese concept of reality, which is characterised by a continuing change between a material, ordinary dimension of reality (sekala) and the spiritual, other reality (niskala). Within the Bali-Hinduistic religion, the Balinese have created a variety of performative means in order to manage these two dimensions of reality. For example an elaborate iconographic sign system prescribes the use of masks, movements and rites of passage which mark the crossing of the border between both dimensions of reality within a performance.

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