Mal - Embriaguez Divina
Event
To explore the various forms of evil, a group sinking into a sea of paper turns into a choir positioned on a rostrum. The title of this work by Marlene Freitas makes several references to the ambivalence of evil. It can barely refer to restlessness, discomfort, pain, suffering, agony, grief, torment, emptiness, horror and also evil. However, “Embriaguez Divina” (Divine Inebriation) posits evil as a state of divine hallucination, of Dionysian ecstasy. Evil takes many forms. It appears as a determining force in a large number of stories, and theatre has long been a context in which it is revealed and exposed. For some, the experience of the abyss of evil is a prerequisite for art. George Bataille places evil and art in close proximity, as two forces that oppose a lawful world of rational calculation. He perceives children as beings committed to evil, rebelling against an adult world of inhibiting conventions. The Divine exaltation as a transformative insurrection of Evil against Good, inviting us to break with order, to escape normalization and to deviate from the script.
