For the license towards pure abstraction: available impossibility in live arts

Abstract

The text is an answer to the review “Mimesis performativa: imediatez em ação ou a ação da mediação?” (Conceição | Concept., Campinas, SP, v. 7, n. 2, p. 110–142, jul./dez. 2018), from Stephan Arnulf Baumgartel, to the book of Luiz Fernando Ramos, Mimesis Performativa: a margem de invenção possível (Annablume, 2015). The author praises the Baumgartel’s disposition to debate frankly and rigorously and tries to answer his critical remarks, mainly, facing their two central issues: a disapproval towards the idea of “pure opsis” and closing the book perspectives to the ones of the North American critic Michael Fried. The intention of this replica is to open a public debate, extending the questions proposed by the two texts to the community of Performing Arts researchers.