Transgression of art forms in modern Ukrainian plastic theater

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the phenomenon of transgressive art in the Ukrainian plastic theater of the 21st century. Methodology. The phenomenological method is applied (to identify and comprehend the semantic level of the phenomenon of transgressive art in the modern Ukrainian plastic theater); methods of art history, figurative-stylistic and art-compositional analysis (for the theoretical justification of the trends of the theater of plastic art, determining the specifics of the director-production activities of A. Belsky, identifying the components of the stage image of plastic performances and analyzing their rhythmic structure) and other scientific novelty. Scientific novelty. The philosophical concept of transgression to the field of plastic directing has been extrapolated; the problems of the transgression of art forms in the modern domestic plastic theater are considered on the example of the performances of the Academy of Motion by the Kryvyi Rih Theater of Musical Plastic Arts; it was revealed that the theater of plastic arts is one of the transgressive practices of contemporary art, which is characterized by the dominance of strategies expressed in the transformation of the figurative structure of physicality. Conclusions. The study of the stylistic characteristics of the Ukrainian plastic theater revealed the intensification of the experimental search for new ways and forms of expression, the focus of the directors on the transition of the process of meaning and formation to a new level of understanding of life. The performances of the theater of plastic arts are always encoded messages that require thoughts and feelings in the process of decoding the tension, since seeing and comprehending the directors' search for a new “world dimension” is not always easy for the viewer. Transgression symbolizes the desire of the modern plastic theater to move away from classical attitudes towards absolute transcendence, to overcome the boundaries of consciousness, and to find possibilities for new positions of corporeality. The position of the director of the plastic theater, in our opinion, is primarily aimed at rethinking a certain concept or image fixed in theatrical practice, in the context of the search for innovative ways and methods of plastic directing that are adequate to the modern sense of worldview.