关键词: 《关于无的演讲》, 后戏剧剧场, 后现代剧场, 跨文化剧场, 诗的议会

Abstract: This article revisits debates overpostdramatic theatre, postmodern theatre, and intercultural theatrethrough Lecture on Nothing, Robert Wilson's staging of John Cage's text.The production shows that Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of postdramatic theatre may have misjudged the relation between literature and theatre in new forms of contemporary theatre. Lehmann's postdramatic theatre has the same roots as postmodern theatre. Its aesthetic logic that abandons referentiality to historical reality to celebrate a self-referential performance of signifiers leads to the de-facto problem of political nonchalance. Connecting Bruno Latour's sociological theory with traditional Chinese cosmology, this article argues that Lecture on Nothing as an intercultural avant-garde performance illustrates an aesthetic landscape of “parliament of poetries,” where contemporary theatre practices cross boundaries between drama and theatre, modern and postmodern, culture and culture, to explore matters of concern in the contemporary world.

Key words: Lecture on Nothing, postdramatic theatre, postmodern theatre, intercultural theatre, parliament of poetries