Referring to Avery Gordon\u2019s sociological study of haunting, Andr\u00e9 Lepecki approaches the ghostly as a critical agent at the borders of society\u2019s intelligibility, promoting a heightened awareness, an alternative sensorial mode: \u201cSuch capacity to experience what should not belong to experience proper should not be confused with any sort of hysteria or histrionics. It is just a mode of composing perception initiated by the ghostly: \u201cIt is a suitable line in the program sheet of (g)hosts, yet the Portuguese, Brussels-based choreographer Lilia Mestre doesn\u2019t shun embracing \u201cimproper\u201d manifestations of the ghostly, that after all make up a major part of our cultural imagination. Not the pathological but the histrionic is what tempts her. We are in the theater, after all. And indeed, what can actually be said or shown about that realm in which the ghostly is taken for what it is? Listen! (g)hosts is Mestre\u2019s most complex and radical work to date, a compelling exercise in reverse ghost busting. <\/p>\n
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