Activist Theatre

A key point to arts within social practice is the type of impact it produces on its surroundings and how. Aesthetic art sees no importance in the feelings it produces within its spectators, but success within social practices, is measured in the impression it makes on the surroundings that it engages with. Dewey states that “art heightens feeling, the experience is immediately felt to be developing in an intelligent and consummatory manner. It becomes alive with the sense of its own progressive realization of meaning and value.” Impact and feelings are especially important in activist theatre. The larger amount of audience it reaches and the more memorable it is, the more likely it will be successful in raising awareness or implementing change. Therefore, atmosphere, affect and phenomenology which all revolve around human sense’s can all be vital in certain parts of social practices. …show more content…
They say they transport the bodies of refugees who died on their journey and to give them a proper funeral in Germany. By staging funerals and fundraising to create a cemetery in front of The Federal Chancellery in Berlin they wish to bring the issue straight to policy makers and to make the bodies seem human. The performativity of the activism resides in the fact that it is unknown whether the caskets are empty or not. The event was largely publicised to the public and they show many footages of horrors of mass graves abroad. The act received mixed reviews of devastation and praise for their intervention. While the impact for change in activist theatre is not one to be registered imminently only through the reactions can we see if it was a successful project. While it did produce affect it, failed to provide tools for those who were affected by