Una nota sull’estetica del performativo di Erika Fischer-Lichte

This paper presents a number of topics related to the aesthetic model proposed by Erika Fischer-Lichte’s book "The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics". The first part illustrates the transition from an aesthetic of the artwork to an aesthetic of the event. Particular attention is devoted to some of the book’s basic concepts: the concept of the performative, developed using Max Herrmann’s idea of Aufführung (performance) and the concept of autopoetic feedback loop, used to describe the performative process in which the artistic event is constituted. In the second part I investigate the scholar’s themes of corporeality, presence and production of meanings. The paper shows the distance between the aesthetics of the performative and hermeneutic paradigms. The paper concludes with the exposition of the idea of the transformative power of performance (Aufführung) and notes the question of the philosophy of history underlying it.