His [artist] art is an amazing act of primordial mimesis, in which he unlearns or suspends ordinary symbolizations of experience -one might say the inhibitory symboliza tions of experience that make it ordinary -in order to display its primordial givenness. 1 Es teatro lo que hace "La Fura"? [Is theatre what La Fura does?] 2 Abstract: The article attempts to present various categories of activities related to participatory art that we can find in the extensive artistic output of the Catalan

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... p named La Fura dels Baus. Ever since it was established in 1979, the group has been presenting a wide variety of forms: open-air events, dramatic plays, operas, and performances. It uses typically theatrical techniques, emphasizing especially quasi-religious experiences and experiments originating from mythical prehistory of the stage art and newer group techniques (happening, techniques develo-1 2 D.