Mary Overlie / Six Viewpoints

MARY OVERLIE / SIX VIEWPOINTS

Genealogical position: corporeal mime and physical theatre.

Conceptual connection supplied for this timeline:

Overlie → horizontality, anarchism and permission rather than discipline.

Cross-genealogy relation:

Mary Overlie ↔ Marina Abramović: two conflicting models of “presence”.

This reference reuses the existing Mary Overlie branch in the knowledge graph rather than creating a duplicate theoretical source.

Contextualised via Roel & Arjan: American, postmodern, horizontal lineage — but relying, like Decroux, on the idea that meaning can emerge from spatial, temporal, compositional decisions before being conceptually defined. Difference from Decroux: Viewpoints proclaims its horizontality; Decroux fully embraces the authority of structure.