The constitution and destitution of subjects depend on the structuring power of scenes. Which staging elements are involved in the formation and destabilization, even the annihilation, of the subject? What knowledge is produced within this framework? In an interdisciplinary approach, the volume outlines the relationship between perception and knowledge, politics and scenic publicness, focusing on the themes of tribunal, torture, and artistic practices of self-harm. Just as tribunals operate at the intersection of legal performance and theatricality, in torture, the violation of the subject is part of a framework of secrecy, revelation, and complicity. Experimentally tested and scenically performed desubjectivization in artistic practices reveal cultural and societal restrictions as well as notions about the subject and its boundaries.