Nov18-face aux écrans

In 2013, Goosan Artistic Group, an Iranian group of performance artists, created a promenade performance based on Euripides’s Hippolytus, in which the spectator became the actor, the actor became the director, the video installation became the corpse, and all of them together stood witness to a performative moment of history: Hippolytus awaiting his verdict in […]

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Performance Between the Real and the Virtual: The Odiseo.com Project La communication présente la mise en scène du projet Odisseo.com. Dans ce projet, la scène est à la fois réelle et virtuelle. Une partie de la création est composée d’acteurs présents sur la scène. L’autre partie est constituée d’acteurs «lointains», retransmis simultanément sur la scène […]

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In recent theatre practice, attempts have been made and desires expressly voiced –from puppet theatre to robotic, cyborg, hybrid and/or intermedial performance— to create pieces of theatre that defy the gravitational limitations of live presence. The flexibility of theatre forms and of “theatricalizeable” material has in many cases rendered the actor’s body nearly obsolete. The […]

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 In recent times in India we have seen the actor’s presence eclipsed by technology in productions affiliated with national institutions. The actor is reduced to a scenographic tool and converted into a component in a show. Upon closer examination, this can be seen as a case study of neoliberal imagery celebrated by the State and […]

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