Researcher(s):
Marlon Jiménez Oviedo
ENVS course(s): 400 Initiated: December 2015 Completed: April 2016 Go to project site
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During theatrical performance, audience members are seeing and listening, and performers are experiencing in real-time and space. Theatre or performance cannot be understood as text or symbols that can be read, for that denies its existence as an embodied practice, both from the performers and spectators’ perspective. In text, metaphors invoke recalling and imagining, but in the theatre the metaphors exist in space and time, they are seen, heard and felt. In that sense, theatre is always a situated practice.
My capstone project is my own scholarly and artistic attempt to translate, combine and complement ideas of theatre-making and the situated approach. Ultimately, I want to develop the idea of situated ‘performance’, that is performance that acknowledges its ontological situatedness, and treats place as more than space. Situated performance grapples with what is already at the performance location and beyond, including but not limited to human bodies and identities, and it facilitates explorations that offer new (re)imaginings of place.