Intermediate scenarios

Abstract

In this article, we present some of the intermediate scenarios in which contemporary theater takes place. To do so, we analyze a series of performative and audiovisual works. We consider that, within the framework of contemporary art, hybridization, unspecificity and the juxtaposition of genres, styles, and formats are the order of the day. First of all, we take up some concepts that link the performing arts with digital technologies. We point out that the massive technification of the activities in which people's lives are carried out has promoted the creation of a virtual public space. We then argue that the convivial logic of the performing arts, which delves into physical co-presence as its determining characteristic, is put in the background in favour of the development of rhizomatic, non-hierarchical, and heterogeneously interconnected actions. To account for these aspects, we analyse the plays Museo Ezeiza. 20 de junio de 1973, by Pompeyo Audivert and Andrés Mangone; Relato situado. Memorias del aislamiento, produced by the Compañía de Funciones Patrióticas; as well as three short 360 video films: El almohadón de plumas, La casa tomada and Misterio en la biblioteca, made by Gabriel Pomeraniec.