EXPANDED AND PERFORMATIVE: ARCHITECTURE OF THE SCENE, SCENE OF THE ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

The itinerary followed by the theatre in the 20^th century had the common denominator with other artistic fields of overcoming inherited conventions and its disciplinary limits. The intention, deeply rooted in the second half of this century, was to broaden its original conceptions, which led to states and adjectivisations of "expanded" and/or "performative", initially ground-breaking and today already established along with orthodoxy as paradigms of the current arts. The debates on what theatre, scenography or theatrical architecture are have led to progress on the path followed, but today they are an old constraint, not for that reason dispensable, in the face of the wide and diverse panorama of current artistic practices that try to reflect the complexity of the contemporary world of the digital era. This text reflects on the heritage and aims to contribute to the current debate by proposing a horizon of symbiotic collaboration between the arts, in their being "beyond themselves", to work on the symbolic form of the 21^st century.