“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.” MovingSituationTelevisionPerformancesCurrentsTheatreIronyDiscussionDiscourseExaminationReplicateLive PerformanceCurrent SituationReplicationLive Theatre Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
“The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.” ActorsIllusionPerformancesRationalityEmphasisDilemmaTheatricalUnderminingBrecht Book:From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Source: From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism
“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.” MenWorldArtStillsAgeEnjoyCasesAudienceImpossibleEventsInformationPerformancesMythologyVersionsBurningAppealsImpulseFestivalsFrontiersArt WorldInformation AgeVisibilitySingle StatusBurning Man Author:Philip Auslander
