Playing the media and playing the senses
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.2.n.1.pp16-35Keywords:
Hypermedium, Intermediality, Performativity, Performer, Experiencer, Both-AndAbstract
In my essay I consider theater as paradigm of all arts and as the art of the performer. I focus on the performative aspects of art as manifested in worldmaking, staging, self-referencing and self-reflexing. These last two aspects are particularly relevant in my understanding of intermediality as a specific mode of performativity, causing with all its frictions, contrasts and disjunctions a creative force according to the principle of both-and. I also discuss theater functioning as a hypermedium, providing a stage for other media to be staged or rather a playground for other media to be played with and thus also to play with the senses and the positioning of the spectator as experiencer. With a brief discussion of three performances, I want to demonstrate how the both-and principle of intermediality can work.
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