Also Laurie Anderson and William Forsythe created a new way of performing because of the new technology and medium they used. Laurie Anderson is a pioneer in the interactive performance, and in electronic music. An experimental work who ket her invented several devices. she used them in recording and performance art show.
Steve Dixon see internet as "a type of vital performance of the self, and thus "digital performance" is rationalised by many as being already ubiquitous, embracing multiple communicational and presentational aspects of electronic everyday life."
I found his vision interested. Shakespeare said «Life is a Theatre», could we say in 2014 that Social Network is Theatre?
A platform where people create characters, avatar, or other roles. Such a digital paradigm!
In our society we are judge by our clothes (group affiliations), Artist dress up out of the box or as hipster, worker in La City dress up with jackets… you reflect what you do and who you are by the dress cade. In the web world people can be someone different and play with their own identity.
New media grow up in different aspect of performance not only in theatre.
Artist and collectives explore more and more the site specific performance. A participative performance who immerse the audience in the artiste work using new media.
Baz Kezshaw in his book 'the politics of Performance' defined Performance consciousness as "the frame of mind created by performance conventions which enables the spectator to accept the events of are both 'real' and 'not real' and to 'play around with'the norms, customs, regulations, laws.
The collective Punch Drunk, with is show "the Drowned Man: A hollywood fable" develop through a real 'mise en scene' an immersive performance.
here 'life is a Theatre' make sense.
as Immersive Performance is more and more exploited artist find it interesting to include the audience to there work.
Somehow Immersive performance seems to lay down a debate :
According to Colette Gordon, in her article for "Borrowers and Lenders" entitle : Touching the spectator, she said : "But it can be argued that Punchdrunk does very little to engage the fourth wall and that its commodification of the one-on-one encounter bypasses an opportunity to break down the distinction between audience and performer, the radical boundary crossing that immersive media is supposed to achieve. Both media pundits and performance scholars have been remiss in praising this sexy new theatre."
"It's hard to legislate about a show where everyone will have a different experience," said The Guardian's Michael Billington. "For me, the best moments were often the smallest."
All this critics are questing the immersive theatre and the implication of the audience in a performance. Is it because it is unwell conducted or is it because it is hard to filfull all the expectations of an audience?