In this term I started exploring a new area, a bit different from the one in my essay of the second term. I am reading about video art, video installations and I am trying to find information on the role of the body as a spectator and as a participant in the installation. The difficulty is that now I found myself between three different cases in my study: cinema, (cinematic) theatre and (immersive) performance-installation. My practice is more near to the last one and it was the one that was missing in my last essay. So, now except for Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson I am studying the work of Bill Viola. Viola is mainly a vido artist but his works have a highly performative aspect. The viewer walks into the immersive environments he creates, where he/she plays a vital role.
‘The most important place where my work exists is not in the museum gallery, or in the screening room, or in the television, and not even on the video screen itself, but in the mind of the viewer who has seen it.’ Bill Viola
So, I am trying to introduce the role of the viewer-spectator in the theatrical, the cinematic and the installation experience and the function of the body inside them. The positions and the points of view of the body are important for each experience.
‘Adopting an embodied perspective to understand post-linear performance recognizes that the bedrock of live performance is the body, and more specifically, the bodies of the audience in the act of deciphering, assimilating, or enjoying the experience provided by the alchemy of bodies and technologies ‘onstage’.’ Susan Kozel
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