Theatrical space at the technovivial crossroads: Territorial Implications

Abstract

Technological devices and the Internet have been the most exploited resources by artists from all over the country and the world to sustain their activity in recent years of emergency. Now, how does this emergency impact the perspective of theater studies? Technovivial theater not only presents us with a specific, explicit and decisive poetic program that sought to respond to this situation and solve the particular challenge of using devices for the production of theatrical events, but also leads us to reconsider the relationship between the body, space and time in the construction of possible new, unexplored territories. Technovivial theater thus makes us rethink the role that space plays in the production of the theatrical event. Based on the analysis of three cases, we review how space works in technovivial theater, the problems faced by those who seek to legitimize this practice and, finally, the territorial implications on the theatrical field’s configuration.