THE DESIGN OF PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 14TH EDITION OF QUADRIENNAL OF PRAGUE: TESTEMUNHAL THEATRALITY IN THIS BUILDING TALKS TRULY

Abstract

This article approaches the performance design from a case study of the exhibition project This Building Talks Truly directed by the Republic of North Macedonia and awarded with a Golden Trout of the best project at the Exhibition of Countries and Regions of the 14th edition of the Quadrennial of Prague of Performance Design and Space. The study proposes the problematization of the “public quality of the work” (CORNAGO, 2019) conceived in the form of a situation and / or device in which the strategies for activating space through performance will be analyzed. Specifically in the condition of activity and symbolic gesture inserted in the community social sphere and its displacement to the exhibition space. For the analysis, the concept of theatricality will be used as a reading operator based on the notion of “testimonial theatricality” (CABALLERO, 2016) defined by the author as a strategy capable of making visible and warning processes of deterioration and annihilation of communities in the relationship between subject and space. In this sense, theatricality acts as an expanded device capable of influencing the disposition of behaviors and events located in the context of scenic practices such as social discourse and cultural intervention. Condition that authorizes the theoretical and practical displacement of the perspective of the scene design while aimed at the productions of supposed daily aesthetics, beyond the theater and the arts. The Expository Project acts as a mosaic of overlaps, displacements of languages and situations with the gravitational center as the synthesis event - a long-term community relational program - developed in the occupied Railway Building. In this sense, it is assumed that regardless of cultural, economic and geographical reality, testimonial theatricality as a device, acts as a mechanism that generates liminal spaces capable of suspending, transiting and reorganizing languages and realities in experimental models of “anti-structure” (TURNER, 2013).

Keywords

Performance Design. Relational Aesthetics. Theatricality Testimonial. This Building Talks Truly.