PUBLIC SPACE

To build scenes in different places and countries in the public sphere that can be seen individually by online audiences through placed cameras in specific angles. The different public spaces performances can be seen as well through projections of image and sound on the stage as part of the performance choreography. One scene is built and can be seen from different audiences’ perspectives - How does the audience receive work? Reception Theory. Hans Robert Jauss was a German academic, notable for his work in Reception Theory (especially his concept of horizon of expectation) - Encoding / decoding model of communication - Stuart Hall in 1973 - approach of how media messages are produced, disseminated, and interpreted.

In a world where democracy, activism and freedom of speech become increasingly important and at the same time more threatened, theatre should not be a place where one must remain passive and silent and accept everything that is said. On the contrary, theatre has the potential and duty to become a kind of 'rehearsal space' for democracy, a place where it is encouraged not only to observe, but to be critical, active and responsible for what is happening. Very important for this analysis of the audience, is how today's media have changed the way information is received - in an interactive, selective, and dialogic way. The space that exists between 'old-fashioned' viewers sitting in front of the radio or television with today's video game players and Internet users is huge - new consumers of information and entertainment literally make their own decisions, choosing their favourite content, browsing the story in a non-linear fashion, network style, comments and adding your own content. Art becomes much more powerful when performers and spectators join forces.

Layers of Audience