Art of the Loop

What is it about?

The dramaturgical aesthetic of recent postdramatic performance returns to medieval representational modes: an eye can be used as an ear, and vision can be orchestrated like the auditory space of simultaneous relations. Whether an immersive, site-specific, one-to-one, or digital/new media performance, such performance has no one point of view, no “one” in control; success or failure is largely determined by individual and collective will. Closing the loop means beginning, again, in non-Euclidian space.

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Why is it important?

Contemporary culture tends to think of the Digital Age has heralding unprecedented ways of being human; this essay looks to the relationship between bodies, celestial space and aural medieval culture to formulate some parallels that are apparent when considering contemporary performance and culture.