Theatre is a building, music is an artform. Pedantic semantics or language defecit?

Seth Honnor, 17 July 2012

Context: It feels like there is emergent live performance practice for which the term theatre doesn't do audience, artist, funder, marketer or theatre any service at all.

Kaleider the organisation for which I work is engaged in producing work for non auditorium contexts some interruptive and some ticketed, some both. We are facing the challenge of the language defecit for the work we produce.

The group of people who attended listed some possible words associated with practice in a live context. We talked about their pros and cons. We didn't feel we really dealt with the challenge…

Performative

Live

Theatre

Live Art

Immersive

Performance

Gaming

Show

Guerilla

Interruptions

Fantastic Interruptions

Artist

Platform/multi platform

Site Specific

Street Art

Art Attacks

Live Street Art

Digital

Pervasive media/performance

Comedy

Happening

Live Event

Motion

What about trying other languages do they have a good term? word? Stage (in french)

Site Based

Use more than one term for different contexts?

Public Art

Public Live Art Encounter - PLAE

Invisible Theatre

Encounter

Grokking

Play

Please contribute your suggested terms made up or new or different language…

Tags:

theatre language, live performance, terminology