Abstracts
Abstract
Taking as a starting point the opposition of our title: this text, in the form of a duologue, is also a meeting between photography and theatre, a vantage point from which certain conceptual frameworks can be challenged and even collapsed. In the domain of theatre, one hears often of artifice, authenticity, likeness and liveness. Theatre, from the conceptualisation of naturalism in the nineteenth century to the challenges posed by performance art in the twentieth century, struggles with media (despite the eclecticism of its own technological apparatus), sometimes seeking distance from them. Photography studies, meanwhile, has often emphasised the possibility or impossibility of veracity, the truthfulness or deceptiveness of photographs, with performance seemingly offering one escape route… This duologue seeks only to cast light on certain crossings inside the theatre of photography, envisaging future dialogues between media and across disciplines.
Keywords:
- theatre,
- theater,
- photography,
- theatricality,
- intermediality,
- translation,
- medium specificity,
- mediation,
- liveness,
- performance,
- performativity,
- theatre photography,
- apparatus
Résumé
Nous prenons comme point de départ l’opposition du titre : ce texte, sous forme de dialogue/duologue, est également une rencontre entre la photographie et le théâtre, un point de vue privilégié permettant l’interrogation et même l’effondrement de certaines grilles conceptuelles. Dans le domaine du théâtre, on parle souvent d’artifice, authenticité, vraisemblance, et « liveness ». Le théâtre, à partir de la conceptualisation du naturalisme à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle et jusqu’aux défis de la performance au vingtième, semble lutter contre les médias (malgré l’éclecticisme de son propre dispositif représentationnel technologique), cherchant parfois à se situer en dehors d’eux. D’autre part, les études photographiques soulignent souvent la possibilité ou l’impossibilité de la véracité photographique, les sincérités ou tromperies des photographies, d’où la « performance » semble parfois proposer une issue… Ce dialogue se contente d’éclairer certains croisements au Théâtre de la Photographie, afin d’envisager de futurs dialogues entre les médias et les disciplines.
Mots-clés :
- théâtre,
- théâtralité,
- intermedialité,
- traduction,
- spécificité du médium,
- médiation,
- liveness,
- performance,
- performativité,
- photographie de théâtre,
- dispositif
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