“现场性”与“媒介化”:媒介时代的剧场

Liveness and Mediatization: Theater in the Age of Media

本文讨论"现场性"和"媒介化"话语在剧场理论和实践中的沿革、它们的现实语境和思想背景,以及社会指向。有别于将两者作为对立概念,本文试图厘清"现场性"话语的历史建构语境,同时指出,在处于媒介时代的剧场中,现场性与媒介化有着共生的理论建构,也共同催生了丰富的作品呈现方式。在一个媒介时代中,其现场性已在很大程度上被媒介所改变,现场性体验也被媒介化,在现场性与媒介化之间形成的美学张力业已构成当代剧场中最值得关注的趋势之一。更为根本的是,媒介时代中剧场的现场性诉求所涉及的是当代剧场的公共性问题。总的来说,有必要厘清"现场"概念在媒介时代所处的理论场域,并将剧场作品中的现场性与媒介化问题置于媒介时代之中整体地看待。

This paper focuses on the transformation of discourses on liveness and mediatization in theatre studies and theatrical productions,and tries to describe their historical contexts,intellectual backgrounds and social implications.It attempts to clarify the historical context in which the discourse of liveness is constructed,and claims that,for the theatre in an age of media,liveness and mediatization have shared theoretical constructs,and together they bring forth the richness of theatrical performances.In the current age of media,not only had liveness been drastically changed by media but also the live experience has been mediated,while the tension between liveness and mediatization underlies one of the most remarkable aesthetic tendencies in contemporary theatre.The paper claims that the appeal for liveness in the media-age theatre is essentially concerned with the issue of public sphere in contemporary theatre.It is imperative to locate the position of liveness as a concept in the theoretical field in the age of media,and to understand liveness and mediatization of theatrical works in the context of this media age.