DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV

At the beginning of the 20^th century, theatre experienced a radical change. Theatre went from the historical continuity of “word, drama, conflict” to historical continuity of “image”. From historical Hellenist sequences, via Renaissance dramaturgy, classicist and romantic dramaturgy to the anti-dramaturgy of the 20^th century there enters a different continuity. It is at the “anti” of anti-dramaturgy that the change begins.

The historical continuity of the “image” enters theatre:

1. Icon – typically we do not know the artist; cave painting;
2. Fresco – a combination of the iconic and the mythic; sacral art, the artist is known;
3. Emancipated image – determined by the artist’s signature and the secular presentation in the museum;
4. Ambient – entry into the three-dimensional whole image; the artist is known, his signature is present, ambient manifests itself in museums; and
5. Telepicture-image, the image which is transmitted far with a transmitter, received with a receiver and appears on the screen.