Sistematurgia. La quarta parete e lo schermo

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.234

Keywords:

digital performance, multimedia, interactivity, Marcel·lì Antunez Roca

Abstract

The interview has been recorded in three days in Barcelona, during the rehearsals of Pseudo, the last performance of Marcel•lí Antúnez Roca. Starting from the creative process he has followed to produce the show, the conversation aims to describe a larger picture of the methodology of the Catalan artist and focuses on his idea of interactive narrative. It starts from the use of projection screens intended as a space for his grotesque cartoon characters to live, and describes the ongoing – almost all along his career – effort to invent a new space for the whole performance. Moreover, the artist defines his idea of Sistematurgy, a neologism he created from the fusion of Systems of computers and digital devices, and Dramaturgy as narrative organizing principle of the performance. This is the heart of the interview and interweaves problems regarding the theory and praxis of interactivity and the role of the audience in contemporary performance. It emerges that Marcel•lí Antúnez Roca, albeit coming from a fine art background, and although growth within the Fura del Baus, in the last decades has been more and more dedicated to the multimedia dramaturgy of the digital performance, trying to hybridize the event-like nature of his interactive performance, with the delivery of a clear sense and meaning of the storyteller.

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Author Biography

Antonio Pizzo, University of Turin

Since 2001, is Associate Professor at University of Turin where he teaches Theatre and Multimedia, and Dramaturgy. He is the founder and a project designer for www.officinesintetiche.it, where he has been collaborating with different artists. In the last ten years his research has been focused on performance, drama and technology. He is one of the founder of CIRMA (Centro per la Ricerca sul Multimediale e l’Audiovisivo – www.cirma.unito.it) where he contributed to develop a computational model of drama (i.e. the Drammar Ontology) and a study on synthetic character as virtual museum guide (http://dramatour.di.unito.it). On this topic he wrote Teatro e mondo digitale (Venezia, Marsilio, 2003), Neodrammatico digitale: Scena multimediale e racconto interattivo (Torino, Accademia, 2013); he has published numerous paper in journals and proceedings in Multimedia, Virtual Storytelling, and Artificial Intelligence. Beside, grounded on his Phd dissertation on vernacular actors in Italy, he has develop a specific interest for the cultural implications of Neapolitan Theatre, publishing a number of papers and essays. His book Scarpetta e Sciosciammocca. Nascita di un buffo (Roma, Bulzoni, 2009) is about the pivotal figure of Eduardo Scarpetta and the born of the comic character Don Felice Sciosciammocca. For a detailed list of publication see: www.cirma.unito.it/pizzo.

Published

2012-12-10

How to Cite

Pizzo, A. (2012). Sistematurgia. La quarta parete e lo schermo. Mimesis Journal, 1(2), 124–146. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.234

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Riflessioni e ricerche