Re-Locating the Spectator – The Squat Theater’s Use of Media and Space

Abstract

Based on the concepts of intermediality (Balme, Boenisch and Kattenbelt) and heterotopy (Foucault), my paper investigates the special features of the New York-based Squat Theater: their use of media and space. Focusing mostly on their second major, New York-performance, “Andy Warhol’s Last Love” (1978), I would like to analyze how they created a liminal zone (Turner) in-between times and spaces, which re-located the spectators’ position and re-interpreted their function.

Keywords

• theatre
• squat theater