Art and life interactions in the performing arts of the 21st century

Abstract

This paper introduces the Dossier “Art and life interactions in the performing arts of the 21st century” by making a synthetic development of some theoretical problems that can be read in the articles. This “between art and life”, always latent in the performing arts, redefined first by the historical avant-gardes and then by the post-avant-gardes up to this ¿post?pandemic context of “expanded self-referentiality”, generates a series of tensions that can be thought of in terms of the interactions inherent to the performing arts, that is, the social processes of interpellation and exchange they contribute to produce. These interactions give rise to a set of questions and tensions between art and life that the works in the dossier examine: reality and fiction; the real and the true; the (self) (bio) (meta) fictional; the redefinitions of document, archive and memory; the singular and the collective; the producers and the audience; the body and corporeality in the creative processes; the subject and the objects; the inert and the living; diverse manifestations of self-referentiality and diverse forms in which life enters and is translated on stage (installation, theater, puppetry, drag queen intervention, clownery, performance, etc.).