Stage and Audience

You head to a place designed for performance in order to attend an event. After crossing a threshold, you enter the space of the event – an amphitheatre in a landscape, the horseshoe-shaped balconies of an opera house, a black box. The architecture of this place conditions relations between you, as a member of an audience, and the action, in relation to others in the audience, and in relation to itself as spatial construct. This space constructs, contains, and controls relations between the audience and action, between audience member and audience member, and it may also suggest alternative inhabitations, and afford the shifting of these relations over time.