Theatre of the Mind: Spectators and Installation in H. G. by Robert Wilson, London 1995
Theatre of the Mind: Spectators and Installation in H. G. by Robert Wilson, London 1995

Summary/Abstract: [...] Analysing Robert Wilson’s installation, H. G., taking place in the semi-darkness of the vaults below the medieval Clink Prison, London, in 1995, I will demonstrate some of the methods and means with which the traditionally passive strategy of the spectator’s perception can be transformed into a (self)creative, (self)reflective, and performative process by the mechanism of a postmodern installation. In order to show that mechanism, I re-structure the territory of H. G. through Erving Goffman’s treatise on regions (Goffman 1959); re-construct its working method through Frederic Jameson’s notion of postmodern installation (Jameson 1991); and re-focus its main themes through Elinore Fuchs’s concept of Presence and Absence (Fuchs 1985).[...]

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