Remediated Spatiality

Performative and Medial Spaces in the Work of Imitating the Dog

Abstract

This essay investigates how digital media relate to scenic space and modify its prerequisites and tensions, redraws its boundaries and creates new spatial models. In particular we analyse the use of space by the British company Imitating the Dog, finding three models of space remediation experienced in various theatre performances: the cinematic dramaturgy and theatricalizing cinema of Hotel Methuselah and Kellerman; the emotional space of the Winter Garden experience; Arrivals and Departures at the Deep, where scenic space redefines the borders of the urban environment.