The Ceremony Of Transformation
The ceremony of Transformation
Jose Luis Delgado Guitart deladoguitart@gmail.com
Performance and the New Media
Performance is a form of expression, communication and creation of emotional environments by actors for a group of spectators. In any performance we have two kinds of intervention: one guided by the conscient mind (author, director, actors and spectators), the other by the collective unconscious mind that blooms in different ways during this process. The so called new technologies with the amount of data and social interactions that they provoke add a new characteristic to this structure, such as the possibilities of influencing the knowledge and the relation between spectator, creators and actors. Another possibility is the creation of global performances with different kinds of human and technical interventions and therefore with different results. The new creator involved in the use of the new media will enhance its communication with all the possibilities that the use of Social Networks and New Technologies can offer. We are at the midst of a great transformation that goes from a traditional concept of Performance to the development of a New Performance Paradigm.
Transformations.
What kind of transformation occurs during a show, performance or ceremony? What the new media can do to change the dynamics involved in it? The term transformation refers to the act or process by which something changes, suffers an alteration or evolves maintaining its identity.
Let´s focus on the transformation that occurs during a show or ceremony performance. The ongoing transformation and the factors involved in it involve a reassessment of the process of creativity, aesthetic standards and performing arts. Impermanence, collective unconscious and new technologies Everything changes constantly, nothing is permanent. Our blood our mind change every second. I am not now what I was seconds ago. Therefore everything is in a continuous change. A play is never the same, the actors are not the same, though they are, something similar happens to the spectators/audience. The word and the tones change. A design, picture, stage… change and shifts according to the personal views, the times and the trends. An abstract painting was almost incomprehensible a few years ago now this is not the case. What we see depend on different variables such as the amount of light reflected, our cultural background and other variables, the same occurs with performances. The cultural concept of time is another important variable. Another input to a performance to keep in mind is the collective unconscious that is like a large body of water from which ancient ideas emerge and are transformed into new archetypes at conscious levels. This concept helps to understand a changing paradigm based on a non‐static platform in which in turn brings endless energy that inevitably leads to an intense transformation that could be controlled or uncontrolled. A performance is full of transformations based on collective ancestral grounds. An archetype is a universally understood symbol, term, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. Archetypes are often used in myths and storytelling across different cultures. Some ancient cultures developed studies on change the I‐Ching or Book of Changes talks about them. The central concept of the I Ching sees the universe as a place of constant movement, where change and the changes are permanent. Whenever is the situation presented it contains in itself the principle that leads to its opposite state, making any event a cycle, this idea is expressed clearly in the concept of yin and yang Astrology also speaks of the influence of the universe on the changes in the person. The New technologies also influence the concept of performance. The use of ...
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