Integrative Inszenierungen

Regarding the contemporary trend of event-orientation and the staging of actual lebensraum and virtual space, performative spaces in between, places of encounter are of emerging interest. Venues, which enable experiences, innovative approaches and experiment have enormous social, cultural and political potentials. Integrative staging is about scenografic interventions in the "expanded space" (Wetzel). As an interdisciplinary term integrative staging is meant to be an opportunity of describing a certain set in the cultural field: the organization of space, its mise-en- scène in physical and symbolical terms and the dynamic process-orientated options of acting it faciliates. Integrative staging is fathoming new "hybrid space related modes of action" (Meurer) and the staging of processes of participation. The attention is drawn to spaces and objects and their potential of immersion. Integrative staging follows an anthropocentric approach. It is offering temporary laboratories of experience and favouring collective acting. Divjak approaches the topic enfolding a phenomenological discourse and philosophical, sociological and cultural historical reflexions focusing space. He introduces examples of integrative staging (in the context of theatre, cultural education in the museum and fine arts) and analyzes modes of staging and concepts of organizing space, in order to adress audiences as players.