2011 » Hungary » Architecture Section

Bread and dripping with paprika. Motto: “The construction itself was actually theatre. In the Flat Theatre everything was theatre. Sitting in the kitchen eating bread and dripping – this also was theatre.” Péter Donáth, painter, scenographer (1938-1996)

Motto: “The construction itself was actually theatre. In the Flat Theatre everything was theatre. Sitting in the kitchen eating bread and dripping – this also was theatre.” Péter Donáth, painter, scenographer (1938–1996) From private homes to deserted industrial buildings and abandoned Socialist-era cultural centers – the new performative spaces are meeting points for different branches of art. These are spaces whose flexible spatial configuration, ready for a daily metamorphosis, offer a wide array of sensory media and spaces. These venues’ spatial tissues also reveal their designers’ social values and preferences. In this way, theatre can be presented as a hypermedium, the home of all arts. A space where the artistic forms of theatre, opera and dance meet and come into tune with the borderline territories of fine arts (photo-kinetic and electronic arts, installation, environment and performance art), with motion pictures and with media techniques interweaving all these approaches. The traditional conceptual triad of theatre-actor-spectator, clearly isolated from everyday life, loses its validity, with all three emerging instead from a theatrical space-time. It is our bound duty to bemoan the lost spaces as well – those homes of art that in recent years have been “played off” against the cultural sphere.