Paper short abstract:

The main aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of public space as a collection of images and a site of ephemeral representations that gives us a glimpse of an aleatory artistic performance

Paper long abstract:

The main aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of public space as a collection of images and a site of ephemeral representations that gives us a glimpse of an aleatory artistic performance. Thus, one can conceive public space as a representation of social relationships between people that are mediated by images. Consequently it is through a physical space that people organise their own personal trajectory. Therefore, space can be analysed as an archive of the way each one builds up reality, reinventing their own life by giving meaning to their actions. Within this idea, one can argue that actions taking part in public spaces are performed according to shared rules within a known set of applications. Hence a polarisation effect is similar on a stage and on a daily life: there is always an interchange of roles between the "performer" (the promoter of the action) and the spectator (the witness of the action); and that interchange is crucial to the creation of a symbolic system. In this scope, all kinds of spaces are - potentially - scenic spaces. It appears that there is a semiotic and meaningful correspondence between scenic space and public spaces. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the phenomenological and aesthetic approach to "performative spaces It also questions performance art as an event that promotes an interruption of daily-life routine and creates different perspectives of how life can be interpreted.