Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking

photography has its function in warding off death, postponing it. photography can make present the dead while at the same time photographic representation brings out death in what is living by turning living into an image that represents the living as always already dead. This character of always already being dead has to be countered by, suppressed by, or obscured through strategies of life-likeness that obscure the difference between sign and referent. if successfully obscured, this results in a representation, but as presence here and now.