Liveness- performance in a mediatised culture

The irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live perforance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

theatre and the media: rivals or partners. at the level of cultural economy, theatre(and live performance generally) and the mass media that our current cultural formation is saturated with, and dominated by, mass media representations in general, and television in particular.

Television not only remediates not only live performance but film, in a way that film has never remediated television. Although television was originally dependent on cinematic technology for its own reproduction, the advent of videotape liberated television and gave it the means of transforming film into a televisual discourse to the point that, by now, much of our experience of “film” is actually a televisual experience. Television translates previous forms (theatre, film, radio) and recombines them”(Dienst 1994)