To our enemies. Reflections on audience

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the constitution of the audience, understood as an interlocutor in action, based on two different stories. The first one is an improvised dialogue by the artistic duet Los Torreznos, in La caverna (2012), in which the audience was their object of observation; the other one is extracted from the analysis made by the Comité Invisible about the occupation movement in squares all over the world since 2008. The objective is to confront two different approaches of audience – scenic and esthetic, on one hand, and social and political, on the other – and trace an inward and outward journey between scene and street, considering both spaces as mechanisms of action and representation, operating differently before the political and economic order, reinforced since 1990.