Germaine Kruip: The World’s An Empty Stage

Germaine Kruip: The World’s An Empty Stage

The artist proposes an expanded theatre where light is the principal performer In his lecture series The Empty Space (1968), theatre director Peter Brook argued that the only ‘interesting difference between the cinema and the theatre’ was that cinema ‘flashes onto a screen images from the past’, whereas theatre ‘always asserts itself in the present’. Unconvinced by this restrictive distinction, avant-garde filmmakers during the 1970s reduced cin…