New Performing Sites Searching to Become Third Places: Communicating through Culture after the Economic Crisis

• Main Author: Elena SV Flys
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hyperion University 2015-10-01
• Series: HyperCultura
• Subjects: communication; theatre; third places; community building; Generation X; economic crisis
• Online Access: http://litere.hyperion.ro/hypercultura/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Vizcaino-Elena.pdf

Abstract The purpose of this article is to explore the important role of the arts to communicate and share with others. As Arts Managers, we study the impact of arts and how they engage audience members and their community. This paper analyzes the consequences of the Spanish economic crisis on the arts and the appearance of new spaces where audience members encounter art and a community. In order to carry out this study, several interviews with companies and new cultural spaces in Spain were carried out. Through five case studies we will explore who develops these new places and why, their characteristics and how they respond to the needs of the 21st century audience members. It also explains why these new venues are searching to become third places where artists and audience members can grow as human beings. Some of the conclusions of this project suggest that these new venues were created to help people encounter themselves with the arts, but they also point out the idea that changes in how people consume cultural activities are happening, which are provoking a shift in the way we produce and present them.