ABSTRACT
The theatre and the exhibition both construct an island of the extraordinary, a situation where physical presence is essential. For that reason, both require moving to a place that has been charged with meaning for a specific occasion. This loop, away from ordinary life and back again, full of anticipation, transects a locus of discourse and constitutes the fundamental condition of narrative space. The theatre and the exhibition invite the visitor to their worlds. The Internet and television bring the world to his or her home. The distinction is a matter of who or what is moving. Both the Internet and television dwell on the periphery of the commonplace. The theatre and the exhibition derive their transformative potential from the intensity of a wellconsidered HERE in which two movements join, a physical and a mental one. This is what Bazon Brock was referring to when he spoke of the unity of ‘course’ and ‘discourse’: on the waves of the course, the mind focuses on the discourse.1 Peripatetically. Herein lies the difference: the Internet and television deconstruct totality into singularities, whereas the theatre and the exhibition create a totality out of singularities. In the fabric of experience the Internet and television mark an end point, while the theatre and the exhibition establish a crossing.
