Phantasmal Theatricalities: The Spectre of the Public in the Work of Oscar Masotta and Dora García

Abstract

This article analyses the situation as an aesthetic category and a way of creating a public environment, relating it with the levels of representation and action. It examines the theatricality of the situation; that is, its specific representation mechanisms and the modes of relationship it poses. This approach is specified, at a historical level, through two different contexts: the reception of the happening in Argentina in the 1960s, promoted by Oscar Masotta, and the revival of the latter's work, by Dora García, through the project Segunda vez (2014-2018).