Generar memoria: Propuestas escénicas «in situ» concebidas a partir de la antigua penitenciaría, actualmente Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí

Elva Araceli González Juárez

Authors

Elva Araceli González Juárez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament de Teoria i Història de l'Arquitectura i Tècniques de Comunicació. Barcelona, España.

Keywords:

Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, theatre space, reuse of spaces, non-theatre space, in situ theatre, memory

Abstract

The Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí (CEART) is located in a former penitentiary, designed following the architectural model of the panopticon. It was subject to a restoration process that sought to find a balance between the preservation of heritage and the reconversion of the building to house multiple artistic events.

Since it opened, the CEART has been the setting for several theatre productions within the fora conceived for this purpose. However, theatre devices related to architecture have also emerged related to the architecture and memory of the site. A synergy has been created in which the performing arts, architecture and the city feed into each other, and where borders are beginning to blur, encouraging reflection in each of these fields.