근대의 헤테로토피아, 극장

Abstract

The modern theater is one of the most effectible cultural space from among imported goods. The theater as an architecture overcame both movability and changeability of Korean traditional theatre; and allowed people to experience new culture. The theater as a stationary space moved the criterion of the premodern value, such as an individual/a group, reality/irreality, and sex/gender; moreover, spectators were brought up as not only a wishful individual but the public enjoying the modern everyday life. Especially, the theater of the early modern age was the space of heterotopia that the individual’s secret desire was satisfied in the colonial period. Spectators learned the new way of their life and sense of values; besides, tried actualizing the desire outside the theater. They considered the theater as a space for instruction showing themselves a national and racial crisis through the drama and the film; it was the space, however, that constantly roused the individual’s desire for everyday life. In short, the modern theater was the fittest space in which spectators were culturally trained for being reborn as modernists under the rule of Japanese imperialism. They came to find themselves and look at others; therefore, they could change themselves into the culturally modern public.