What is Hybridity

This is a fundamental part of what a space new and different from typical arts centres, particularly those presenting more traditional forms of work than CarriageWorks was designed for. For me Hybrid work is that which looks to engage audiences in a new way with the works presented.

So there is a different relationship between Arts, Audience and the Space.

The space might be a driving force for the creation of the work; or the audiences might interact in a new way - a way that is not just sitting in a darkened theatre on the receiving end of the performance; and the art may be non-traditional. However I do not think it has to be non-traditional. But if you think of the three elements (Arts, Audience and Space) as being an interrelated triangle then at the work has to be effected by the others. So you could present an orchestra for example, but the audience might sing with them; or the leader might have specific reason to work in the space.

Hybrid is therefore different from inter-disciplinary work, because that type of contemporary practice is bring different types of arts/practice together while hybridity must involve the audience and has a relationship to the space.