Ilya & Emilia Kabakov : installation & theater, Munich : Prestel 2006

p. 13       (faisant référence à Michael Fried, Art and objecthood, essay and review, 1998) any installation represents a theatricalization of art, that signifies a transference of attention from a work of art as such to its staging, similar to how attention is switched from a product offered for sale to its advertisement or packaging.

[...] KABAKOV : Theater is that place where, siting in the seat and looking at the stage, we find ourselves drawn into something without our consent, we lose the ability to comprehend, we lose the will and capability for reflexion. (Ensuite il fait référence entre autre à Brecht qui malgré la distanciation reste dans les règles du théâtre, ne révolutionne pas tout le rapport scène/salle)

p.14-15    GROYS : Does that mean that you want to return to the sacred aura of the theater? But just in the same way the churches themselves were transfrmed virtually into tourist attractions or into museum, the theatrical aura became an element of entertainment and its now impossible to reconstruct it just like it was. (installation --> return of sacred experience)