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Editorial: Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance
Theatre Research International ; 48(1):2023/08/02 00:00:00.000, 2023.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2234407
ABSTRACT
In an article entitled ‘All the Screen's a Stage A Transmedia Manifesto', theatre artist Jared Mezzocchi draws attention to digital theatre's potential to reform the institution and build an ‘anti-racist, anti-oppressive, accessible theatre'.3 In his ardent call to challenge an oppositional logic of in-person versus digital theatre, Mezzocchi notes that ‘the emergence of digital platforming over the pandemic provides us [with] the opportunity to redefine and recontextualize space, gathering, inclusion, and connectivity that tears at the fabric of gatekeeping'. Auslander argues that ‘the live' is historically and semiotically dependent on the recorded, and that ‘genuine liveness' lacks technological intervention;4 for Phelan ‘a performance's only life is in the present'.5 However, as Auslander has also argued with reference to the updated edition of Liveness Performance in a Mediatized Culture (2008), ‘the historicity of the concept of liveness, the way that the idea of what counts culturally as live experience changes over time in relation to technological change'.6 This becomes especially apparent in the context of (post-)pandemic theatre and performance liveness is, similarly to the live theatre broadcasting context, not to be seen as anchored in the nature of the original but is to be regarded as a ‘condition of viewing'.7 Watching a performance or a recording of a performance together with others is thus constitutive of ‘digital liveness'. [...]Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance draws attention to the intertwining of presence and precarity in (post-)pandemic theatre and performance to outline the variety of such displacements, vulnerabilities and insecurities and the effects they have on theatre practice and criticism. Integrating both critical articles and video essays, this special issue also presents an invitation to reflect on and potentially expand the possibilities of critical practice. Since 2020, a number of publications have taken on the task of responding to developments in what has been variously termed viral, pandemic and digital theatre.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Theatre Research International Year: 2023 Document Type: Article