PerformingDigital.Studio
What happens when theatres go digital?
Performance and Digital Culture is a collaborative course which takes place at various campuses around the world. The campuses collaborate in the exploration of digitality and performance, and the creation of digital theatrical artworks. The course has transformed over the years.
This website, called PerformingDigital.Studio, gathers and shows the Performance and Digital Culture course experiences on how theatre and performance as live embodied practices and forms of communal encounter have permanently changed due to extended lockdowns, social distancing, and pandemic health restrictions.
Together we investigate the new dispersed digital formats that have expanded our idea of theatre, and how do these new networked performance experiences have altered common social and cultural functions of theatre.
The digital landscape has a profound impact on our lives and influences various aspects of cultural and artistic expression. Performance and Digital Culture delves into these transformative changes, both in theory and practice, going into the aesthetics, inclusivity, and engagement, as well as the ethical and societal dimensions of digital performances.
By bringing together institutions from different regions, Performance and Digital Culture introduces a rich diversity of perspectives, experiences, and cultural backgrounds. This diversity is invaluable in broadening the horizons of students and faculty alike, exposing them to viewpoints and approaches that they might not encounter otherwise.
We now invite you to navigate the sections that explain further WHO we are, our LOCATIONS and the TIMELINE of the course, all the areas showing the course experiences in ASSIGNMENTS, IN-PERSON COLLABORATIONS, WORKSHOPS, and the section called VIRAL THEATRES showing a practice-based research project by Janina Janke, Judith Konig, Ramona Mosse, Christina Stein, and Nina Tecklenburg, that documents the emergence of new realities for and in theatre and performance practice.