Archives of The Future

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Archives of the Future gathered several artistic archival projects of the pandemic and highlighted the common urge to document the pandemic. By focussing on these exemplary projects, this part of the exhibition explored the temporality of the pandemic as a state of exception: what does it mean to remember the pandemic, and how do we imagine alternative futures for the theatre beyond this moment?

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THEATRE LETTERS

“Theatre Letters” gathered missives by theatre makers from around from around the world that reported on how the pandemic affected the arts in their region. “Theatre Letters” was a cooperation of nachtkritik.de and the Freie Universität Berlin.

FUTURE STAGE MANIFESTO

“FutureSTAGE Manifesto”  is an international initiative by metalab@Harvard to sketch the parameters for performance in a hyperconnected world. It brought together artists and researchers to collaborate on creating a manifesto for digital theatre.

Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe’s “Journal of the Plague Year” (1722) is a fictionalised eyewitness account of the 1665 London plague that was a historical example of artistic interventions into documenting pandemic experiences.

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The Viral Theatres Research Project is a collaboration of the EXC2020 Temporal Communities at the Freie Universität Berlin, the EXC Matters of Activityas well as Gamelab.berlin at Humboldt University Berlin & Bard College Berlin; the research project was generously funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. We also cooperated with the following partners for its final exhibition and symposium: Nachtkritik.de, metalab@Harvard & FU Berlin.

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