Viral Theatres Symposium
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Viral Theatres brought together its research findings in a symposium with international artists and researchers at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin in April 2022.
DIGITAL & HYBRID SPACES – THURS, APR 28th, 2022
Day 1 focused on specific digital theatre projects that have managed to create new worlds and formats, have imagined the role of remote audiences and experimented with streaming beyond the mere idea of broadcasting. How have these performances been developed and what effects did working digitally have on future work processes generally?
Hybrid Games: Turbo Pascal meets Interrobang
Eva Plischke & Angela Löer & Janina Janke (Turbo Pascal)
Nina Tecklenburg & Lajos Talamonti (Interrobang)
Round Table on Digital Liveness
Moderated by Ramona Mosse
with Lasse Scheiba (Schauspiel Düsseldorf), Tillmann Drews (Junges DT), Cosmea Spelleken (punktlive), Jonny Hoff (punktlive)
THE PANDEMIC & SOCIETY – FRI, APR 29th, 2022
Day 2 focused on the political dimension of the pandemic and the radical restrictions on social encounters of any kind and the public sphere at large. How do we have to rethink theatre’s structures and institutions to allow digitality in the arts to flourish and to enable geographically dispersed artistic practice? How does performance address new precarities and questions of trauma, loss, and grief? But also, how can we think about the pandemic as part of the Anthropocene?
Pandemic Grief and Other Digital Feelings
Moderated by Lindsey Drury, with David Harradine (Fevered Sleep/Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck, London University)
Expanded Theatre: Infrastructures for Digital Performances
Moderated by Doris Kolesch
with Thomas Fabian Eder (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Rainer Simon (Komische Oper), Anna Krauß (HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater), Ingo Sawilla (Berliner Ensemble)
The Pandemic and the Anthropocene
Moderated by Ramona Mosse, with Vicky Angelaki (Mid-Sweden University) and Christiane Kühl (doublelucky productions)
POST/PANDEMIC FUTURES – SAT, APRIL 30th, 2022
What is the future of theatre in the post/pandemic? Day 3 explored this question in series of workshops and conversations, that asked: How can we imagine theatre and performance differently? Which new paths do we want embark on? What is the potential of Virtual Reality as another alternate stage?
Mediaturgy to Virality: What Concepts Do We Need for Post/Pandemic Performance?
Moderated by Torsten Jost with Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College Annandale) and Seda Ilter (Birkbeck, University of London)
Virtual Stages: XR in performance
Moderated by Christian Stein with Sarah Ellis (Royal Shakespeare Company), Tina Lorenz (Staatstheater Augsburg), Björn Lengers (Cyberräuber), Chris Ziegler (movingimages.de)
Theatre’s Hybrid Futures
Moderated by Nina Tecklenburg with Christian Rakow (Nachtkritik), Magda Romanska (Harvard metalab; theatretimes.com), Ulf Otto (LMU)
VIRAL THEATRES
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.
