Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures
Exhibition Organized Together with ExC Temporal Communities
How hybrid is the future of theatre? In what ways has the pandemic changed how we work in theatre and gather in it as a public space?
We would like to invite you to the exhibition Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures as we explore these questions. The exhibition opening and symposium took stock of how pandemic time has moved from a state of exception to new normality between viral outbreak and containment and what that means for theatrical productions.
In the exhibition, our artistic research project Viral Theatres offers a look into the »Living Archive« we have been gathering to document new forms and contents of pandemic theatre-making and audience experience via interviews, rehearsal shadowing, video documentation and digital interactions.
The symposium consisted of workshops, roundtable discussions and a VR performance; in it, they brought together international theatre practitioners and scholars to discuss aesthetics, infrastructures, and hybrid as well as digital artistic practices. Among the participants were Anna Krauß (HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer), Rainer Simon (Komische Oper Berlin), Sarah Ellis (Royal Shakespeare Company), Magda Romanska (metaLab@Harvard), Christian Rakow (nachtkritik.de), Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck) and the two performance collectives »Turbo Pascal« und »punktlive«. In addition, the independent performance group »Interrobang« showed Deep Godot, a one-to-one performance with an AI that explores the ambivalences of artificial intelligence. The performance collective »Fevered Sleep« will present their project This Grief Thing.
The accompanying exhibition runs until June 3rd, 2022. Come visit Monday to Friday between 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm!
Organizers
Ramona Mosse
Janina Janke
Christian Stein &
Nina Tecklenburg
The Viral Theatres-Research Project, a collaboration of the Free University, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bard College Berlin, is funded by the »VolkswagenFoundation«. The Opening Events are co-financed by the research project »Extended Audiences« in the RA »Travelling Matters« at the EXC2020 »Temporal Communities« and take place with kind support from the metalab@Harvard, the Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Centers, and the Open Society University Networks.
Tieranatomisches Theater
Campus Nord, Haus 3
Philippstraße 13
10115 Berlin