Viral Theatres

Stages, audiences, artistic practices, the public sphere itself: how do they become transformed when theater in the pandemic turns into a space of standstill or disruption?

Viral Theatres is a practice-based research project in collaboration with »Object Space Agency« that documents the emergence of new realities for and in theater and performance practice. We explore the novel split in how we produce, make present and experience cultural production that is shaped by a combination of theater closures and a migration into the digital sphere. What happens to embodied exchange, collaboration and liveness in this current context? In our applied research project, artists and scholars come together to build a »living archive« of the pandemic and to experiment with gaming, narrating and experiencing performance in an expanded digital or hybrid sphere.

More information here can be found here: https://viraltheatres.org/