"A timely examination of the survival instinct of practitioners and audiences engaged in theatre-making and theatre-going in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores the paradoxical tension that has emerged between a disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on online modes of practice. It identifies blindspots and ethical dilemmas that the shift to online and technologized practices may be engendering by assessing performances from emerging theatre-makers and participatory online theatre productions. Performances discussed include Thaddeus Phillips' Zoom Motel, Handle with Care and Tania El Khoury's As Far As Isolation Goes"--
Covid-19 has been described as a 'digital pandemic'. But who might the characterisation of the pandemic as 'digital' leave behind? This timely book reconsiders the pandemic as 'postdigital', examining tensions between a growing postdigital attitude of disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on adapted modes of online practice mid-lockdown in both performance-making and healthcare.
What emerged amidst the pandemic restrictions was a theatre that was unable to show its face, instead adapting into a variety of 'covid-safe' remote forms of engagement, from 'Zoom plays' to self-generating experiences sent by post. This book explores the ways that both performances and healthcare practices found proxies for direct touch and face-to-face encounters, deconstructing the way that care and resilience were spectacularized by political actors online.
Liam Jarvis and Karen Savage explore aspects of care in relation to technology, spectacle and facilitation, and how new modes of delivery and the repurposing of theatre spaces that were displaced amidst the mass migration online have been enabling as well as controversial. The variety of case studies assessed includes internet memes, online films, performances of everyday resilience through social media and participatory theatre productions, including Thaddeus Phillips' Zoom Motel, Coney's Telephone and Nightcap's Handle with Care.
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As theatre and performance struggle to emerge in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Postdigital Performances of Care provides a distinct lens through which to review our collective experiences and to reimagine possibilities for the future. Critical, insightful and compassionate throughout, the book reflects on the many meanings of care and challenges us to reconsider the "new normal". The authors present a compelling provocation for the field and how we might rethink performance itself in the current context. * Sarah Bay-Cheng, York University, Canada *
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A timely and critical exploration of issues of care and performance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Editors Preface
Opening Provocation: Soft Spaces; Hard Edges
By Proto-type Theater
Introduction: A Postdigital Pandemic?
Chapter 1: Spectacles of Resilience: Postdigital
Online Theatre & Mid-pandemic Resilience
A Postdigital Attitude: Blind Spots in Digital Culture
Vacant Theatres as Nightingale Courtrooms
Theatre as Social Services: Slung Low & Holbeck Food Bank
Chapter 2: Theatres Loss of Face: The Levinasian Problem of Face-to-Face
Encounters Mid-pandemic
Ambivalent Otherness: Face Ethics Mid-lockdown
Patching into the Past: Coneys Telephone
Lockdown as a Hotel Room Without a Door: Thaddeus Phillips Zoo Motel
Chapter 3: The Spectacularization of Care Online
Performing Handshakes: From Defiant Gestural Retail Politics to Bioweapon
Performing Applause: From Doorstep Clapping to Anti-Hero Worship
Resilience Optics: Surveillance Technologies as Care Symbols in Drone
Captain Tom
Chapter 4: Digital Care & Pandemic
Care Ethics in Post-internet Cultures: Caring about & Caring for
Caring About Expanded: Webs of Interdependencies
What Counts as Digital Care?
Care as Virtue Signaling on Social Media?
Detached Touch: Posting About as Caring About?
Care and Memory in Miguel Angel Muńoz and Luisa Cantero's 100 Days with Tata
Regressing in Care: Russell Howards Home Time
Theatre as Care Package: Nightcaps Handle With Care
Chapter 5: Digital Twins, Avatars & the Metaverse
AI-generated Avatars on Lensa
Avatar Band Members in Aespa
The Metaverse
Conclusion: Meta-Resilience & the New Normal
Endnotes
References
Index
Liam Jarvis is a theatre-maker, practitioner-researcher, Co-director of the Centre for Theatre Research (CTR) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK.
Karen Savage is Head of Arts, Culture and Heritage for the College of Arts and Professor of Creative and Collaborative Arts at the University of Lincoln, UK.
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