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TRANSMEDIA ARTS
SPEAKERS: Vicky Angelaki, Mid-Sweden University; Christiane Kühl, doubleluckyproductions
How can we think about the pandemic as part of the Anthropocene? Does the social paradigm shift that the pandemic brought provide a blueprint for addressing climate change and what role do theatre and performance play in this context? Drawing on their own research and artistic production respectively, Vicky Angelaki and Christiane Kühl will discuss digitality in environmental performance practices, data and the arts, and what constitutes digital theatre ecologies.
This event is part of the Symposium Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures, which is taking place at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin and online from April 28- April 30, 2022.
Vicky Angelaki is Professor of English Literature at Mid Sweden University (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences). In 2022 she is also Visiting Professor (Research) at Sapienza Università di Roma. She was previously based in the United Kingdom for a number of years (Birmingham City University; University of Birmingham; University of Reading). Major publications include the monographs Theatre & Environment (2019), Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis (2017), The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (2012), and the edited collection Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (2013; 2016). She co-edits the series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (with Kara Reilly). Her next monograph will be Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire (Routledge). She is currently working on the research project Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden). The project will result in an open-access monograph.
Christiane Kühl is the co-artistic director for doublelucky productions together with the video designer Chris Kondek and various other changing artistic collaborators. They have developed a range of installations and performance projects at a national and international level that focus on the invisible infrastructures that govern social life, such as High Frequency Trading, Social Profiling or Affective Computing. Christiane Kühl is also a journalist and editor and currently is the editorial project lead of Weiter Schreiben., A Portal for Literature from War and Crisis Zones.
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The Viral Theatres-Research Project, a collaboration of the Free University, the Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin, is funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. The Opening Events are co-financed by the research project “Extended Audiences” in the Research Area “Travelling Matters” at the EXC2020 “Temporal Communities” and take place with kind support from the metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard’s Transmedia Arts Seminar, and the Open Society University Networks.
