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Postdigital Performances of Care: Technology & Pandemic: Performance and Digital Cultures

Autor Liam Jarvis, Karen Savage
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 ian 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350272101
ISBN-10: 1350272108
Pagini: 134
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Performance and Digital Cultures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Features case studies of performances that navigate the tension between reaching audiences in their homes alongside the complex ethical entanglements that arise with the pivot to online practices

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceOpening Provocation: Soft Spaces; Hard EdgesBy Proto-type TheaterIntroduction: A 'Postdigital Pandemic'?Chapter 1: Spectacles of Resilience: PostdigitalOnline Theatre & Mid-pandemic ResilienceA Postdigital Attitude: Blind Spots in Digital CultureVacant Theatres as Nightingale CourtroomsTheatre as Social Services: Slung Low & Holbeck Food BankChapter 2: Theatre's 'Loss of Face': The Levinasian Problem of Face-to-Face Encounters Mid-pandemicAmbivalent Otherness: Face Ethics Mid-lockdownPatching into the Past: Coney's TelephoneLockdown as a Hotel Room Without a Door: Thaddeus Phillips' Zoo MotelChapter 3: The Spectacularization of Care OnlinePerforming Handshakes: From Defiant Gestural Retail Politics to 'Bioweapon'Performing Applause: From Doorstep Clapping to Anti-Hero WorshipResilience Optics: Surveillance Technologies as Care Symbols in 'Drone Captain Tom'Chapter 4: Digital Care & PandemicCare Ethics in Post-internet Cultures: 'Caring about' & 'Caring for''Caring About' Expanded: Webs of InterdependenciesWhat Counts as 'Digital Care'?Care as 'Virtue Signaling' on Social Media?Detached Touch: 'Posting About' as 'Caring About'?Care and Memory in Miguel Angel Muñoz and Luisa Cantero's 100 Days with TataRegressing in Care: Russell Howard's Home TimeTheatre as Care Package: Nightcap's Handle With CareChapter 5: Digital Twins, Avatars & the MetaverseAI-generated Avatars on LensaAvatar Band Members in AespaThe MetaverseConclusion: Meta-Resilience & the 'New Normal'EndnotesReferencesIndex

Recenzii

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.