Viral Theatres' Pandemic Playbook - Documenting German theatre during COVID-19. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mosse, Ramona; Janke, Janina; König, Judith; Stein, Christian; Tecklenburg, Nina
• Is Part Of: International journal of performance arts and digital media. Volume 18:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 105
• Page End: 127
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Pandemic archiving -- digital liveness -- VR theatres -- digital collaboration -- participation; Performance art -- Periodicals; Performance art -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Digital media; Performance art; Periodicals; 700.285
• DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2022.2031800
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-0934

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This document offers an overview of the artistic research project Viral Theatres, which documents the radical changes in theatre aesthetics and infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic by building an online multimedia living archive that tracks these developments in interviews, video documentaries, rehearsal residencies, and case studies. Through a survey of five exemplary case studies we show how significantly the tools and practices of theatre have shifted during the pandemic and suggest that these examples belong to a reconceptualization of the idea of theatre per se . In creating an online Living Archive platform that makes these and other case studies and pandemic material accessible, Viral Theatres contributes to creative documentation of pandemic culture.