The pandemic is creating the conditions for a new telos of globalisation to emerge in humanity’s historical consciousness, which is not expressed in ideological terms, but is instead rendered as a fluid reality of corporeality and virtuality structured by the …
Tag: Internet Theatre
The Internet as a Performance Medium
‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’
(Groys 2018, p.174)
Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March …
To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …
Crave at Chichester Festival
I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I’m still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed …
Virtual Vade Mecum Salons
The limitations of lockdown meant that MA/MFA students at Rose Bruford had to create online pieces to share their performative writing. Despite the challenges, I was amazed by the level of theatricality they achieved with just a laptop and some …