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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Karen works across film and theatre, creating work that has been screened and performed nationally and internationally. She was co-convenor of the Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) between 2017-2021. She is Co-editor of the Performance and Digital Cultures book series for Methuen Drama. Publications include Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance: Precarious Intermedial Identities (2022) (co-edited with Liam Jarvis), ‘Performance in the (K)now – Social Raportage and Rapport of Social Media in “Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North”’, International Journal for Performance and Digital Media, 15 (3) (2019), William W. Lewis and Sonali Pahwa (eds); Economies of Collaboration in Performance: More Than the Sum of the Parts by Karen Savage and Dominic Symonds (2018); ‘Deference, Deferred: Rejourn as Practice in Familial War Commemoration’ co-authored with Justin Smith in Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration , Michael Pinchbeck and Andrew Westerside (eds) (2018). 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. Karen works across film and theatre, creating work that has been screened and performed nationally and internationally. She was co-convenor of the Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) between 2017-2021. She is Co-editor of the Performance and Digital Cultures book series for Methuen Drama. Publications include Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance: Precarious Intermedial Identities (2022) (co-edited with Liam Jarvis), ‘Performance in the (K)now – Social Raportage and Rapport of Social Media in “Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North”’, International Journal for Performance and Digital Media, 15 (3) (2019), William W. Lewis and Sonali Pahwa (eds); Economies of Collaboration in Performance: More Than the Sum of the Parts by Karen Savage and Dominic Symonds (2018); ‘Deference, Deferred: Rejourn as Practice in Familial War Commemoration’ co-authored with Justin Smith in Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration , Michael Pinchbeck and Andrew Westerside (eds) (2018). 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. Klappentext 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 bot...
List of contents
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 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: Theatre's 'Loss of Face': The Levinasian Problem of Face-to-Face Encounters Mid-pandemicAmbivalent Otherness: Face Ethics Mid-lockdown
Patching 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 Worship
Resilience 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 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 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 Lensa
Avatar Band Members in Aespa
The Metaverse
Conclusion: Meta-Resilience & the 'New Normal'EndnotesReferencesIndex
About the author
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.
