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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255254303321

Autore

Papagiannouli Christina

Titolo

Political Cyberformance : The Etheatre Project / / by Christina Papagiannouli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57704-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 122 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

790

Soggetti

Performing arts

Computer simulation

Multimedia information systems

Motion pictures and television

Theater

Performing Arts

Simulation and Modeling

Multimedia Information Systems

Screen Studies

Theatre and Performance Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A short organum for cyberformance : the Internet as an apparatus of communication -- Towards an online community-engaging and participatory theatre : participation, interaction and engagement -- The Etheatre Project : the director as discussion facilitator -- Conclusion: Political cyberformance. Past or future?

Sommario/riassunto

Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project examines the use of Internet platforms as theatrical, rehearsal and performance spaces and explores the interactive and political potentials of online theatre, questioning the boundaries of these in-between spaces and the spatial experiences they cause. In a political cyberformance, the role of the director is to promote real-time discussion between the audience and the performers via a chat box and assist the active participation of spectators in the performance. In particular, I look at forms of cyber-



adaptation, cyber-ethnotheatre and cyber-collaboration as directing methodologies for producing dialectical forms of political cyberformances, with reference to the productions of Cyberian Chalk Circle (2011), Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear (2012) and Etheatre Project and Collaborators (2014), respectively.