AAPPAC Keynote
The Digital Turn of the Post Pandemic Theatre: A Primal Investigation and Case Studies of Online Theatre in Taiwan
The speaker has researched over 80 online theatrical performances from 11 countries in Europe, Asia, and America since the outbreak of COVID-19, how theatre practitioner strives to create a "virtual theater space that allows isolated audiences to gather virtually" and "allows the re-experience and re-recognition of the 'liveness' and 'co-presence' in theater" through cloud-based performance models.
The speaker will also share insights from two case studies on digitally mediated performances in Taiwan. They are the online performance platform "Cloud Theatre Taiwan" that facilitates participatory digital theatre in 2021 and a series of interactive online performances by "the If Children's Theatre Troupe." Through these two case studies, how the post-pandemic online experimentation might have redefined the sense of "liveness," developed a new mode of theatrical industry, and thereby pushing forward another digital turn in theatre history and historiography will be examined.
Sep 4 (Wed) 10:30 @ Globe Playhouse
Speaker：Katherine Hui-ling Chou (Taipei)
Distinguished Professor of English Dept. at National Central University
※ AAPPAC keynote is exclusive to conference participants. You’re welcome to register for the AAPPAC 2024 Conference.
