Open AccessIssues of Participatory Digital Theatre. Reflections on Three Forms Developed during the Pandemic
Author(s) -
Éliane Beaufils
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
itinera
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2039-9251
DOI - 10.54103/2039-9251/16933
Subject(s) - empathy , citizen journalism , subjectivity , space (punctuation) , zoom , pandemic , sociology , aesthetics , videoconferencing , dimension (graph theory) , media studies , psychology , visual arts , covid-19 , art , multimedia , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , engineering , world wide web , medicine , petroleum engineering , philosophy , mathematics , pathology , operating system , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics , lens (geology)
This article studies three participatory theatre-forms on zoom. It aims at analyzing what kind of participation is possible in the space of video-conferencing, which is both located in a private room and at a distance. These theatres seem able to interpellate the audience on a cognitive as well as a social and even an affective level. Each apparatus focuses on a different dimension, be it imagination, empathy or criticality. Yet the interactions result in an experience that is anchored in the social and sensitive subjectivity. The enable the audience to reflect on an array of issues that are far from limited to the pandemic.