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    Forms Themes Histories Politics Philosophies

    Worstward Ho

    Andrew Sofer     		poetry absence memory Beckett fathers children echo voice walking mothers personal

    Kid Ends Play

    Open Rudi Goblen     		drama spectacle tragedy animal crowd queer everyday goat

    Someone has to take out the garbage

    Open beck haberstroh     		dialogue fragment short story comedy fable folk tale horror humor authorship children computers domestic dreams embodiment escape excess fantasy love maternity music myth queer ecology paternity artificial intelligence reproduction thought experiment

    Exorcism

    Open Yanira Castro     		community theatre dance instructions participatory repetition street theatre code score performance score communal construction audience authorship agency identity colonization decolonization power collectivity computers american puerto rican boricua diaspora activism government documents redaction erasure absurdist critique

    Performance strategies for more-than-human audiences

    Open Katie Schetlick and Zena Bibler     		image experiment dance instructions participatory audience time space humanity non-human food landscape feeling affect survival disruption ecology dance play place imagination attention possibility collaboration consciousness humiliation spectatorship embodiment decay fictional non-human feminist anthropocene environmental colonial ecology phenomenology thought experiment ethics materialism

    Time lost along the way: Gone or Lost?

    Open Jared Onyango     		story repetition affect anarchy blackness agency decolonization design embodiment everyday disruption identity immateriality immersive humanity myth network past race reality rehearsal representation ritual time virtuality witnessing future afrofuturism local afrofuturism epistemology semiotics

    Nobody Sees Hamlet

    Open Billy Mullaney     		drama spectacle fragment tragedy acting language memory representation dramatic theory communication absence editing loss art redaction shakespeare thought experiment epistemology semiotics

    TRASH ONLY (B.S.)

    Open Jason Rodriguez     		dialogue alienation brownness class everyday excess garbage

    Crankie

    Open Honglan Huang     		image monologue repetition scroll postdramatic puppetry absence Beckett body consciousness embodiment imagination immersive impossibility language light loss non-human pain paper mind repetition stillness trauma surface shadow skin voice writing

    Remembered Theatres

    Open Patrick Scorese     		repetition absence affect catastrophe excess forgetting landscape memory possibility history hauntology mourning effigy burial

    Cubist Theater

    Open Diane Glancy     		fragment poetry statement absence american animal catastrophe colonization dust ecology Environmental indigeneity memory massacre biblical american native american indigenous

    Goodbye... a note from a country that no longer exists

    Open Nevena Mrdjenovic     		memoir image absence social media war catastrophe domestic trauma memory home former Yugoslavia

    Éxodo / Exodus

    Chile Iván Insunza     		revolution politics the people utopia representation utopia

    Qué todo arda / May Everything Burn

    Chile Colectivo LASTESIS     		video collage stop-motion representation politics disruption fragment revolution Chile collage animation history

    Idea

    Chile Guillermo Calderón     		trauma protest politics police violence incarceration Chile Chile

    Un Cuento Para Niñas / A Tale for Girls

    Chile Carla Zúñiga     		story fairy tale feminism grotesque otherness women storytelling wolf children feminism

    Lengua materna / Mother tongue

    Curating Shoshana Polanco     		poetry backstage collectivity colonization communication community decolonialization decolonization disruption diversity domestic dramaturgy dreams ethnicity everyday exclusion future generations global humanity identity imagination independence indigeneity individuality landscape listening loss love maternity memory migration music otherness pain network past patriarchy place play playwriting politics possibility power race representation ritual speech storytelling street culture trauma vulnerability writing aboriginal american colonial environmental indigenous local post-colonial post-colonial epistemology

    Toward a New Curation

    Curating Philip Bither     		analysis climate change curation audience ecology power future age presence gender collectivity art binaries denial now opaque interpersonal scholarship institutional fearlessness formalist museum capitalism utopia race

    The Storehouse: A Live Magazine [Manifesto Excerpt]

    Curating Tom Sellar     		experiment festival manifesto magazine non-fiction participatory spectacle workshop curation collaboration dramaturgy failure fantasy value venue writing

    Yeah, I Said It. Suck Your Mum.

    Curating Tobi Kyeremateng     		song critique lyric essay story art blackness censorship disruption generations identity imagination language migration music pain place politics race voice colonial popular activism class community identity

    How can we rehearse for a future we don’t have an image of?

    Curating Silvia Bottiroli, Low Kee Hong     		analysis critique dramaturgy lab report reenactment dialogue experiment festival fiction fragment game image instructions list manifesto non-fiction objects participatory summary agency art attention audience authorship beginning climate change code code switching collaboration coding collectivity community conceptual consciousness cooperation disruption diversity documentation dramaturgy dreams duration dystopia ecology festival future game global holistic humanity identity imagination politics possibility power preparation protest public queer rehearsal repetition representation ritual time transgender unconscious utopia value virtuality intersectionality future non-human entangled histories activism aesthetics capitalism class communism community democracy dystopia ecology feminism gender governmental identity labor analytic philosophy cultural studies feminism queer theory

    the theatre that I do not wish to imagine but wish to have

    Curating Brian Rogers     		fragment statement spectacle dance absence affect agency attention audience authorship boredom collaboration collectivity conceptual consciousness duration dystopia embodiment failure humiliation impossibility independence labor place possibility power repetition spectatorship time community

    The Fellowship

    Curating Erin Boberg Doughton     		community theatre dance experiment festival participatory collectivity friendship place ritual utopia

    performance score built with undated performance notes

    Curating Tara Aisha Willis     		stage directions dance fantasy science fiction speculative experiment fragment image instructions list objects poetry spectacle absence agency audience beginning black box blackness catastrophe climate change collectivity conceptual dance decolonialization disruption dreams dystopia embodiment end exclusion future generations humanity imagination impossibility language past place poetry politics possibility race rehearsal space spectatorship time utopia venue writing relation architecture museum apocalypse infastructure rhythm lineage gathering practice death movement archive arts event future aesthetics capitalism community ecology feminism post-colonial racism theatre thought experiment

    WHAT TIME IS IT?

    Curating Vincent de Repentigny     		experiment manual fragment instructions list repetition schedule boredom everyday ritual silence time alienation labor

    THE GLOSSARY

    Curating Lisa Gilardino, Eva Neklyaeva     		festival curatorial curation tarot water intuition divination dragons Magic dramaturgy

    The Flowers of Manshiyat Naser

    Curating Gundega Laiviņa     		image agency community light protest public landscape collectivity activism

    night dreaming

    Curating Amy Letman     		short story curation agency community dreams everyday independence disruption

    A Meniscus Around My Fingers

    Curating LJ Findlay-Walsh     		objects participatory spectacle stage directions story street theatre summary video workshop architecture experiment authorship conceptual everyday immersive interruption place play public intimacy aesthetics community

    feast

    Curating Maya Zbib     		fragment dramaturgy reenactment mythology instructions list manifesto participatory poetry absence actor affect agency art Artaud attention audience collectivity consciousness disruption diversity dramaturgy dreams duration embodiment feeling global identity imagination immersive language listening loss love memory myth past patriarchy place play poetry politics possibility power present public protest representation silence space speech stillness storytelling time vulnerability writing art aesthetics community democracy gender identity theatre feminism phenomenology semiotics

    WEST END EATS ITSELF IN GAY PC SNOWFLAKE BLOODBATH SHOCKER

    Curating Aaron Wright     		fiction humor mainstream theatre list report acting agency actor casting embodiment entertainment exclusion identity otherness queer representation trans

    Work-in-Progress

    Curating Pia Agrawal     		manifesto statement code switching consciousness decolonialization disruption diversity ethnicity failure humanity identity imagination impossibility individuality labor otherness patriarchy race representation silence whiteness arts activism feminism gender identity labor post-colonial racism ethics post-colonialism

    Wishful Thinking

    Curating Gideon Lester     		experiment speculative fiction community disruption dramaturgy fantasy festival future imagination impossibility utopia

    ingat (to take care)

    Curating Joyce Rosario     		experiment statement fragment memoir non-fiction poetry story age attention audience brownness children communication decolonization duration embodiment ethnicity feeling generations identity language liveness meditation memory ocean past place poetry practice present ritual road trip time travel vulnerability witnessing feminist personal identity post-colonial ontology phenomenology post-colonialism thought experiment

    Archives of a lost season

    Emergency Hollace Starr, Jonathan Snipes     		audio radio time future Chekhov The Cherry Orchard zoom server lost archaeology theatre future

    Dear Joan

    Emergency Emilie Collyer     		dialogue lyric essay dramaturgy speculative autobiography magical realism postdramatic drama experiment fragment instructions memoir monologue stage directions epistle absence affect agency attention audience authorship character consciousness domestic everyday failure fantasy feeling fiction imagination immersive loss mediation memory martyr feminism patriarchy place playwriting present representation ritual storytelling subjectivity vulnerability witnessing women arts australian colonial feminist fictional french aesthetics capitalism community feminism gender identity theatre actor network theory affect ethics feminism queer theory thought experiment

    Pneuma: Queer Telling

    Emergency Meiling Cheng     		image fantasy speculative fable folk tale legend prayer song story affect age animal attention beginning children catastrophe chorus circle communication community cooperation dance collectivity dreams ecology fantasy fiction future graphic novel imagination indigeneity identity love maternity memory myth non-human place play poetry power possibility public queer repetition rehearsal ritual signal sound silence breath storytelling survival utopia vulnerability weather time teaching witnessing anthropocene arts event environmental feminist future non-human activism aesthetics community dystopia feminism identity
    		improvisation mythology experimental theatre participatory song sound vision ancestry reincarnation spirituality performance art revolution sound dreams absence age animal beginning catastrophe children chorus circle communication consciousness community cooperation dance ecology embodiment failure feeling forgetting generations humanity imagination landscape language loss love memory music place present power ritual silence space speech survival time teaching unconscious voice vibe witnessing anthropocene future event activism community ecology

    The Age of Duse

    Emergency Katie Gough     		analysis dramaturgy humor autobiography biography mystery reference drama experiment fragment image non-fiction repetition absence acting actor affect age art attention audience catastrophe death disruption dramatic theory dramaturgy embodiment failure feeling film humanity imagination listening media Eleonora Duse meditation past reality repetition spectatorship survival teaching time hand feminist popular medieval fin de siècle cinematic aesthetics capitalism theatre twentieth century cultural studies thought experiment
    		artist statement lecture lecture absence death dying art disruption interdisciplinarity knnowledge media

    Cranes

    Emergency Itai Doron     		participatory score city music Haifa boat community duration construction deconstruction
    		landscape storytelling refugees city site-specific voice heterotopia

    500 Icons

    Emergency Christopher DeLaurenti     		artist statement autobiography experiment fragment instructions list monologue summary absence attention conceptual documentation identity listening occultism poetry repetition arts
    		experiment instructions list radio duration memory music repetition identity names

    I Mumble the Body Electric,
    or (i)Phone, (u)Phone

    Emergency Bess Rowen     		objects science fiction spectacle stage directions video collectivity computers embodiment internet media mediation non-human present representation subjectivity time virtuality non-human aesthetics capitalism identity labor capitalism epistemology phenomenology reception
    		borders computers future internet media

    The World Getting Smaller

    Emergency Catharine Cary     		experiment humor adventure diary saga flow game instructions repetition scenography art communication excess immersive improvisation scenography space writing inside-out reversal borders edges materiality feminist urban aesthetics process improvisation
    		artist statement agency attention audience collecting constraints collaboration installation space production repair improvisation emergency democracy visibility

    The City of Nedorazliva

    Emergency Rob Fellman     		code speculative postdramatic mystery experiment fiction instructions code coding computers conceptual fiction internet language media network non-human possibility signal simulation tool virtuality writing Gilles Deleuze game theory
    		analysis artist statement code experiment score abstraction coding chaos order Guy Debord dérive mystery originality found poetry language translation humanity algorithm garbage future reading score

    Couchscore

    Emergency Alessio Mazzaro, Francesco Dalmasso, Elisa D’Amico     		dance dialogue experiment video absence audience backstage broadcast documentation dramaturgy everyday internet playwriting public spectatorship venue
    		archive autobiography biography diary score tour instructions list experiment absence archive documentation score private privacy poetry everyday virtuality imagination materiality location flatness live streaming internet screen media visit homemade

    The Other Balcony per Genet
    (a scene without distance)

    Emergency Césaire Carroll-Domínguez, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez     		drama dialogue stage directions radio fragment song music opera quotation critique lyric essay dramaturgy lab report reenactment statement fantasy science fiction speculative manual mythology humor autobiography magical realism postdramatic fable folk tale legend prayer biography mystery reference adventure diary saga bildungsroman choose your own adventure comedy conceptual art docudrama dystopian ergodic erotica fairy tale historical fiction horror invoice melodrama meta fiction naturalism picaresque realism romance satire self-help speech television thriller tragedy tragi-comedy treatise weather report western witnessing
    		drama dramaturgy speculative spectacle violence sexual violence communication public playwriting impossibility patriarchy populism revolution indigeneity democracy fascism twentieth century theatre populism

    It would be about them

    Emergency Silvia Costa     		poetry stage directions magical realism biography dialogue escape room fragment memoir myth maternity blackness community memory past voice future absence interruption silence imagination domestic privacy community democracy identity theatre ontology thought experiment
    		artist statement comment drawing absence language drawing writing constraints isolation
    		gender body agency drawing post-human
    		comment critique dialogue observations absence agency attention beginning black hole chorus collaboration collecting constraints community cooperation directing disability dramaturgy drawing echo embodiment dust energy fragment femininity imagination individuality isolation icon language non-human oracle place poetry possibility presence production representation silence space stillness time unconscious voice vulnerability witnessing arts non-human feminism aesthetics

    Shelter

    Emergency Joshua Williams     		drama audience time space witnessing non-human animal violence voyeurism catastrophe landscape stillness ocean survival everyday absence duration ecology place water climate change domestic spectatorship weather end death Drama Spectacle Anthropocene Environmental environmental antropocene
    		prose Animal Climate change Code Conceptual Ecology Future Memory Ocean Non-Human Surveillance Survival Environmental Anthropocene Song Speculative anthropocene environmental

    Pandemic Disco

    Emergency MaoHui Deng     		dance queer race disco race
    		possibility representation yellowface whitewashing whiteness race queer theory

    Parking Lot Theatre

    Emergency Nick Tobier     		dance procession spectacle circus street theatre animal street culture horses
    		street theatre audience choreography automobile space parking lot

    I need to summon the spirit ...

    Emergency Hannah Fazio     		drama seance age Baroness Elsa occultism dating
    		poetry sex desire poetry

    The heightened impossibilization of performance

    Emergency Matthew Goulish     		stage directions artist statement dramaturgy speculative manifesto poetry absence animal catastrophe directing disruption future imagination impossibility interruption non-human Gilles Deleuze thought experiment
    		mediation impossibility interruption Artaud disruption failure global language possibility speech survival capitalism

    S o n d e r / S t a s i s

    Emergency Laine Zisman Newman     		circus autobiography monologue poetry virtuality community virtual space embodiment transportation bus communication
    		circus virtual space community care culture queer temporality queer theory José Muñoz

    A Moby Dick Search and Rescue: The Whale

    Emergency Nazli Akhtari     		poetry magical realism sound animal climate change decolonialization ecology immersive mediation non-human ocean place poetry sound anthropocene environmental non-human capitalism dystopia ecology

    Reassembly

    Emergency Andy Smith     		participatory community theatre audience collectivity community beginning crowd public potentiality spectatorship community theatre
    		audience collaboration community possibility potentiality ethics reception

    Octubre / October

    Chile Mauricio Barría     		visual poetry landscape memory linguistic object visual poetry police violence wound

    Costura / Weaving

    Chile Catalina Devia Garrido     		fragment image textile identity feminism biography fragment map cartography Chile

    FRAGMENTO CERO / FRAGMENT ZERO

    Chile Rolando Jara     		dystopia sound deconstruction aesthetics

    Y si no hubiera más límite / And if there were no greater limit

    Chile Paula González Seguel     		biography multidisciplinary memory decolonialization decolonization playwriting identity violence human rights Mapuche indigenous Chile

    Renuncia / Resignation

    Chile Inés Stranger     		archetypes Drama classical contemplation

    La espectadora y el deseo / The Spectator and Desire

    Chile Milena Grass Kleiner     		audience immersive imagination spectatorship

    La Subversión desde la creación social / Subversion from Social Creation

    Chile Ramón Griffero Sánchez     		audio video revolution protest street culture activism Chile revolution

    Un teatro sin cuerpos / A theatre without bodies

    Chile Coca Duarte     		memory violence silence ghosts seance dictatorship Chile

    Un teatro presente para Chile / A Chilean theatre for now

    Chile Marcelo Leonart     		memory playwriting reality zeitgeist

    The Room

    Open Caridad Svich     		poetry manifesto prose artist statement lyric essay time space language beginning imagination subjectivity possibility impossibility private darkness hope memory place light local aesthetics theatre
    		prose absence death loss time collectivity world departure rehearsal private Heraclitus

    Dramatis Personae

    Open Elizabeth Mikesch     		stage directions reference fragment list report language identity representation sexual violence trauma feeling everyday sex disruption character individuality domestic possibility patriarchy code dramatis personae masculinity private semiotics
    		dramaturgy biography naturalism naturalism Balzac psychoanalysis dramatic theory dramatis personae character individuality selfhood names hamburglar Bertolt Brecht masculinity language animal theatricality sex sexual violence psychology art feminist private psychoanalysis

    Choice & Consequence

    Open Eric Marlin     		drama stage directions critique postdramatic mystery choose your own adventure comedy satire experiment instructions fragment repetition analysis failure audience agency dramaturgy circle conceptual entertainment play playwriting repetition possibility impossibility immateriality characters thought experiment
    		experiment postdramatic choose your own adventure instructions participatory repetition artist statement game code analysis Spanish Spanglish audience authorship trauma communication immersive writing game simulation duration entertainment power play repetition attention possibility impossibility cooperation workshop choice translation romantic comedy identity game theory

    Stage Directions for Trans Girls in Love

    Open Annie Sansonetti     		stage directions fantasy transgender archive effeminacy girlhood jazz kissing repertoire transfeminism girl talk queer love anarchy poetry Artaud alice in wonderland gender utopia revolution Fred Moten Saidiya Hartman Hortense Spillers Diana Taylor
    		analysis attention love transgender transfeminism girlhood girl talk collectivity depression youth art activism aesthetics feminism post-colonial Theodor Adorno queer theory

    Future Perfect

    Open Jack Isaac Pryor     		story lyric essay speculative postdramatic prayer stage directions non-fiction prose repetition memoir time language identity ritual storytelling memory past present voice suspense trauma catastrophe pain communication feeling affect writing survival preparation public absence sex duration place speech subjectivity impossibility private vulnerability end middle love loss queer travel transgender beginning circle everyday possibility future repetition event private future local gender local identity theatre private phenomenology Gilles Deleuze semiotics queer theory
    		flowers plants queer love non-binary speed narrative end friendship trauma future place affect private gender identity private visibility affect queer theory Aristotle
    		dialogue stage directions fragment song audience time memory present affect documentation conceptual silence imagination embodiment queer phenomenology reception queer theory

    From Here to There

    Open Holly Gabelmann     		drama stage directions participatory dystopian horror mainstream theatre time agency representation violence future duration Artaud spectatorship death dystopian birth audience everyday beginning end middle age american future dystopia aesthetics ethics
    		analysis community acting absence actor horror nightmare symbolism music torture puppt Beckett death birth youth adulthood script american popular theatre private

    Correspondence

    Open Dakota Parobek     		drama radio code weather report dialogues dialogue report non-human survival place weather mediation climate change catastrophe friendship broadcast code noise signal non-human anthropocene environmental ecology actor network theory Bruno Latour eco-criticism
    		stage directions non-fiction analysis dystopian audience non-human catastrophe future internet interruption ecology place climate change attention media surveillance weather broadcast mediation computers code language signal noise american anthropocene environmental dystopia ecology

    A Reproduction (all the ghosts were children)

    Open Danny Turek     		repetition humor reference television tragicomedy list analysis representation animal absence loss repetition forgetting memory cartoons supernatural reproduction ghosts eternity tv television Hanna-Barbera dramatis personae popular performance studies
    		analysis language animal representation mediation embodiment selfhood repetition reproduction cartoons loss absence memory private

    Implicit Monuments

    Open Nevena Mrdjenovic     		experiment fragment memoir absence catastrophe disruption documentation domestic embodiment identity loss memory private trauma violence vulnerability witnessing war conflict SFR Yugoslavia Serbian
    		quotation survival affect temporality emptiness memory twentieth century
    		scenography past present representation place time memory privacy private trauma war absence loss narrative SFR Yugoslavia twentieth century european gender affect

    Redactions #9: A Fragile Thing

    Open Abigail Levine     		story autobiography biography dialogue image dance non-fiction objects sound memoir drawing score time space humanity language generations memory past representation voice labor forgetting documentation writing politics everyday absence silence rehearsal music loss imagination repetition possibility impossibility surveillance listening censorship immateriality embodiment poetry redaction narrative choreography ghosts erasure arts european fascism aesthetics twentieth century
    		artist statement absence production process speech representation reproduction erasure abstraction language media arts aesthetics

    Oroonoko, Called You, An Essay in Three Acts

    Open Tina Post     		non-fiction lyric essay autobiography prose memoir blackness labor ocean race colonization attention boat vulnerability education migrant american labor colonial labor racism twentieth century cultural studies affect
    		drama dialogue song lyric essay lab report reenactment postdramatic fable adventure comedy docudrama ergodic historical fiction horror western poetry stage directions experiment dance prose short story objects repetition sound code fathers sons space maternity blackness dystopia otherness Grahamstown humanity hair code switching language identity dreams ritual voice dramatic theory voyeurism law trauma landscape stillness feeling affect whiteness slavery costumes forgetting writing dinner party conceptual exclusion love queer gnomes absence editing sex duration silence value Boal disruption ecology colonization power queuing black box playwriting climate change Chekhov excess subjectivity ethnicity domestic collectivity censorship prison patriarchy Cixous coding terrorism embodiment transgender anarchy alice in wonderland decolonialization crowd american chronicle arts feminist future colonial fascism labor marxism identity aesthetics racism ontology analytic philosophy metaphysics thought experiment epistemology marxism semiotics queer theory actor network theory

    A Night to Remember

    Open John Thornberry     		drama poetry story image experiment mainstream theatre fiction objects participatory repetition sound reenactment adventure historical fiction realism spectacle stage directions escape audience agency venue labor backstage trauma class catastrophe costumes immersive survival actor duration entertainment disruption children play loss water fiction design character art exit weather end ocean boat failure event environmental twentieth century dystopia class aesthetics twentieth century theatre phenomenology thought experiment reception

    [UNTITLED] Water, Perspex, Soil, etc.

    Open Kate Attwell     		image spectacle objects artist statement humor autobiography diary experiment time humanity catastrophe landscape documentation politics everyday public children collectivity poetry installation labor water art climate change economy vulnerability event environmental antropocene ecology capitalism activism aesthetics institutional critique eco-criticism
    		affect economy art installation community children irony duration time waste scale death ecology extinction art anthropocene environmental non-human labor aesthetics dystopia aesthetics eco-criticism institutional critique visual studies

    Imagining the Nonmaterial

    Open Barry Rountree, William Condee     		code experiment fragment coding XKeyscore Edward Snowden TAILS internet security collaboration terrorism american security
    		dialogue security surveillance spectatorship interdisciplinarity internet immateriality network privacy security actor network theory

    A Plastic Theatre

    Open Katie Schaag     		drama poetry spectacle stage directions experiment prose participatory sound statement speculative magical realism conceptual art dystopian horror tragedy tragicomedy score time dystopia sound representation voice animal violence trauma catastrophe landscape affect ocean simulation conceptual beginning duration rehearsal music loss climate change reality excess subjectivity end plastic death objects noise silence artifice ecology non-human future american anthropocene environmental colonial popular non-human future dystopia class capitalism aesthetics ecology ontology phenomenology Gilles Deleuze thought experiment post-colonialism materialism cultural studies Bruno Latour anthropoScenes Jane Bennett Una Chaudhuri Donna Haraway transpecies kinship vibrant matter eco-criticism
    		analysis artist statement experiment plastic toxicity extinction colonization ecology security hope technology present progress climate change non-human anthropocene environmental colonial non-human ecology post-colonial eco-criticism actor network theory

    Tides of the Wolf

    Open Edie Meidav     		poetry song magical realism fable folk tale mystery fairy tale stage directions sound score music opera otherness witnessing sound voice animal pain communication ocean love music loss imagination unconscious art impossibility fantasy lament sisters environmental art ecology
    		score opera fantasy music audio sound voice music language speech song writing

    A Complicated Version of Freedom

    Open Diego Cristian Saldaña     		dialogue experiment song postdramatic speech instructions video code score time authorship sound language identity representation voice communication documentation writing diversity everyday speech art code identity language
    		analysis code artist statement score writing language spanish code sound freedom actor difference communication community translation script music utopia community utopia

    The Sacred Something

    Open Alison D’Amato     		image manifesto community theatre dance instructions prose objects artist statement experiemnt critique speculative magical realism audience otherness agency holistic language present non-human landscape stillness immersive documentation conceptual ecology place reality attention excess subjectivity possibility impossibility consciousness spectatorship immateriality network choreography movement things somatics improvisation ephemerality kinetics composition dance embodiment space event arts non-human environment ecology aesthetics ontology phenomenology Gilles Deleuze thought experiment ethics epistemology Martin Heidegger materialism actor network theory Bruno Latour Jane Bennett
    		dance instructions objects space non-human consciousness phenomenology Martin Heidegger thing theory Maurice Merleau-Ponty actor network theory

    Animal Friendship: A Docudrama

    Book Selections Minou Arjomand

    All the Worlds

    Australia Alison Croggon     		prose meta fiction affect language public beginning imagination humanity community black box unconscious utopia community epistemology phenomenology metaphysics
    		prose dramaturgy language imagination collectivity consciousness art utopia epistemology phenomenology reception thought experiment

    a game for world leaders to play

    Australia pvi collective     		experiment manual instructions escape room future game politics survival simulation virtuality global catastrophe rehearsal utopia governmental democracy community

    Nearly Finished

    Australia David Pledger     		participatory speculative postdramatic stage directions audience Beckett beginning festival immersive preparation sound failure queuing epistemology metaphysics phenomenology
    		stage directions artist statement diary fragment sound sound design feeling space failure speech voice stillness rehearsal phenomenology

    Now You See Me

    Australia Sam Routledge     		manifesto postdramatic objects backstage escape humanity non-human face actor affect Artaud graphic novel anthropocene theatrical ecology labor visibility materialism
    		stage directions instructions list exit backstage failure

    Scenes of Appalling Human Degradation

    Australia Nicola Gunn     		participatory spectacle actor voyeurism preparation exclusion visibility gender ethics
    		acting actor agency art audience circle privacy censorship law prison humiliation witnessing patriarchy Cixous feminism gender law visibility feminism

    Edits to be Performed

    Australia Emma Valente     		drama stage directions postdramatic dialogue instructions poetry fragment repetition absence authorship audience animal communication exclusion editing sex duration representation interruption silence boredom theatre gender thought experiment
    		drama dialogue fragment stage directions
    		drama fragment stage directions audience silence
    		drama fragment disruption speech repetition language sound
    		drama fragment boredom duration time attention
    		drama erotica fragment actor power sex art value excess class

    Invoice

    Australia Malcolm Whittaker     		instructions invoice labor conceptual documentation exchange value capitalism labor capitalism
    		instructions invoice value labor conceptual capitalism

    One-scene-one-person-one-song-musical

    Australia Scott Rankin     		experiment autobiography manifesto poetry monologue song catastrophe disruption ecology music economy australian labor environmental theatre class community capitalism labor ecology resistance
    		artist statement statement festival manifesto language labor disruption playwriting festivals community storytelling theatre local local community resistance

    Uncle Vanya in Krivina: playing near two rivers

    Australia Bagryana Popov     		artist statement autobiography drama game memory animal children play Shklovsky Kantor place loss water fiction russian private environmental community ecology game theory Russian formalism
    		prose dramaturgy absence Chekhov reality character imagination children time ecology climate change everyday domestic theatre private russian australian ecology

    Seance

    Australia Phillip Adams     		fiction historical fiction supernatural gnomes tourism colonization myth occultism fictional australian
    		photography colonization gnomes occultism colonial australian aboriginal post-colonial

    Blind Bats in the Belfry

    Australia Mayu Kanamori     		experiment critique drama identity casting diversity race gender
    		dramaturgy race identity representation individuality subjectivity audience diversity ethnicity australian race identity community post-colonialism reception

    The impossible possibilities of decolonization

    Australia Marrugeku     		manifesto statement artist statement dance workshop colonization decolonization dance independence power preparation colonial post-colonial australian french post-colonial race resistance post-colonialism
    		poetry prose future aboriginal past generations imagination race blackness climate change decolonization identity diversity aboriginal australian indigenous post-colonial ecology post-colonial race ethics post-colonialism

    Theatre of the Everyday

    Australia Raimondo Cortese     		participatory street theatre representation everyday book language audience place writing community utopia ethics epistemology
    		public everyday terror media collectivity surveillance private privacy witnessing power humanity chorus event local community capitalism visibility cultural studies

    This is Me

    Australia Sonia Teuben     		monologue manifesto non-fiction love everyday storytelling actor diversity labor private community visibility ethics queer theory
    		dialogue fragment autobiography diary artist statement listening collaboration everyday affect memory private local identity ethics

    A Hooligan Reflection

    Australia Joe Lui     		fragment critique humor postdramatic satire instructions manifesto participatory poetry affect music social media entertainment boredom Boal fascism resistance revolution capitalism ethics reception
    		artist statement statement poetry prose music audience silence imagination dramaturgy Boal affect collectivity possibility impossibility capitalism fascism resistance Gilles Deleuze

    Realism

    Book Selections Kyle Gillette     		drama realism mainstream theatre props food class catastrophe theatrical revolution labor class

    The Means of Production

    Book Selections Jen Harvie     		manifesto labor production economy labor marxism utopia marxism

    Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars

    Book Selections Emily Johnson     		manifesto story experiment dance audience community memory present ritual space non-human animal private indigenous community labor ecology

    Prompts for Future Africa

    South Africa Mwenya B. Kabwe     		stage directions science fiction drama time space maternity blackness brownness migration utopia dystopia south african feminism afrofuturism

    Court Theatre

    Book Selections Petra Kuppers     		poetry law sexual violence disability trauma feminism gender law feminism

    Rock Performance

    Book Selections Nick Salvato     		experiment satire dialogue audience generations non-human past time witnessing landscape stillness theatrical non-human ecology phenomenology reception religious marxism ontology

    Private Language Argument II

    Book Selections Andrew Sofer     		poetry instructions pain communication audience feeling affect analytic philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein ethics thought experiment semiotics
    		poetry audience ontology thought experiment Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Gun

    Book Selections Jonathan Ball     		drama realism satire poetry suspense dramatic theory guns violence voyeurism audience props theatrical phenomenology

    i can't breathe...

    Book Selections Thomas F. DeFrantz     		dance fable dystopian spectacle blackness agency dystopia otherness humanity props space whiteness racism race Martin Heidegger ethics phenomenology

    Ocean Oration

    Book Selections Una Chaudhuri     		fiction speculative magical realism fable non-fiction prose short story objects communication language non-human ocean ecology

    A Bad Spell

    South Africa Anton Krueger     		non-fiction diary generations protest road trip teaching past present future south african community revolution
    		radio past present representation voice memory epistemology

    In Character

    Book Selections Harvey Young     		drama adventure realism participatory authorship blackness backstage identity slavery past costumes immersive american racism race ethics

    The Circle

    South Africa Judyie Al-Bilali     		manifesto experiment humanity hair circle code switching holistic time language identity community

    Rock to the Core

    South Africa Mamela Nyamza

    Kraal of Dreams

    South Africa Mandla Mbothwe     		manifesto dreams interdisciplinarity generations ritual storytelling community utopia
    		community theatre mainstream theatre community space memory private theatrical community

    Daedalus

    South Africa Malcolm Purkey

    Eulogy

    South Africa Neil Coppen

    On Utopian Time

    South Africa Gibson Alessandro Cima     		image non-fiction children fathers future past memory generations identity friendship acting repetition arts private south african theatre utopia democracy

    11 Days of Ama-zing!: Three Vistas of Grahamstown

    South Africa Bryan Schmidt     		image spectacle festival festival Grahamstown venue witnessing sound vibe dramaturgy street culture arts south african community utopia

    The OTHER Theatre

    South Africa Mike Van Graan     		manifesto dialogue experiment otherness community agency community race

    The Art of Forgetting

    Book Selections Daniel Sack     		poetry autobiography fable acting audience memory past forgetting phenomenology reception

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