
While we welcome statements of preference, final decisions will be made by the working group conveners and will be indicated at the time of acceptance. Proposals, if accepted, may be directed into a range of presentational formats, including traditional panels (with 20 minute papers), short provocations that can form the basis for wider discussion or performance-based panels. Please email all abstracts (no more than 300 words in length), an additional few sentences of biographical information and precise details of the audio-visual technology you will need to make your presentation to Jem Kelly – Christina Papagiannouli – Jo Scott – The deadline for the submission of proposals is Friday 20 April 2018. If you believe your paper/presentation is most appropriate for this session, please state so, though final decisions will be made by working group conveners.

The digital/virtual body and its forms/images/parameters.App performances / social media performances.Live performance and virtual reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) / Mixed Reality (MR).Social media as a space for the performance of identity.


Proposals may respond to, but are not limited by, the following prompts: The Performance and New Technologies Working Group welcomes practice-based responses, provocations, lecture-demonstrations and papers, exploring and reflecting on the digital performer and social media. In this context, what new tools and spaces do social media offer to theatre and live performance? What opportunities and challenges do social media bring to the digital performer/performance-maker from new forms of audience/participant interaction to new performance training methodologies, to new rehearsal methods and documentation strategies? As highlighted by Bree Hadley (2017, see also Blake 2010), the use of social media in theatre has been seen as a ‘game changer’. We use the term ‘social media’ in a broader way, to refer to ‘any technology that allows two-way interaction between artists and audiences’ (Hadley 2017:8). Following on from previous working group events and conversations, the aim of the 2018 call is to explore different modes of interaction and intimacy between performers, social media and audiences/participants as well as to investigate new strategies for performer training, rehearsing and performance documentation for the age of the internet.
