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<p class="p2 elementToProof" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kim McLeod, University of Guelph, and Laura Levin, York University (Moderators)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mode of delivery: in-person at Dalhousie University during the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference, P<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">erforming
Shores/The Shores of Performance, </span>June 15-17</span></p>
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<p class="p2 elementToProof" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Structure of the session: 10 minutes presentations followed by 30-40 minute discussion</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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<p class="p2 elementToProof" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The field of theatre and performance has recently seen an upsurge in experiments with XR (extended
reality) as an artistic medium. A term used to reference virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, XR has allowed artists to shift to safe delivery formats during the COVID-19 pandemic; at the same time, it has also offered creators new tools
for worldbuilding and spectatorship.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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<p class="p2 elementToProof" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The goal of this session is to explore how XR performance challenges assumptions about what theatre
is. We are inspired by provocations posed in “A Manifesto for the Future Stage,” a text composed by the Future Stage Research Group at metaLAB, which urges the performing arts industry to grapple with “new expectations for media, culture, and presence in a
hyperconnected world,” while simultaneously accounting for the political effects of technological shifts. We will take up this challenge by featuring work addressing how XR theatre experiments align with, particularize, and critique the manifesto’s central
tenets. Roundtable participants might consider these questions:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Is physical co-presence required for theatre? Is XR leading to a new medium that is something else entirely?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></li><li class="li2" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9px; font: 12pt Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">What are the limits of utopian thinking about intersections of theatre and new technologies?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></li><li class="li2" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9px; font: 12pt Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Do we push back against the manifesto’s claim that “performance isn’t a commodity” or does it suggest a political orientation to this work to carefully
think through?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></li><li class="li3" style="margin: 0px; font: 12pt Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Is “liveness plus” a generative concept helping us to articulate new media affordances, or are we looping back to old binaries between liveness
and mediatization that push against the emergent nature of this work?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></li></ul>
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<p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted1">We invite proposals for this roundtable from artists and scholars in a range of career stages.
Participants may offer position papers, papers about their own performance experiments, or performative writing, such as countermanifestos, composed in relation to the manifesto. </span></p>
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<p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font:11px Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted1">Those interested in participating in the XR and the Future Stage roundtable should email a
250-word proposal to Laura Levin (</span><span class="s2 ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">levin@yorku.ca</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted1">)
and Kimberley McLeod (</span><span class="s2 ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">kimberley.mcleod@uoguelph.ca</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted1">)
by March 31.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
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