CFP: No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice

A Arte Total vai estar presente!!!!!

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Mediatised, postdigital contemporary performances claim for new kinds of writing techniques and texts that integrate multiple languages, artistic crossings and interceptions with new technologies and scientific knowledge (Causey, 2016; Morris & Swiss, 2006; Cubitt, 1988). “Arte Total” - a Portuguese artistic structure - is focused in exploring new modes of artistic creation, involving digital technologies and alternative modes of writing for performance, through practice-as-research methodologies (Nelson, 2006). We propose to describe, illustrate and analyse critically the use of these methodologies and mediaturgies (Marranca, 2010) in a commented live/mediatised demonstration of these methodological approaches for artistic creation and research. The team of creators of diverse artistic and scientist origins, base their artistic research and aesthetics is Nietzschean and Deleuzean concepts of posthuman subjectivities, and are inspired by Lacanian psychological linguistic approach. These practice-as-research methodologies also present intentional experimental and reflexive characteristics, aiming for forms of artistic and political resistance. In this way, this artistic work and research is discussed through the Foucauldian notion of power relations, in the broader context of cultural, aesthetics and arts financing policies. We also analyse the political incentive for cross-cutting projects between the arts and technology sciences, this artistic structure involvement in Braga’s application for UNESCO Creative Cities Network, in Media Arts, and it’s artistic and political implications, regarding questions of authorship, creative dialog and authority.