Performance Arts: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution

This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over the world, the book serves as an arena for international scholars to introduce innovative research methodologies and disseminate their research findings regarding VLT, data archiving, and digital history and discusses the impacts of digital culture in art production, stage performance, film, and literature. The Ibsen focus in the book is illustrative of the power of digital database research that is generating new relations in spatial-historical dimensions that have otherwise gone unnoticed. It demonstrates how a new methodology can bring practical benefits to handling big data with the support of digital technologies. In line with the post-pandemic landscape, this book engages a reflection on how the digital revolution has brought about changes and challenges, and constraints and breakthroughs within the field of theatre and performance arts. It is of appeal to theatre artists and practitioners, scholars, critics, librarians, digital archive engineers, and postgraduate students interested in theatre, performance studies, digital media, information technology, library science, communication, education, sociology, as well as political science.

The book investigates the latest methodological development in digital cultures and performance arts, which significantly contributes to the ever-changing and increasingly advanced technological culture in this field. - Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University, Canada

"In line with the post-pandemic landscape, this book engages the reader in reflecting on how the digital revolution has brought about chances and challenges, constraints and breakthroughs to the field of theatre and performance arts. An original, eye-opening and inspiring volume at multiple levels, this book brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world."

• Dr Anna Tso, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Offers fresh insights into the digital revolution in performance arts Critically examines the power of digital databases for theatre research Reexamines the relations between digital technologies and stage performance

Auteur
Kwok-kan TAM is Chair Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He is former Head and current member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. His recent publications include the books Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film (2019); Chinese Ibsenism: Reinventions of Women, Class and Nation (2019); and The Englishized Subject: Postcolonial Writings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (2019). He edits the Springer book series Digital Culture and Humanities.

Contenu
Introduction. Performance Arts: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution.- Part One. Virtual Reconstruction of Lost Theatres. - Chapter 1. Virtual Praxis and Theatre Research: Textual Recovery.- Chapter 2. Virtual Praxis: Conducting Performance Research in Virtual Theatres.- Chapter 3. Stardust Orientalism, Virtual Praxis and Digital Construction: Madame Butterfly on Ice at the Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, 1959.- Part Two. Spatial-History Digital Database for Humanistic Research. - Chapter 4. Coded, Transcoded, Encoded, Mapped: Reading Film Adaptations of Ibsen's Plays in the Digital Age.- Chapter 5. Digital Ibsen: Tracing Houses and Homes in an Ibsen Play.- Chapter 6. A Performance History of Ibsen in America: Outlines, Conjunctures and Regional Diffusion.- Part Three. Digital Culture in Performance Production. - Chapter 7. Digitization and New Modes of Ibsen Studies.- Chapter 8. Artifact as Digihistory: Re-viewing Islamist Militancy.- Chapter 9. Digital Operatic Precedents in Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore.- P art Four. Arts Tech and Experimentations in Stage Performance? .- Chapter 10. The Carp Fairy in the Digitalised Traditional Chinese Theatre.- Chapter 11. Rethinking the Use of Multimedia Technology in the Theatre.- Chapter 12. Staying Alive: The Plague and Performance in a Digital Age.