Keynote Speech—Senses of Liveness for Digital Times—Sally Jane Norman—IETM Amsterdam Plenary Meeting
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-04-18

IETM’s Plenary Meeting in Amsterdam: Live Art in Digital Times presents the opening keynote speech Senses of Liveness for Digital Times by Sally Jane Norman livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 14 April at 16:00-17:00 CEST (Amsterdam) / 3pm-4pm BST (London) / 14:00-15:00 GMT / 10am-11am EDT (New York) / 7am-8am PDT (Los Angeles) / 17:00-18:00 EEST (Bucharest) / 19:30-20:30 IST (New Delhi) / 22:00-23:00 SGT (Singapore) / 23:00-00:00 JST (Tokyo) / 00:00-01:00 Friday 15 April AEST (Sydney). 

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Senses of Liveness for Digital Times
Performing arts allow us to creatively challenge digitally remediated experience, and to collectively reflect on and explore its prolific scales, materials, and modes of existence. Through celebrations of diversity and idiosyncrasy, live performance helps us counter the normative, deadly pressures of digitization. This keynote will look at how theatre—Artaud's crucible—is a uniquely powerful means for mobilizing the poetic energies that characterize what is human, and what it is to be human. This in turn is seen as a source of vital resilience, tuning our senses of liveness to digital—and post-digital—times.