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The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents Whole Earth Talk #1: Thomas Oberender livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Monday 10 April 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a Whole Earth Conversation with Thomas Oberender (Germany) concerning the new function theatre and efficiency can and may play within the new age of the Anthropocene, a geological period formed by people reasonably than by nature. We ask how can the numerous symbolic, imaginary, and actual area of theatre might help artists and audiences notice {that a} modern theatre and efficiency apply can not simply represents interhuman conflicts. How can we elevate the mandatory and pressing consciousness to incorporate a planetary consciousness about animals, vegetation, viruses, the environment, in addition to the “critical zone” 30 toes above and beneath the floor of the earth in modern theatre and efficiency?
Thomas Oberender, born in 1966 in Jena, is an creator and curator. Since 2011 he has been the Artistic and Managing Director of Berliner Festspiele / Gropiusbau. He was the founding father of a number of new codecs for perfomance, literature, and cultural applications, and created timebased exhibitions. From 2006–2011 he was Director of Drama on the Salzburg Festival. He has written essays, theater performs and literature critiques and is at present working as Artistic Director of the transmedial program «Immersion», that additionally opens planetariums as areas for artists of the digital age.
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