Teatr 4.0: W antropotechnicznym środowisku tajwańskich sztuk performatywnych
Theatre 4.0: Within the Anthropotechnic Environment of Taiwan’s Performing Arts

Summary/Abstract: Established in 2009 by the hardware manufacturer Quanta Computer, Quanta Arts Foundation has had an unprecedented impact on Taiwan’s cultural policy. The beneficiaries of QAF’s substantive and financial support include Chou Shu-yi, Hsieh Chieh-Hua, Su Wen-chi, Luo Wen-jinn, and Huang Yi, whose work is discussed in the article. The artists collaborate with the science sector on an ongoing basis; they have become the pivot of interdisciplinary “labs” temporal anthropotechnic platforms bringing together specialists, engineers, and artists from various disciplines. The article offers a critical look at these performative entanglements, considering the opportunities and threats involved in attempts to break the hegemony of the human subject, which were initiated by the Romantic “dance” with new technologies. It also reveals the potential of theatre as a laboratory “that can move the earth” (to quote Archimedes, as paraphrased Latour), where the acquired knowledge about mechanisms linking science, technology, and society can evolve into agency scaled to different environments.

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