Emancypacja w sieci. Widzowie teatralni i „sprawczość” sieci
Emancipation in the Net: Theater Audiences and the “Agency” of the Web

Summary/Abstract: In a lecture given during the 49th Counterpoint Review of Small Theatrical Forms in Szczecin, Meike Wagner focuses on the emancipation of the theater viewer and the “agency of the Web.” The author's point of departure are some of Jacques Rancière's theses concerning the viewer as a “storyteller” and a “translator,” as well as a theory of the Internet by Bruno Latour. Using these concepts, Wagner performs an insightful analysis of the audience protests at Covent Garden in 1809 (the Old Price Riots) and the Situation Rooms project (2013) by the Rimini Protokoll group. The author considers the course and efficiency of the emancipation process in institutionalized theaters open to this sort of initiative, or the contrary, those which block the viewers' striving toward freedom.

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