Viral Theatres – Performing Pandemic Culture in the Anthropocene

Viral Theatres asks: How is theatrical performance as embodied practice and communal encounter radically changed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The goal of this interdisciplinary practice-based research project is to create a living archive of the transformation that cultural production is currently undergoing, using theatre and performance as sites of negotiation for an increasingly globalised public sphere. The impact of the project cuts across disciplines by documenting how we narrate and perform this present state of exception and how the emerging post-pandemic cultures intervene into our existing understanding of connectivity in the Anthropocene.