Call for participation: Survey on live performance without air travel

The survey will seek to answer the following questions:

• What are the options for creating, producing and touring live performance in a world where we need to drastically reduce our energy use?
• In what ways, old or new, can live performance thrive and evolve within new constraints without compromising ‘liveness’ or international exchange?
• What examples of live performance formats can we reference or imagine that are feasible without air travel, while also expanding the horizon of what we think of as cultural exchange?

“The contributions will form a database, an unruly mass of ideas and a collectively-scrawled map of possibilities,” Theatre Vidy-Lausanne said. “From this, new connections and introductions will emerge, and the organisers will select a working group who will together untangle the lines, sort through the possibilities and imagine further. The results will be an online and ever-growing publication catalogue/compendium of possible live performance touring formats without air travel”.

Contributions may be sought from:

• Existing examples of artistic practices or protocols, specific artworks/performances/formats that do not require air travel to tour or suggest possibilities in that direction.
• Imagined versions of the above.
• Any fears or concerns around this discourse that people want to be addressed.

Interested participants can access the survey forms here.

Deadline for submission is 21 February.

View the original call here.