Performing Data: Theatre Practice and Research (Performance and Digital Cultures)

An investigation of how artists use data in creating performance and how data is visualised in researching performance.[ST1] Artists and scholars now use data in creative ways to make and investigate theatre and performance while critiquing the power relations inherent in data collection, analysis, and visualisation.This book brings together artists who use data to create performance with researchers who visualise data about performance.Each chapter is organised around a key idea about data as performance, dramaturgy, documentation, flow, and genealogy.They use a range of case studies from around the globe, including the Builders’ Association’s I Agree to the Terms (2022),The Haka Party Incident (2022) by Katie Wolfe in Aotearoa, Rimini Protokoll’s 100% City series (since 2008), Catalogue by Rawcus in Melbourne (2013), and Algorithmen by Turbo Pascal in Germany (2014), among many others. Demonstrating how live performance embodies data for social critique and improved data literacy, th