Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jenny Salisbury Kelsey Jacobson, "Theatre People: Constructions of Audiences as Consumers, Co-Creators, and Curators in Memory and Archive" Recollections from audience members suggest that audiencing, and the personal archiving of theatrical experiences, can be a deeply impactful process of identity-creation, one that is rooted in [...]

Location: Design Room Moderator: Sara Schroeter Islay Burgess, "(Trans)substantiation and Monstrosity: Consecrating Theatrical Liminality as Additional Liveness" A longstanding investigatory fixation and debate of theatrical scholarship is that of the precise nature of “liveness” in its relation to theatre. This paper argues that if theatrical text is framed as living [...]

Location: Movement Room Moderator: Julia Henderson Chantal Bilodeau, "Daring to Be Solarpunks" British philosopher Mark Fisher wrote, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” In the theatre, this translates into a failure to envision a thriving post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-climate future; instead, offerings on [...]