Data Ocean Theatre
The postdoctoral project continues Vincent Roumagnac's artistic research on re-ecologizing theatre.
Introduction
After completing a Doctorate in Theatre and Drama at Uniarts (Performing Arts Research Centre/Tutke/Theatre Academy), based on his artistic research project Reacclimating the Stage, Vincent Roumagnac conducts the postdoctoral research Data Ocean Theatre (D.O.T.), as a visiting researcher in Tutke.
Data Ocean Theatre is a four-year artistic research project that explores the intersection of myths, western theatre memory, new media, digital animism, climate emergency, sea and ocean transformations, queer subcultures, and technological mutations in relation to aspects of “submersion” as a contemporary living condition.
Expanding on the claimed unsustainability of western theatre’s anthropocentric foundations, D.O.T. examines how the notion and practice of the stage transform amidst climate urgency, technological hypergrowth, and discipline-fluid hybridization. It seeks to generate experiments on a new temporal ecology of the stage, examining how theatre-making infrastructures might transition within a multi-agential dynamic of emergence.
Exploring climate, technology, and theatre
D.O.T. appears, disappears, and reappears through a series of polymorphic artworks and research affordances. These are based on the eco-dramaturgical consideration of the simultaneous phenomenon of 1. the rising sea and ocean levels, 2. the exponential growth of big data in our informational age, and 3. the emotional overload caused by the latter two happening, projection, and prophecy.
D.O.T. explores inherited sea-and-ocean-oriented myths and revisits theatre plays with a marine backdrop, looking simultaneously into contemporary nautical vocabulary and sea imagery used as metaphors for computational realities.
Key components of the project
Data Ocean Theatre proposes to re-mythologize western theatre foundations by forming an alternative pantheon for a queer, hydrofeminist, and technoanimist reset of the “tragic”, at the interplay between a syncretic marine mythology and the ambiguities of “technology-as-monster” narratives.
In D.O.T. project, the forces and fragilities of transforming marine ecosystems intersect with algorithmic-conditioned life and crossbreeding of diverse art disciplines and research fields based on collaborations. This generates imaginary prototypes for future societal constructions in the floods.
D.O.T. is structured around several key components: the prologue Simultaneous Environments, featuring a series of experimental works; the central project Tragedy and the Goddexxes, which culminates in three public exhibitions; and a series of workshops, residencies, and a final publication in the form of an exposition on the Research Catalogue which will be published in 2025 in the Acta Scenica series (Theatre Academy/Uniarts Helsinki).
Contact information for the project
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Vincent Roumagnac
- Visiting researcher, Research Theater Academy, Theatre Academy
- vincent.roumagnac@uniarts.fi
Project name
Data Ocean Theatre
Lead organisation
Academy of Fine Arts Research and Doctoral Education
Introduction
After completing a Doctorate in Theatre and Drama at Uniarts (Performing Arts Research Centre/Tutke/Theatre Academy), based on his artistic research project Reacclimating the Stage, Vincent Roumagnac conducts the postdoctoral research Data Ocean Theatre (D.O.T.), as a visiting researcher in Tutke.
Data Ocean Theatre is a four-year artistic research project that explores the intersection of myths, western theatre memory, new media, digital animism, climate emergency, sea and ocean transformations, queer subcultures, and technological mutations in relation to aspects of “submersion” as a contemporary living condition.
Expanding on the claimed unsustainability of western theatre’s anthropocentric foundations, D.O.T. examines how the notion and practice of the stage transform amidst climate urgency, technological hypergrowth, and discipline-fluid hybridization. It seeks to generate experiments on a new temporal ecology of the stage, examining how theatre-making infrastructures might transition within a multi-agential dynamic of emergence.
Exploring climate, technology, and theatre
D.O.T. appears, disappears, and reappears through a series of polymorphic artworks and research affordances. These are based on the eco-dramaturgical consideration of the simultaneous phenomenon of 1. the rising sea and ocean levels, 2. the exponential growth of big data in our informational age, and 3. the emotional overload caused by the latter two happening, projection, and prophecy.
D.O.T. explores inherited sea-and-ocean-oriented myths and revisits theatre plays with a marine backdrop, looking simultaneously into contemporary nautical vocabulary and sea imagery used as metaphors for computational realities.
Key components of the project
Data Ocean Theatre proposes to re-mythologize western theatre foundations by forming an alternative pantheon for a queer, hydrofeminist, and technoanimist reset of the “tragic”, at the interplay between a syncretic marine mythology and the ambiguities of “technology-as-monster” narratives.
In D.O.T. project, the forces and fragilities of transforming marine ecosystems intersect with algorithmic-conditioned life and crossbreeding of diverse art disciplines and research fields based on collaborations. This generates imaginary prototypes for future societal constructions in the floods.
D.O.T. is structured around several key components: the prologue Simultaneous Environments, featuring a series of experimental works; the central project Tragedy and the Goddexxes, which culminates in three public exhibitions; and a series of workshops, residencies, and a final publication in the form of an exposition on the Research Catalogue which will be published in 2025 in the Acta Scenica series (Theatre Academy/Uniarts Helsinki).
Contact information for the project
-
Vincent Roumagnac
- Visiting researcher, Research Theater Academy, Theatre Academy
- vincent.roumagnac@uniarts.fi