Theatre 4.0: Within the Anthropotechnic Environment of Taiwan’s Performing Arts
Anna Gryszkiewicz
anna.gryszkiewicz@ug.edu.plUniversity of Gdansk (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2877-9303
Abstract
Established in 2009 by the hardware manufacturer Quanta Computer, Quanta Arts Foundation has had an unprecedented impact on Taiwan’s cultural policy. The beneficiaries of QAF’s substantive and financial support include Chou Shu-yi, Hsieh Chieh-Hua, Su Wen-chi, Luo Wen-jinn, and Huang Yi, whose work is discussed in the article. The artists collaborate with the science sector on an ongoing basis; they have become the pivot of interdisciplinary “labs” temporal anthropotechnic platforms bringing together specialists, engineers, and artists from various disciplines. The article offers a critical look at these performative entanglements, considering the opportunities and threats involved in attempts to break the hegemony of the human subject, which were initiated by the Romantic “dance” with new technologies. It also reveals the potential of theatre as a laboratory “that can move the earth” (to quote Archimedes, as paraphrased Latour), where the acquired knowledge about mechanisms linking science, technology, and society can evolve into agency scaled to different environments.
Keywords:
Quanta, dance, anthropotechnics, Taiwan, Wen-chi, performance, performaticsReferences
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Anna Gryszkiewiczanna.gryszkiewicz@ug.edu.pl
University of Gdansk Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2877-9303
Anna Gryszkiewicz - Doctor of Arts, Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Cultures and Languages, University of Gdańsk, theatrologist and sinologist. Scholarship holder of the Jasmine Jiangsu Government Scholarship (Jiangsu University, China), Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies (Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei), member of the Dealing With a Resurgent China project for the European Commission (DWARC, China Horizons 2021-).
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