{"id":3915,"date":"2024-02-22T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:00:27","slug":"bmo-labs-2024-winter-lecture-series-staging-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"BMO Lab’s 2024 Winter Lecture Series: Staging Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Theatre is made of more then sets, words, and actors. It is made possible thanks to countless forces, energies, efforts, and things \u2013 from janitorial services to urban transit, air conditioning to box office tabulation. Increasingly theatre scholars as well as artists are following the broader \u201cinfrastructural turn\u201d in cultural and media studies to notice the unnoticed \u2018backstage\u2019 of our art, and our wider world. This March, the Lab will host three events pulling back the curtain on the politics and histories of the everyday work that makes theatre tick, with talks on race and hair styling, gender and child care, and historiography and electric light. We are honored to host Christin Essin and Ulf Otto, two of the leading global scholars of backstage theatre technology, as well as Norah Sadava & Amy Nostbakken, who will reflect on their devised work Universal Child Care<\/em> (currently at CanStage) after its run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ulf Otto<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Wednesday, March 27th, 4:00\u20136:00pm\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Please RSVP<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beware of Robots: Performance, Questions of Technology, and a Strong Program for Theatre Studies with Professor Ulf Otto – Mar. 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>