The Hybrid Future of Theater

Exhibition: "Viral Theaters: Pandemic Past / Hybrid Futures" at the Tieranatomisches Theater on Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's North Campus. How hybrid is the future of theater? In what ways has the pandemic changed how people work in theater and gather in it as a public space? The exhibition "Viral Theaters: Pandemic Past / Hybrid Futures" seeks to address these questions and is on display from now until June 3, 2022, at the Tieranatomisches Theater on Humboldt-Universität's North Campus. The multimedia exhibtition takes stock of how pandemic time has moved from state of exception to new normality between viral outbreak and containment and what that means for theatrical production. The works grew out of the "Viral Theaters" research project, a cooperative effort between Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Bard College Berlin. It was financed by the Volkswagen Foundation. For the three-day symposium that kicked off the exhibition (April 28-30, 2022), "Viral Theaters" worked in cooperation with the "Temporal Communities" Cluster of Excellence, the "Matters of Activity" Cluster of Excellence, "metalab@Harvard," Harvard University's Mahindra Humanities Center, and the Open Society University Network. A Living Archive of Pandemic Theater.