Pota: Practicing Odin Teatret’s archive (2021 - 2025)
POTA is an interdisciplinary research project funded by FWO. The aim is to investigate what it means to develop, practice and perform an archive through the activation of Odin Teatret’s (DK) embodied legacy in a virtual environment.
The POTA project in brief
Practicing Odin Teatret’s Archive (POTA) is an interdisciplinary research project (2021-2025, 450K, 2 PhD students) funded by the Flanders Research Council (FWO). The aim is to investigate what it means to develop, practice and perform an archive through the activation of Odin Teatret’s (DK) embodied legacy in a virtual environment, addressing the translation of technique through Mixed Reality whilst developing dramaturgical approaches to archival practices.
Resume
- to activate Odin’s embodied legacy in a digital and virtual environment, articulating new possibilities for the (pedagogical) transmission of Odin Teatret’s training techniques.
- to create new navigation systems that allow for an interactive and creative transmission of embodied theatre practices.
- to re-fashion Odin Teatret’s genealogies of theatre techniques into immersive and augmented technologies like motion capture (MoCap) systems and virtual reality (VR) devices.
- to consider embedded embodied knowledge as a tool for investigating the complex web of techniques that link performers to particular subjectivities, histories, aesthetics, and to each other.