PROTAGONIST by Digital Idiots is an Internet Theatre mini-series, streamed live from Helsinki, Finland and surroundings.
PROTAGONIST is an ongoing project which aims to develop new storytelling methods. We are examining the forms of live stream art and trying to reflect the world surrounding us by doing so. We explore different ways of colliding fiction with reality. How can we use the city or the world as our stage, or is it using us?
You as audience will be able to hear and see what the Protagonist hears and sees via a camera installed to Protagonist’s glasses and binaural microphones. The city becomes the stage and its inhabitants turns out to be the cast. Do we have the right to see what Protagonist sees? Do we have the right to make public what has been experienced by the private eye?
The starting point of this project poses the following questions: If one takes away the most fundamental features of a theatre performance, the sharing of a time and a space, what can one experience instead? What kind of interactions, strategies, techniques, compositions and ways of communication are either challenging, hard or impossible on a stage, yet achievable and inspirational in a streamed networked performance?
Two first public episodes of the series, The Critic and The Curator, were streamed live online in the context of international digital first live performing arts festival Re:locations during autumn 2021. Since then, the working group has developed both the storytelling and technical concept and equipment further in several sessions in Helsinki and Porvoo. In September 2024, the project takes a new angle with streaming a live documentary about creation process of a theatrical perfomance, which will be watched together with a live audience at Q-teatteri. Sign up to this work-in-progress session below!
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Next episode on September 29, 2024: Protagonist @ Q-teatteri!
Digital Idiots invite audience to follow the next stage of the process on Sunday 29.9.2024: this work-in-progress session will take place at Q-teatteri and the result will be a surprise also to its creators.
Protagonist @ Q-teatteri is a performance event which utilises POV technology, shared imagining and follows the creative process of a theatre performance. During the evening, audience will produce a script to a play. This play will be created during the event and that process will be followed through a POV-live-stream. Audience will see and hear the process of making of a theatrical performance from viewpoints of director, actor and av-manager.
The Protagonist project studies new forms and methods of storytelling, now-moment, virtual presence and the liminal space in between theatre and documentary film. The episode to be seen at Q-teatteri explores the moment of creation, subjectivity, imagination, collectivity and myths.
Digital Idiots: Protagonist @ Q-teatteri
Q-teatteri, Tunturikatu 16, Helsinki
Sunday 29.9.2024 at 15.00
Duration ca. 5 hours
Language: Finnish / English
Free entry. Once the event has started, audience is free to move in and out of the space.
Bar open from 14.30 onwards
There is a limited amount of tickets available. Sign up online via this form: https://forms.gle/ttc1cSYwdZmMiPmr7
Protagonist @ Q-teatteri event is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Want to know more? You may contact us via email: live.protagonist (at) gmail.com