ABSTRACT
What is liveness within the performance of contemporary life; or equally within the life of contemporary performance? This inquiry has become increasingly complex within our collaborative practice, which is both interdisciplinary and deeply immersed in digital and algorithmic processes. As Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality, we experience liveness as a multi-threaded system of bodies and real-time processes in which human and non-human presences and temporalities are interruptive, simultaneous, and entangled. The artist cannot be present, or at least not live, due to conditions of liveness that multiply and divide attention, making one an asynchronous host to multiple flows of information.
