Cypet and the Cyberperformance in the Art-educational Context

Resistance and Criativity on Scene

Abstract

This article aims to present a study on cyberperformance in the art-educational context, an investigation that has been developed within the scope of the CyPeT Project, at the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC), in Portugal. We will carry out a reflection from the Portuguese academic and artistic point of view, having as guiding axes the creative and strategic processes and the perception of the potential of the internet for online performing arts. With the pandemic scenario of the last two years, the practice of cyberperformance on a global scale has boosted the emergence of artistic expression modes outside the traditional circuits of the so-called creative economy, offering a means of creation and dissemination that challenges artistic institutions. In all sectors, and with regard to the artistic sector and, in particular, higher education institutions, creativity has become fundamental for adapting to a new reality that has led teachers and artists to be resistant, to the point of not stagnating in the face of new challenges and experiment with online performance models capable of reinventing methodologies and forms of interaction. This scenario motivated the creation of the project, as the entry into the scene of an immense mass of the population on the digital stage imposed a re-evaluation of the concepts of performer and spectator, in addition to an analysis of their interchangeable character. It is important to understand what are the necessary conditions so that this redemocratization of participation in online shows does not just remain on the surface of a simulacrum of sharing, but can offer real conditions to enhance native cyberperformances.