The Performer and Their Digital Double: A Chameleons Group Manifesto!
The chapter celebrates the histories of radical artistic manifestos and offers a version for the author’s own theatre company, The Chameleons Group (since 1994). The company takes Antonin Artaud’s ideas into multimedia realms, and expands his metaphor of The Theatre and its Double (1938) into new live and virtual performance incarnations. Working across different genres and platforms, from live stage works to CD-ROMs, interactive theatre projects and telematic performances, for over thirty years the Chameleons Group have been exploring Artaud’s notions of the double, cruelty, physical hieroglyphs and the fragmented body. Employing the manifesto form’s obligatory exclamation marks and ‘calls to arms’, it demands that you confront yourself! change your skin! be delirious! don’t care what people think! deliver darkness with light! and reanimate Artaud’s ideas for the digital age!
Citation:
Dixon, Steve. ''The Performer and Their Digital Double: A Chameleons Group Manifesto!.'' Scènes numériques. Anthologie critique: Digital stages. Critical anthology, edited by Izabella Pluta, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022, pp. 291-298, ISBN / ISSN: ISBN-13 : 978-2753583184.
