TY - JOUR

T1 - Premiering a Mediaopera. On-Site. Online.

AU - von Xylander, Cheryce

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © von Xylander, C.

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - Mediaopera is a relatively new genre, which invites questions as to its distinguishing features and contemporary relevance. How does mediaopera differ from related forms such as traditional opera, opera in video recording, film, and media art? On the occasion of the world premiere of Pink Mouse on March 21st, 2024, which took place at the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, an international panel of philosophers, cultural theorists and artists approached Pink Mouse – musical-graphical translation (2021) by Tatar-Russian composer Iraida Yusupova of Victor Erofeev’s prose poem (2017) of that name – as both singular live event and epistemic object, worthy of scholarly attention. The discussion revolved around the core contradiction of the ritualized gathering that had been convened: What could be learned from premiering a mediaopera, made to be accessible online, in a real-world setting, and with in-person attendance? The papers collected in this volume offer varying answers to this question. While reflecting on the performative contradiction in terms more or less oblique, they prove the exercise to have been intellectually stimulating. Pink Mouse has had subsequent public screenings at festivals in Florence, Hemnitz and Vienna. Could it be that mediaoperas are finally best consumed offline and in company?.

AB - Mediaopera is a relatively new genre, which invites questions as to its distinguishing features and contemporary relevance. How does mediaopera differ from related forms such as traditional opera, opera in video recording, film, and media art? On the occasion of the world premiere of Pink Mouse on March 21st, 2024, which took place at the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, an international panel of philosophers, cultural theorists and artists approached Pink Mouse – musical-graphical translation (2021) by Tatar-Russian composer Iraida Yusupova of Victor Erofeev’s prose poem (2017) of that name – as both singular live event and epistemic object, worthy of scholarly attention. The discussion revolved around the core contradiction of the ritualized gathering that had been convened: What could be learned from premiering a mediaopera, made to be accessible online, in a real-world setting, and with in-person attendance? The papers collected in this volume offer varying answers to this question. While reflecting on the performative contradiction in terms more or less oblique, they prove the exercise to have been intellectually stimulating. Pink Mouse has had subsequent public screenings at festivals in Florence, Hemnitz and Vienna. Could it be that mediaoperas are finally best consumed offline and in company?.

KW - Iraida Yusupova

KW - Mediaopera

KW - Pink Mouse

KW - Visual and musical systems of signs

KW - Science of art

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105002072196&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.48417/technolang.2025.01.01

DO - 10.48417/technolang.2025.01.01

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:105002072196

VL - 6

SP - 1

EP - 9

JO - Technology and Language

JF - Technology and Language

SN - 2712-9934

IS - 1

ER -