元宇宙表演性考察:后人类表演及剧场化生存

A Discussion of Metaverse Performativity: Posthuman Performance and Theatricalized Being

后人类即人与生物技术、数字技术、AI技术等结合、连接而产生的多态化的“人”。元宇宙的主要实践者即各种后人类。虚拟数字人表演、AR表演、VR表演、虚拟化身表演等后人类表演,扩展了表演的内涵与外延,使传统的自然人肉身表演模式遭遇挑战与危机。随着扩展现实技术、数字技术等的渗透,戏剧或将进入“后戏剧”阶段。后人类表演与元宇宙实践可能会对戏剧影视等视听艺术产生巨大影响,重构行业业态、表演范式,使其迈向数字时代的共同体美学—数字影像美学。而后人类表演的一些负面影响也值得警惕。元宇宙的数字化生存也是一种剧场化生存,人类借助化身、分身、影像栖息其中。虚实混合共融的生活,将人类带入数字化生存、剧场化生存的后人类世。

The posthuman can be seen as polymorphic “humans” that are generated by the combination or connection of human and biotechnology, digital technology, AI technology,etc. They constitute the main practitioners of metaverse. Posthuman performances, such as virtual digital human performance, AR performance, VR performance, and virtual avatar performance, extend the connotation and extension of performance, whereas the traditional physical performance of natural human meets with challenge and crisis. The penetration of AR technologies and digital technologies comes with a possible beginning of a post-theatre stage.Posthuman performance and metaverse practice may greatly affect audio-visual arts such as theater, film and television, reconstruct industry dynamics and performing paradigms, and promote audio-visual arts to digital image aesthetics, ones for the digital-age communities. Meanwhile,some negative effects of human performance are also noted. The digital being in metaverse is also a kind of theatricalized being, in which human dwells by means of avatars, multiple roles or images. Life integrated with virtual-reality brings human into the posthuman world of digital being and theatricalized being.