存在与边界:元宇宙视域下中国戏剧发展的思考与展望

Existence and Boundaries: Metaverse-Based Reflections on and Perspectives of the Development of Chinese Drama

新一轮数字革命推动了“元宇宙”概念的发展,描绘了人类未来的生态景观,是人类社会认知的全新建构。目前对元宇宙的讨论范畴多集中在游戏、虚拟数字人、社交、VR技术、影视、医疗、电商、教育、旅游等领域,戏剧领域鲜有涉及。中国戏剧作为一门有着百年历史的综合性艺术,对新兴事物有着极强的包容性,对于横空出世的元宇宙也保留着极大的热情与想象。本文试图以元宇宙概念接入戏剧创作为思考点,在确证戏剧没有被元宇宙侵占本体性的前提下,拟从元宇宙与戏剧本体的交互性、戏剧引入元宇宙的现代性维度、非接触时代戏剧虚拟社群的建构、戏剧在“现在的视域”与“陌生的视域”的潜在变革四个维度,探讨中国戏剧在元宇宙视域中所延伸出来的发展空间与思维革命。

The new round of digital revolution, which conceptually develops the metaverse, depicts the ecological landscape of human beings in the future, and constructs the cognition of human society in a new light. Current discussions of the metaverse have mostly focused on games, virtual digital people,social interaction, VR technology, film and television, medical treatment, e-commerce, education,tourism and other fields, whereas theatre topics are rarely involved. As a comprehensive art with a centennial history, Chinese theatre is inclusive of emerging things and retains great enthusiasm and imagination for the metaverse. This paper is about to take the concept of metaverse access to theatrical creation as a point of reflection, on the premise of confirming that theatre has not been encroached upon ontologically by the metaverse. Development Space and Thinking Revolution of Chinese theatre in the metaverse are explored in four dimensions: the interaction between the metaverse and the theatre noumenon, the modernity dimension of the metaverse’s introduction to theatre, the construction of virtual communities in theatre in the non-contact era and the potential transformation of theatre in the ‘present vision’ and the ‘strange vision’.