Awaiting Tiresias: A Livestream Performance for the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference Context:

Awaiting Tiresias is a livestream performative autoethnography that uses film and streaming technology to take audience members into the liminal space of medical exam room in which performer left blindfolded dark contemplate their fate. The piece draws upon Greek mythology, common attitudes towards blindness disability, modern conceptions gender its multi-layered analysis identity diagnosis. examines tensions between liminality diagnosis, sight insight, inter independence. performance relies film’s ability carefully construct perspective interiority as means generating empathy awareness. At same time, embraces way mixture with liveness can destabilize theatrical expectations create where new perspectives are possible. creative team behind utilize individualized experiences who witness from personal electronic devices challenge ocular-centric focus theatre. In order best experience performance, audiences encouraged use headphones, turn out lights, minimize distractions.