Ivo van Hove is one of the most celebrated theatre artists working today—a fact made all the more surprising by his distinctive avant garde aesthetic. In 2019, Jason Zinoman of the New York Times struggled to name “another artist who has transitioned from experimental theater to the red-hot center of Broadway with as much success.” On stages across Europe and North America, the Belgian director has boldly reimagined canonical works of the stage and screen for a new century, often reflexively integrating video feeds and recordings into his productions. In the process, his work challenges the binaries between liveness and mediation, theatre and film, the commercial mainstream and the avant garde. It also provides a rich opportunity for scholars of theatre, performance, literature, film, and media to come together to analyze and interpret his oeuvre.
This special issue of Literature/Film Quarterly builds on the growing body of research on van Hove to discuss him as an adapter—not only in his staging of classic texts, but in his intermedial efforts to blend live performance and new media technologies. We welcome essays grounded in adaptation studies that consider textuality, remediation, technology, stagecraft, ideology, and/or aesthetics to examine not only van Hove’s artistry, but the enduring tensions between live and mediated performance.
Proposals of 250-500 words should be sent to Pete Kunze at pkunze@tulane.edu by March 1, 2021. If accepted, authors will submit an essay of 5,000-7,000 words by August 1, 2021. Inclusion in the special issue ultimately depends upon the results of peer review.
The special issue is tentatively scheduled for a publication in early 2022.
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