Making Love to the Listener’s Ears, or Cybereroticism in Contemporary Russian Theater Criticism

• In Event: Staging (Un)obvious Sexualities in Contemporary Russian Culture

Abstract

Sexuality in Russian theater does not reside only on stage, and this paper shifts the focus to the performances of sexuality that happen within the constantly developing field of independent theater criticism. It zooms into the techniques of online self-presentation of the theater blogger Viktor Vilisov, focusing, in particular, on his podcast, where teletactility, homoeroticism, and sexuality are parts of a metaerotic game that Vilisov plays with his audience in the cyberspace.

Author

• Tatiana Klepikova, U of Toronto (Canada)