Abstract
In this forum piece, three scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss their experience of the Toronto run of Robert Lepage’s The Library at Night, an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience. The show’s Toronto debut was produced by Lighthouse Immersive in spring 2022. Taking their cue from Shannon Jackson’s discussion of how disciplinary training and framing impacts perceptual habits (2–4), the authors explore how their various lenses shape their understanding of the multidisciplinary and difficult-to-categorize experience. They discuss affect, audiences, artistic choices, and the show’s larger context. Examining how the show constructs an aesthetic experience for its audience, and critiquing its limited epistemological frame, they consider how The Library at Night fits within our current moment of experience economy in the arts and culture industry.
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