Market as crisis: institutional change and crisis discourse in the German independent theatre scene

市场即危机：德国独立戏剧界的制度变迁与危机话语

• 批准号: 388306566
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Axel Haunschild
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachteil Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/388306566?language=en
• 关键词: Market; crisis; institutional; change; discourse

The project focuses on structural change in the German independent theatre scene using the example of Hannover and Berlin. The main research objective is to examine heterogeneous working processes, the development of new forms of work and the resulting change in the way how theatre makers see themselves and their artistic creation as well as how they deal with specific semantics of crisis. The German independent theatre scene forms a segment of the German public-funded performing arts labor market. Independent theatre artists are freelancer, often organized in collec-tives or groups, who receive project-based funding. In contrast to permanent funding of municipal and state theatres, independent freelance theatre artists have to apply regularly for funding and get evaluated on the basis of their prior production. Due to these fundamentally different working and finance structures, this research project evaluates which influential consequences these conditions have on the artistic practice. Currently, both the permanent funded state theatres and the independent theatre scene are confronted with strong public critique and changes in the institutional subsidy grant structure. This trend can be read as grounds and subject of crisis discourses. Against the backdrop of the public art funding in crisis, flexible production structures of the independent art scene are fed into the general debate when it comes to fiscal-driven reform thinking concerning the theatre system. In these debates, current work practices of independent theatre artists are regarded as a role model shaping work relations and forms of work of the future as do flexible work arrangements in other fields. These work practices comprise the collective process of artistic creation and productions, the distribution of risk among production members, working in a network structure and making use of a pool of experts with whom artists work together on a regular basis. Therefore, this project seeks to conduct a complementary analysis of the economic, social and artistic situation of independent theatre artists from 1989 until today using the example of groups and productions in and around Berlin and Hannover. Methods, concepts and theories from work and employment studies as well as theatre and institutional studies will be combined in this empirical analysis. The interdisciplinary approach is considered as necessary to get an integral insight into the connection between conditions of production and aesthetic expression.

该项目以汉诺威和柏林为例，重点关注德国独立剧院的结构变化。主要的研究目标是研究异质的工作过程，新的工作形式的发展和由此产生的变化，戏剧制作人如何看待自己和他们的艺术创作，以及他们如何处理特定的语义危机。德国独立剧院是德国公共资助的表演艺术劳动力市场的一部分。独立戏剧艺术家是自由职业者，通常以集体或团体的形式组织起来，接受基于项目的资助。与市政和国家剧院的长期资助不同，独立的自由职业戏剧艺术家必须定期申请资助，并根据他们以前的作品进行评估。由于这些根本不同的工作和财务结构，本研究项目评估这些条件对艺术实践的影响。目前，永久性资助的国家剧院和独立剧院都面临着强烈的公众批评和机构补贴结构的变化。这一趋势可以被解读为危机话语的根据和主题。在公共艺术资金危机的背景下，当涉及到财政驱动的戏剧系统改革思维时，独立艺术场景的灵活生产结构被纳入了一般性辩论。在这些辩论中，独立戏剧艺术家目前的工作做法被视为塑造未来工作关系和工作形式的榜样，其他领域的灵活工作安排也是如此。这些工作实践包括艺术创作和制作的集体过程、制作成员之间的风险分配、在网络结构中工作以及利用艺术家定期与之合作的专家库。因此，本项目试图以柏林和汉诺威及其周边地区的团体和作品为例，对1989年至今独立戏剧艺术家的经济、社会和艺术状况进行补充分析。本实证分析将结合工作和就业研究以及戏剧和机构研究的方法、概念和理论。跨学科的方法被认为是必要的，以获得一个完整的洞察生产条件和审美表达之间的联系。