Market as Crisis: The Internationalisation of Independent Theatre in Germany – Funding Economy, Spaces of Co-ooperation, Aesthetics

市场危机：德国独立戏剧的国际化——资金经济、合作空间、美学

• 批准号: 453737471
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Axel Haunschild
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Medien, Theater und Populäre Kultur
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/453737471?language=en
• 关键词: Market; Crisis; Internationalisation; Independent; Theatre

Independent theatre in Germany is characterised by internationalisation, reflected in, for example, cross-country co-operations, international festivals, guest performances and artist-in-residence programmes. Internationalisation has also found its way into the criteria for funding decisions. The project builds upon a first project phase in which the link between funding structures, working conditions and artistic aesthetics has been analysed and related to transformational institutional dynamics and crisis discourses. The project focusses on the internationalisation of independent theatre in Germany and investigates paths and consequences of this internationalisation. The analytical perspective is to study internationalisation – and thus the coexistence and diversity of cultural, organisational, institutional and aesthetic practices and traditions – in its local manifestations. The project combines two disciplinary perspectives, work and organisational studies with theatre studies, to research the interactions between funding conditions, forms of work and co-operation as well as artistic formats and aesthetics in the context of internationalisation. Internationalisation is conceptualised as (1) a dynamic process that empirically changes market conditions, work practices and aesthetics of independent theatre groups and (2) as a discoursively produced phenomenon that itself requires legitimisation. These multi-layered connections are examined on the basis of qualitative interviews, (participant) observations and analyses of theatrical performances. By referring to the spatial turn in organisational studies, a focus of analysis are the essential changes to traditional spaces of co-operation and theatrical performance driven by internationalisation and, very recently, by accelerated digitalisation as a consequence of the Corona-crisis. Since independent theatre’s internationalised work practices and forms of production are increasingly adopted by public repertory theatres and since co-operations between independent groups and public theatres proliferate, the project also contributes to our understanding of transformational dynamics in the performing arts in general.

德国独立剧院的特点是国际化，体现在跨国合作、国际节日、客座表演和驻场艺术家计划等方面。国际化也已成为资助决策的标准。该项目建立在第一个项目阶段的基础上，其中对资金结构、工作条件和艺术美学之间的联系进行了分析，并将其与转型制度动力和危机话语联系起来。该项目重点关注德国独立剧院的国际化，并调查这种国际化的路径和后果。分析视角是研究国际化——以及文化、组织、制度和审美实践与传统的共存和多样性——在当地的表现形式。该项目将工作和组织研究与戏剧研究这两个学科视角相结合，研究国际化背景下资助条件、工作和合作形式以及艺术形式和美学之间的相互作用。国际化被概念化为（1）一个动态过程，根据经验改变独立剧团的市场条件、工作实践和美学；（2）作为一种话语产生的现象，其本身需要合法化。这些多层次的联系是在定性访谈、（参与者）观察和戏剧表演分析的基础上进行检查的。通过提及组织研究中的空间转向，分析的重点是国际化以及最近新冠危机导致的加速数字化所驱动的传统合作和戏剧表演空间的本质变化。由于独立剧院的国际化工作实践和制作形式越来越多地被公共剧目剧院所采用，而且独立团体和公共剧院之间的合作不断增多，该项目也有助于我们对表演艺术总体转型动力的理解。