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Reflecting on Environmental Change through Site-based Performance

通过基于场地的表现反思环境变化

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H03921X/1
负责人：
Stephen Scott-Bottoms
金额：
$ 3.11万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH03921X%2F1
关键词：
Reflecting Environmental Change through Site

项目摘要

The aim of this network will be to examine the potential of site-based performance as a means of investigating and representing the dynamics of environmental change. We define site-based performances as events located in spaces whose physical features and/or known histories will in some way shape the meaning-making processes of performers, audiences and potentially the wider public. This is distinct from the conventional treatment of theatre stages as neutral vessels for self-sufficient performances.A performance event sited in and reflecting on a given environment can be a highly appropriate way to focus attention on environmental questions. Its impact can be immediate, in engaging diverse members of the public and prompting them to look at their surroundings afresh. However, most site-specific performance practice tends (naturally enough) to be explicitly local in orientation-reflecting on local history or community identity, for example, or the perceptual properties of a given landscape. This network aims to foreground the critical question of how such performance strategies can best be directed toward engaging spectators / participants with the global question of environmental and climatic change. How can changes on the global/macro level be perceived and comprehended within the local/micro? Equally importantly, how can the local specifics of human habitation and environmental impact be used as a means by which to comprehend impacts on the global ecosystem? By addressing the immediate and intimate, can problems such as the greenhouse effect, that might too easily seem abstract and overwhelming, be 'brought home' in a manner that is both comprehensible and relevant? What kinds of efficacy or agency might become possible by using performance as a tool to help us reconceive of the environment as the very source of our human drama, rather than simply a 'backdrop' to it? The network will seek to 'join the dots' of this debate by various means. On the one hand, we will examine existing forms of site-based practice which are already seeking to connect the micro and macro. Often such practitioners work in relative isolation, with little wider recognition of their work, so one task will be to identify and compare examples of 'best practice,' and to consider what general lessons might be extrapolated from these cases. On the other hand, the network will have an eye toward generating new, critically-informed practice. Although we do not expect to generate concrete performance outcomes during the 2010-11 timeframe of the grant, it is envisaged that lead participants will propose outline plans for projects in the preliminary stages of development. These outlines or scenarios will focus the investigations of the network around the theoretical, logistical and environmental issues that they raise. A crucial interpretive foil to these speculative explorations will be the actual locations of the network's three workshops, which have been chosen for their iconic status as locations that embody (and perform) contrasting types of environmental stress.The network will draw together theatre/performance specialists with a variety of expertise and contrasting interpretive perspectives. The participants include: practitioner-researchers specialising in experimental, site-oriented performance practice; theoretically-oriented critics engaging with questions of ecology and performance on a more conceptual/global level; applied/educational theatre specialists whose expertise lies in the engagement of specific constituent audiences with particular issues germane to their well-being. The network will also draw on expert input from other disciplinary areas, especially geography (thereby continuing the productive dialogues that developed at the AHRC's Living Landscapes conference in Aberystwyth, 2009), and from performance practitioners, activists and educationalists from beyond the university sector.

该网络的目的是审查以场址为基础的业绩作为调查和反映环境变化动态的一种手段的潜力。我们将基于场地的表演定义为位于其物理特征和/或已知历史的空间中的事件，这些空间将以某种方式塑造表演者，观众和潜在的更广泛公众的意义创造过程。这与传统的将舞台视为自给自足的表演的中立船只不同。在特定的环境中进行表演并反映特定的环境可能是关注环境问题的非常合适的方式。它的影响可以是直接的，在吸引不同的公众成员，并促使他们重新看待他们的周围环境。然而，大多数特定地点的表演实践倾向于（很自然地）明确地定位于当地，例如，反映当地历史或社区身份，或给定景观的感知特性。这个网络的目的是前景的关键问题，如何这样的性能策略可以最好地针对参与观众/参与者与全球环境和气候变化的问题。如何在地方/微观层面上感知和理解全球/宏观层面上的变化？同样重要的是，如何将人类居住和环境影响的当地具体情况作为理解对全球生态系统影响的一种手段？通过解决直接和亲密的问题，如温室效应，这可能太容易似乎抽象和压倒性的，可以'带回家'的方式，既可以理解和相关的？什么样的功效或代理可能成为可能，通过使用性能作为一种工具，以帮助我们重新认识的环境作为我们的人类戏剧的来源，而不仅仅是一个“背景”？该网络将寻求通过各种手段“加入这场辩论的各个点”。一方面，我们将研究已经在寻求连接微观和宏观的现有形式的现场实践。这些实践者往往在相对孤立的情况下工作，他们的工作很少得到更广泛的认可，因此，一项任务将是确定和比较“最佳做法”的例子，并考虑从这些案例中可以推断出哪些一般性的教训。另一方面，该网络将着眼于产生新的、具有批判性信息的实践。虽然我们预期在2010-11年度的拨款期内不会有具体的表现成果，但预计牵头参与机构会就初步发展阶段的项目提出大纲计划。这些大纲或情景将围绕它们提出的理论，后勤和环境问题集中对网络进行调查。这些探索性探索的一个关键诠释陪衬将是网络的三个工作室的实际位置，这些工作室的选择是因为它们的标志性地位，体现（并执行）对比类型的环境压力。网络将汇集具有各种专业知识和对比诠释视角的戏剧/表演专家。参加者包括：专门从事实验，现场为导向的性能实践的研究人员;理论为导向的批评家从事生态和性能的问题在一个更概念/全球层面;应用/教育戏剧专家，其专业知识在于特定的组成观众与特定问题密切相关的参与他们的福祉。该网络还将借鉴其他学科领域的专家投入，特别是地理学（从而继续2009年在阿伯里斯特威斯举行的澳大利亚人权委员会生活景观会议上开展的富有成效的对话），以及来自大学部门以外的表演从业者、活动家和教育家的投入。