Porous Dramaturgy: 'Togetherness' and Community in the Structure of the Artwork

该网络将讨论互动、沉浸式、特定地点或其他“多孔”艺术作品中形成或隐含的社区，确定它们对剧院机构及其社会角色的影响。我们创造了“多孔”戏剧这一术语来描述这项工作，作为Kully Thiarai的“多孔”戏剧机构概念的对应，它对合作开放，在使用上灵活，并催化其自身墙之外的活动。我们询问“多孔”艺术作品是否具有将这种多孔性内置到其自身结构中的民主目标，以及/或者它是否是修改和发展“团结”和社区概念的关键合作伙伴，并对生产组织产生影响。我们的项目合作伙伴是来自克罗地亚杜布罗夫尼克和北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特的从业人员。随着克罗地亚准备加入欧盟，我们有兴趣探索与这种政治背景有关的网络理念，并与该国建立新的联系。北爱尔兰也提供了一个机会，在当地和国家的政治压力下讨论工作的政治意义。两个活动将把所有网络参与者聚集在一起讨论这些问题，并将通过Shadow Casters（克罗地亚）和Wrights & Sites（英国）的工作研讨会，让网络参与者直接体验“多孔”策略。第一个活动将集中在影子投射者的作品上，在一个研讨会上检查他们三部曲的原则和过程，“在一起”，在剧院建筑内举行，使观众作为社区直接关注。第二个活动将重点关注wright & Sites在英格兰西南部的特定场地的实践，作为与地点相关的身份的参与。该网络将参观他们在超级海韦斯顿的公共艺术作品，“建造城镇所需的一切都在这里”（2010）。通过介绍这些案例研究，我们的目标是承认海伦·淡水的建议，即戏剧学术往往不通过在我们的方法中进行经验调查（尽管不是社会学调查）来检查观众本身的经验（2009年）。网络参与者将包括戏剧制作人、艺术家、剧作家和学者。每个网络将以一个开放的论坛结束，以便与来自各个领域的学者和来自艺术组织的当地利益相关者进行更广泛的辩论。PI和CI将在克罗地亚杜布罗夫尼克和北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特举行的两个进一步的公开小组活动中撰写关于这些讨论的报告，PI和CI将与项目合作伙伴Shadow Casters和Tinderbox剧院（N.I）的戏剧演员Hanna Slattne讨论网络发现。这将使网络的调查结果能够通过与具体国家和社会政治环境的挑战的关系得到考虑和改变。在整个项目过程中，一个在线博客将记录和传播其进展，并将提供一个论坛，供编辑的评论和网络成员的扩展贡献，他们将提供论文、讨论和其他贡献。相关网站将提供相关链接，以提高对相关学术和专业背景的认识。在上述四项活动之后，PI和CI将在国际学术会议（如IFTR 2013）上发表论文，并在同行评审出版物上发表两篇文章（包括跨学科出版物，如“社会与文化地理”）和一本书章节（在“戏剧与建筑”中，与Palgrave Macmillan签约）。一份在线报告将包含在博客网站上。

This network will discuss communities formed or implicit in interactive, immersive, site-specific or otherwise 'porous' artworks, identifying their implications for the theatre institution and its social role. We have coined the term 'porous' dramaturgy to describe this work, as a counterpart to Kully Thiarai's idea of a 'porous' theatre institution, which is open to collaboration, is flexible in its use and which catalyses activities beyond its own walls. We ask whether 'porous' artwork has the democratic aims of this porosity built into its own structure, and/or whether it is a critical partner in modifying and developing concepts of 'togetherness' and community, with implications for producing organisations. Our project partners are practitioners from Dubrovnik, Croatia and Belfast, Northern Ireland. As Croatia prepares to join the EU, we are interested in exploring network ideas in relation to this political context and forging new links with this country. Northern Ireland also provides an opportunity to discuss the political significance of the work within a politically pressurised local and national context.Two events will bring all network participants together to discuss these questions and will also engage the network participants in direct experience of 'porous' strategies through workshops on the work of Shadow Casters (Croatia) and Wrights & Sites (UK). The first event will focus on the work of Shadow Casters, in a workshop examining the principles and processes of their trilogy, 'On Togetherness', which takes place within a theatre building, making the audience-as-community its direct concern. The second event will focus on Wrights & Sites' site-specific practice in South West England as an engagement with identities connected to place. The network will visit their public artwork in Weston-super-Mare, 'Everything you need to build a town is here' (2010). By introducing these case studies, we aim to acknowledge Helen Freshwater's suggestion that theatre scholarship has tended not to examine the experiences of audiences themselves (2009) by making an experiential enquiry (albeit not a sociological one) part of our approach. Network participants will include theatre producers, artists, dramaturgs and academics. Each network will end with an open forum to enable wider debate with academics from a range of fields and with local stakeholders from arts organisations.The PI and CI will produce papers reporting on these discussions to two further public panel events which will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the PI and CI will discuss network findings with project partners, Shadow Casters and Hanna Slattne, dramaturg for Tinderbox Theatre (N.I). This will enable the network findings to be considered and inflected through relationship to the challenges of specific national and socio-political contexts.Throughout the project, an online blog will document and disseminate its progress and will also provide a forum for edited commentary and extended contributions from network members, who will contribute papers, discussions and other contributions. Links will be placed on relevant websites to raise awareness in relevant academic and professional contexts. Subsequent to the four events described above, the PI and CI will deliver papers at international academic conferences (e.g. IFTR 2013) and publish two articles in peer reviewed publications (including a cross-disciplinary publication such as 'Social and Cultural Geography') and a book chapter (in 'Dramaturgy and Architecture', contracted to Palgrave Macmillan). An online report will be included on the blog site.