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Sequins, Self & Struggle: Performing and Archiving Sex, Place and Class in Pageant Competitions in Cape Town

亮片，自我

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K008102/1
负责人：
Bryce Lease
金额：
$ 24.08万
依托单位：
Royal Holloway University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK008102%2F1
关键词：
Sequins Self Struggle Performing Archiving

项目摘要

This project is a collaboration among the Departments of Drama at the University of Exeter and Queen Mary, University of London (UK), The Centre for Curating the Archive and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Africana Studies at Brown University (US) and the District 6 Museum. The primary aims are to research, document and disseminate archives of the Spring Queen and Miss Gay Western Cape pageants performed by disparate coloured communities in greater Cape Town. The Spring Queen pageant is a unique event where coloured female factory workers from the clothing and textile industry in the Western Cape of South Africa compete each year to be crowned "spring queen" of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Worker's Union (SACTWU). Public resistance to apartheid often resulted in violent racial conflict and for the first time in the garment industry in the 1970s there were acts of retaliation to low wages in the form of strikes. It is within this climate of dissent and harsh backlashes that the Spring Queen pageant emerged around 1978. Local trade unions devised the pageant as a mode of alleviating rising tensions amongst workers. A highlight on the Cape-Town social calendar, up to 30000 supporters attend the final event at the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town. This project will situate the Spring Queen as a moment of significant cultural shift. As textile manufacturing increasingly moves to China, this is perhaps the last opportunity to document garment and textile workers in Cape Town. The pageant bears testimony to the lives of Cape factory workers both during and after apartheid. The contestants, who live in the marginalised and impoverished areas, primarily in Atlantis and the Cape Flats, travel into the predominantly "white" city centre for the pageant. Important to these performance events is the figure of the "moffie", a queer coloured male, often a transsexual, who has traditionally choreographed and designed the pageants, but who is forbidden from competing in them. Miss Gay Western Cape, which grew out of the Spring Queen pageant and the new South African constitution that was the first in the world to include protection for sexual minorities, is a platform for queer non-white persons to perform in a secure environment without exploitation. This project will investigate the significance of these pageants and the performances they engender. By creating an alternative to apartheid-era archives that marginalized these communities, we will engage in the wider democratic practice of reimagining South Africa, first initiated by the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. We will consider: the disruption of categories of representation engendered by performance in the pageants; the performance of emancipation and self-determination in the figure of the "queen"; constructions of gender, beauty and alternative sexuality in minority communities; and the continued segregation of space in Cape Town. The project aims to provide a unique perspective on marginalised lives, through an interdisciplinary lens; focusing on visuality, performativity and orality, it will offer a space for previously disavowed narratives to be articulated, which will not only be of benefit to these communities, but to post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial Africa at large. Collaborative workshops will bring together scholars from performance studies, visual culture, cultural geography, gender and queer studies, digital humanities and African studies. In-depth archival research, the gathering of new and 'ordinary' archival material from public and private sources, oral histories and interviews will be made available as a public online archive. The forms of dissemination will have an extensive audience. These will include journal articles, interdisciplinary academic workshops, performance and curation workshops for pageant participants, a documentary and a digital archive.

该项目是埃克塞特大学和玛丽女王大学戏剧系、伦敦大学(英国)、开普敦大学(南非)档案馆和非洲研究中心、美国布朗大学非洲研究中心和第六区博物馆之间的合作项目。主要目的是研究、记录和传播大开普敦不同有色人种社区举办的春季女王和西开普省同性恋小姐选美比赛的档案。春季女皇选美大赛是一项独特的活动，来自南非西开普省服装和纺织业的有色人种女工每年都会争夺南部非洲服装和纺织工人工会(SACTWU)的“春季女皇”桂冠。公众对种族隔离的抵制经常导致暴力种族冲突，1970年代服装业第一次出现了以罢工形式报复低工资的行为。正是在这种持不同政见和强烈反对的气氛中，春季女王选美大赛在1978年左右出现。当地工会设计了这场选美比赛，作为缓解工人之间日益紧张的局势的一种方式。开普敦社交日程表上的一个亮点是，多达30000名支持者参加了在开普敦好希望中心举行的最后一场活动。这个项目将把春天女王定位为一个重大的文化转变时刻。随着纺织制造业越来越多地转移到中国，这可能是记录开普敦服装和纺织工人的最后机会。这场选美比赛见证了开普敦工厂工人在种族隔离期间和之后的生活。参赛者们生活在被边缘化和贫困的地区，主要是在亚特兰蒂斯和平地角，他们前往以白人为主的市中心参加选美比赛。对于这些表演活动来说，重要的是“莫菲”的身材，一个肤色古怪的男性，通常是变性人，他传统上是选美比赛的编舞和设计，但他被禁止参加比赛。西开普省同性恋小姐是在春季女王选美大赛和世界上第一部包括性少数群体保护的南非新宪法的基础上发展起来的，是一个让同性恋非白人在安全的环境中表演而不受剥削的平台。这个项目将调查这些选美比赛的意义以及它们所产生的表演。通过创建一个替代种族隔离时代使这些社区边缘化的档案，我们将参与重建南非的更广泛的民主实践，这首先是由真相与和解委员会发起的。我们将考虑：在选美比赛中的表演所产生的代表类别的破坏；“女王”形象中的解放和自决的表现；少数族裔社区的性别、美丽和另类性行为的构建；以及开普敦继续隔离空间。该项目旨在通过跨学科的视角提供一个关于边缘化生活的独特视角；它将以视觉、表演性和口述为重点，为表达以前被否认的叙事提供一个空间，这不仅将有利于这些社区，而且将有利于后种族隔离时代的南非和整个后殖民时代的非洲。合作讲习班将汇集来自表演研究、视觉文化、文化地理、性别和酷儿研究、数字人文和非洲研究的学者。深入的档案研究、从公共和私人来源收集新的和“普通的”档案材料、口述历史和访谈将作为公共在线档案提供。传播形式将拥有广泛的受众。这些将包括期刊文章、跨学科学术研讨会、为选美比赛参与者举办的表演和策展研讨会、一部纪录片和一个数字档案馆。