Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique

表演罗姆人身份：策略与批判将构成一个由表演者、活动家、利益相关者和学者组成的网络，通过一系列基于现场的研讨会来绘制当前欧洲罗姆人表演实践的地图。这些讲习班将审查在每个地区与罗姆人社区合作和在罗姆人社区内工作的表演者所面临的特殊挑战，并考虑如何利用和巩固表演以取得更大的效果。罗马文化以批判表演和表演的历史为标志。一千年来，罗姆人在欧洲的生存取决于许多表演策略的采用和实践，包括口述历史、讲故事、音乐、舞蹈和戏剧，以及日常叙事，这些叙事为罗姆社区本身和非罗姆人表现出可理解的罗姆人身份。罗马人的表演，罗马人对表演的迭代和霸权知识生产之间的关系是什么？两者之间的差距是什么？在这些疏漏和反复中，不同机构实践的潜力是什么，特别是考虑到目前欧洲各地罗姆人面临的暴力问题？欧洲各地的罗姆人社区有多种多样的表演和表演实践；然而，到目前为止，既没有一个统一的方法，也没有一个平台可以在这些社区之间分享最佳实践。在这个网络中，我们希望解决这一需求。特别是，我们将研究从这种多样性中产生的社会变革的潜力。除了绘制目前如何使用这种表演策略之外，通过讲习班本身，我们将为罗姆人表演作为政治策略建立新的可能性。工作坊将围绕以下三个主题举办：代表性的刻板印象和主导实践多样性和伴随而来的地方特殊性的不可见性，跨国主义固有的合作和方法谈判使有效参与成为可能。工作坊将根据历史和当前背景以及每个地点罗姆人社区面临的不同挑战进行不同的处理和变化，并与主要参与者协商构建。每次研讨会将包括主持人的开幕致辞，概述他们在各自领域的立场，并由PI和Co-I制定项目框架，列出网络的目标。讲习班将采用多种语文，必要时由主办单位提供当地翻译。我们将仔细关注每个地区的具体情况，利用当地的知识和专业知识。通过这种方式，讲习班将利用参与者的艺术、活动家、学术和表演专业知识，以便根据当前的危险产生持续的反应，通过罗姆人的表演实践开辟新的知识生产形式。讲习班将与伊斯坦布尔、布加勒斯特、里昂和阿利坎特的学术机构和利益攸关方合作举办，并在伦敦举行最后一次专题讨论会，以传播研究结果并制定一项战略，以确保今后获得资金。这些讲习班将描绘最佳做法，包括技术的使用。重点将放在不同地点的罗姆人社区之间、社区内部和社区之间的共性和差异上。我们对通过表演连接社区的技术可能性特别感兴趣。鉴于罗马目前面临的危机的紧迫性，我们将探索多媒体和现场表演相结合的机会。特别是，如何将这种融合最有效地用于罗姆人社区、社区和国家边界内部和跨社区的社会实践。

Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique will constitute a network of performers, activists, stakeholders and academics to map current Romani performance practices in Europe through a series of site based workshops. These workshops will examine the particular challenges facing performers working with and within Romani communities in each area and consider how performance might be harnessed and consolidated to greater effect. Romani culture is marked by a history of critical performance and performativity. Romani survival in Europe, over the course of a millennium, has been contingent upon the adoption and practice of a number of performance strategies, including oral history, storytelling, music, dance and theatre, as well as upon everyday narratives that perform intelligible Romani identities for both the community itself and for non-Roma. What is the relationship between Romani performance, Romani iterations of performativity and hegemonic knowledge production? What are the slippages between the two? What is the potential in these slippages and iterations for different practices of agency, especially in light of the current violence confronting Romani subjects across Europe?There is a multiplicity of performance and performative practice by and for Romani communities across Europe; to date, however, there has been neither a consolidated approach nor a platform to share best practice across these communities. In this network, we look to address this need. In particular, we will examine the potential for social change produced from within this multiplicity. As well as mapping how such performance strategies are currently being used, through the workshops themselves, we will establish new possibilities for Romani performance as political strategy.The workshops will be organised around three key themes: Stereotypes and dominant practices of representationDiversity and the concomitant invisibility of local specificity, inherent in transnationalismCollaboration and the negotiation of methodologies that make effective engagement possibleThe workshops will be approached and inflected differently according to the historical and current contexts and varying challenges faced by Romani communities in each site, and constructed in consultation with the key participants. Each workshop will include an opening address by the host outlining the position in their area with a framing of the project by the PI and Co-I laying out the aims of the network. The workshops will be multilingual with local translators provided by the hosts where required. We will pay careful attention to the specifics of each locale, drawing upon local knowledge and expertise. In this way, the workshops will draw upon the arts, activist, scholarly and performance expertise of participants in order to generate a sustained response in light of the dangers of the current moment, opening up new forms of knowledge production through Romani performance practice.The workshops will be conducted in partnership with academic institutions and stake holders in Istanbul, Bucharest, Lyon and Alicante with a final symposium in London to disseminate findings and develop a strategy to secure future funding. These workshops will map best practice, including the use of technology. A key focus will be on the commonalities and differences between, within and among Romani communities from diverse sites. We are especially interested in the technological possibilities for linking communities through performance. In view of the urgency of the current crisis facing Roma, we will explore the opportunities afforded by the integration of multimedia and live performance. Particularly, how this integration might be utilised most effectively for an engaged social practice within and across Romani neighbourhoods, communities, and national borders.