Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique

表现罗姆人的身份：策略与批评

• 批准号: AH/M000044/1
• 负责人: Jane Collins
• 金额: $ 4.58万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts 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%2FM000044%2F1
• 关键词: Performing; Romani; Identities; Strategy; Critique

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.

表演罗姆人身份：策略与批评将建立一个由表演者、活动家、利益相关者和学者组成的网络，通过一系列现场研讨会来绘制欧洲当前罗姆人的表演实践。这些研讨会将研究与每个地区的罗姆人社区合作以及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。罗姆文化以批判性表演和表演性的历史为标志。千禧年来，罗姆人在欧洲的生存取决于多种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，以及为社区本身和非罗姆人表现出可理解的罗姆人身份的日常叙事。罗姆人的表演、罗姆人的表演性迭代与霸权知识生产之间有什么关系？两者之间有哪些滑点？这些滑移和迭代对于不同的代理实践有什么潜力，特别是考虑到当前欧洲各地罗姆人主体面临的暴力？欧洲各地的罗姆人社区有多种表演和表演实践；然而，迄今为止，既没有统一的方法，也没有一个平台来在这些社区之间分享最佳实践。在这个网络中，我们希望满足这一需求。特别是，我们将研究这种多样性产生的社会变革的潜力。除了描绘目前如何使用这些表演策略外，通过研讨会本身，我们还将为罗姆人的表演作为政治策略建立新的可能性。研讨会将围绕三个关键主题组织：代表性的刻板印象和主导实践、跨国主义固有的多样性和随之而来的地方特色的不可见性、使有效参与成为可能的合作和方法论的谈判。 根据每个地点的历史和当前背景以及罗姆人社区面临的不同挑战，采取不同的方法和变形，并与主要参与者协商构建。每个研讨会将包括主持人的开幕致辞，概述其所在领域的立场，以及 PI 和 Co-I 制定的项目框架，阐述网络的目标。研讨会将采用多种语言，并根据需要由主办方提供当地翻译。我们将密切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，以便针对当前的危险做出持续的反应，通过罗姆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相关者合作举办，并在伦敦举行最后一次研讨会，以传播研究结果和 制定一项战略以确保未来的资金来源。这些研讨会将绘制最佳实践，包括技术的使用。重点关注不同地点的罗姆人社区之间、内部和之间的共性和差异。我们对通过性能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，我们将探索多媒体与现场表演相结合所提供的机会。特别是，如何最有效地利用这种整合来开展罗姆人社区、社区和国界内部和之间的参与性社会实践。

项目成果

Scenography Expanded

场景设计扩展

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Brooks E.;Collins J.
• 通讯作者: Collins J.