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Networking Women's theatre in Africa

非洲女性剧院网络

基本信息

批准号：
AH/M008096/1
负责人：
Yvette Hutchison
金额：
$ 4.58万
依托单位：
University of Warwick
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM008096%2F1
关键词：
Networking Women theatre Africa

项目摘要

This project aims to use a mobile application to build a virtual community consisting of female creative practitioners living in Africa and involved in poetry, play writing, and theatre making both professionally and in community projects, with researchers and other interested parties engaged with literary or gender- based research in any part of the world. The mobile app will be available to all, including feature mobile phone users, and as an on-line site to computer-users.We envision this virtual community of women creative practitioners , theatre practitioners, researchers and other interested parties being able to 'discover' and engage with one another through this mobile app. Women creative practitioners who register will create on-line profiles with their contact details, the ability to upload playscripts, photos and links to video or youtube clips. All other users will specify their name, location and profession in order to participate in the forum discussions that are central function of this network, as well as accessing announcements and a live events listing. The forum is where we envision the collaborative analyse of issues and co-creation of knowledge regarding various concerns specific to the experiences of being contemporary African women will take place. This will involve moving away from static or macro approaches to our understanding of so-called 'African' identities that transcend the beleaguered discourses of 'gender and development' or 'empowerment'. Central to this project is the methodological approach that aims to place African-authored theories and practices related to gender, sexualities and identities at the centre of the study (see Bennett & Pereira, 2013). As such, the forum will facilitate discourse between female creative practitioners living in Africa regarding what issues related to the experiences of women in Africa need discussion, analysis and creative expression. In effect this will involve each participant both situating herself in her specific context, and then considering collective strategies for engaging in/ with these issues, as opposed to research questions being defined by what material or subjects are accessible, or pre-defined by the researcher. Conceptually then, the forums will aim to facilitate multiple levels of engagement, enabling users to interact with one another and compare methodologies, aesthetic choices and their impact on various communities in any way they choose, thereby broadening both content and the methodologies of our engagement with the emergent material.It will also facilitate other publics, including potential audiences, critics, producers, directors, artistic/literary managers and programmers to access and engage with under-represented creative practitioners, and thereby broaden awareness of these largely unrepresented women and their work. E1M will create the two virtual spaces, train PI and Co-I to manage and curate the user-submitted content, and report on site use, including running a regular survey related to site efficacy. As creative practitioner, Amy Jephta will curate the sites, moderating content, co-facilitate the forum discussions, and liaise between the Women Playwrights International conference committee and organization, the University of Cape Town and the research project. She and the PI will co-edit a collection of previously unpublished plays by African female playwrights (Methuen) that emerge from this project.As PI, Hutchison will co-facilitate the forum discussions, which will feed into her on-going research into how the aesthetics women creative practitioners in Africa are choosing to deploy in their work affect audience reception and engagement with the issues they raise. She will also participate in WPIC 2015, and co-edit African Theatre: Contemporary Women (James Currey) with African scholars Jane Plastow (University Leeds) and Christine Matzke (University Bayreuth, Germany) who will act as advisors to the project.

该项目旨在使用移动应用程序建立一个虚拟社区，由生活在非洲的女性创意从业者组成，她们从事诗歌、戏剧写作和戏剧制作，无论是专业还是社区项目，研究人员和其他感兴趣的团体在世界任何地方从事文学或基于性别的研究。移动应用程序将对所有人开放，包括功能手机用户，并作为在线网站对电脑用户开放。我们设想，通过这个移动应用程序，女性创意从业者、戏剧从业者、研究人员和其他感兴趣的各方能够“发现”并相互交流。注册的女性创意从业者将创建带有联系方式的在线档案，能够上传剧本、照片和视频或youtube剪辑的链接。所有其他用户将指定他们的姓名、位置和职业，以便参加作为该网络中心功能的论坛讨论，以及访问公告和实时事件列表。我们设想，在这个论坛上，将就当代非洲妇女的具体经历进行各种关切问题的协作分析和知识的共同创造。这将涉及从静态或宏观的方法转向我们对所谓的“非洲”身份的理解，这种身份超越了“性别与发展”或“赋权”等被围困的话语。该项目的核心是方法论方法，旨在将非洲人撰写的与性别、性行为和身份相关的理论和实践置于研究的中心（见Bennett & Pereira， 2013）。因此，该论坛将促进生活在非洲的女性创意从业者之间就需要讨论、分析和创造性表达与非洲妇女经验有关的问题进行讨论。实际上，这将涉及到每个参与者都将自己置于特定的环境中，然后考虑参与/处理这些问题的集体策略，而不是由可访问的材料或主题来定义研究问题，或者由研究人员预先定义。从概念上讲，论坛的目标是促进多层次的参与，使用户能够相互交流，并以他们选择的任何方式比较方法、审美选择及其对各种社区的影响，从而扩大我们与新兴材料接触的内容和方法。它还将促进其他公众，包括潜在的观众、评论家、制片人、导演、艺术/文学经理和程序员接触和参与代表性不足的创意从业者，从而扩大对这些基本上没有代表性的女性及其作品的认识。E1M将创建两个虚拟空间，培训PI和Co-I管理和策划用户提交的内容，并报告网站使用情况，包括运行与网站功效相关的定期调查。作为创意实践者，Amy Jephta将策划网站，主持内容，共同促进论坛讨论，并在女性剧作家国际会议委员会和组织，开普敦大学和研究项目之间保持联系。她和PI将共同编辑一本以前未发表的非洲女性剧作家（Methuen）的剧作集，这些剧作来自这个项目。作为PI， Hutchison将共同推动论坛讨论，这将为她正在进行的研究提供素材，即非洲女性创意从业者选择在其工作中部署的美学如何影响观众的接受和参与他们提出的问题。她还将参加2015年WPIC，并与非洲学者Jane Plastow（利兹大学）和Christine Matzke（德国拜罗伊特大学）共同编辑《非洲戏剧：当代女性》（James Currey），后者将担任该项目的顾问。