Recycled Reality and Theatrical Memory: Staging Difficult Pasts

这个以实践为基础的博士将分析社会和文化记忆是如何在“循环现实”的当代表演中形成的(马丁，2012)。通过这个项目，我打算开发和应用一种方法来创造与“艰难的过去”相联系的表演。我效仿了莱斯(2020)，把“艰难的过去”说成是那些“与现有的社会神话对立，难以被宏大或英雄的叙事所同化”的过去。为了做到这一点，我将分析当代戏剧制作人的作品，他们对探索记忆这一艺术实践的来源和结果有着浓厚的兴趣。主要的案例研究将把我自己的表演放在与Lola Arias，Milo Rau和Tiago Rodrigues的对话中。这提供了一个将多个文化生产场所与构建社会和文化记忆联系起来的跨国框架；因此，该项目侧重于记忆，以挑战欧洲想象中(东方/西方、北方/南方)的清晰界限，并考虑表演形式如何使观众能够批判性地反思自己在后威权和后殖民历史中所涉及的地位。

This practice-based PhD will analyze how social and cultural memory is shaped in contemporary performances that 'recycle reality' (Martin, 2012). Through this project, I intend to develop and apply a methodology for creating performance that engages with 'difficult pasts'. I follow Lease (2020) in articulating 'difficult pasts' as those that are 'antagonistic towards existing social myths, and difficult to assimilate in grand or heroic narratives'. In order to do so, I will analyze the works of contemporary theatre-makers who share a deep interest in exploring memory as both a source and a consequence of their artistic practice. Primary case studies will place my own performance making in dialogue with Lola Arias, Milo Rau and Tiago Rodrigues. This offers a transnational framework that links multiple sites of cultural production to the construction of social and cultural memory; the project thus focuses on memory in order to challenge neat boundaries that bifurcate European imaginaries (East/West, North/South) and to consider how performance forms enable spectators to reflect critically on their own implicated positions in postauthoritarian and postcolonial histories.