Interdisciplinary approaches to representing workers conditions in performance

我的创造性实践博士将包括一系列音乐剧作品，模拟和刺激当代劳动力的不稳定条件。提交的中心作品将是《脚跟和脚趾》，这是一部为木屐舞者、声音、视频和乐器合奏而创作的大型作品。我的作品将探讨不同艺术实践的碰撞（例如，踢踏舞、器乐作曲和多屏幕视频）可以结合在一起，创造出意想不到的跨学科形式。我的项目会问：跨学科绩效如何反映、代表或转化对当代劳动力快速变化的要求？对后福特主义理论的严格参与是否有助于锐化那些抓住主题的表演作品？对于观众和更广泛的社会来说，政治上的利害关系是，这些生活和工作的转变所产生的感受是否应该被视为个人的问题，导致自助思想，还是集体的问题，导致更广泛的话语和政治组织。我相信，跨学科的表演很好地揭示了新的工作世界所产生的围绕身份、能动性、自由和权力的复杂纠缠。

My creative practice PhD will comprise of a portfolio of musical theatre works that simulate andstimulate the precarious conditions of the contemporary workforce. The centrepiece of thesubmission will be Heel and Toe, a large-scale work for clog dancers, voice, video andinstrumental ensemble. My work will explore how collisions of diverse artistic practices (e.g., tapdance, instrumental composition, and multiscreen video) can be brought together tocreate unexpected forms of interdisciplinarity. My project will ask: How might interdisciplinaryperformance reflect on, represent or translate the rapidly changing set of demands placed on thecontemporary workforce? Can a rigorous engagement with post-fordist theory help sharpenperformance works which grapple with the theme? What's at stake politically here for audiencesand the wider society is whether the feelings created by these shifts of living and working shouldbe seen as the problem of the individual, leading to self-help thinking, or of the collective, leadingto broader discourse and political organising. I believe interdisciplinary performance is well set toshine light on the complicated entanglement of issues around identity, agency, freedom andpower that the new world of work has produced.