The Study of Gender and Theatre/Performance: on Asian Women Artists

该项目是作为与科学研究助学金(C)(1)的联合研究进行的，为期三年(2004-2006)。我们已经收到了前两年(2002-2003)的科学研究补助金(C)(1)。因此，这项研究项目一直是第一个项目的延续，我们的目标没有重大变化。我们正在进行的目标之一是制定理论框架，帮助我们加深对戏剧/表演和当代艺术领域的亚洲女性艺术家作品的理解。在我们的研究中，我们借鉴了性别和后殖民研究的批评视角。在项目期间，我们继续关注目前在几个地点(日本、韩国、北美、加拿大等)工作的当代亚洲女性艺术家的作品。把这些女性艺术家的作品放在我们项目的中心，为我们的理论发展提供了重要的基础和视角…更多的是在东亚的地缘政治背景下。也就是说，通过观察“亚洲女性”艺术家在20世纪帝国主义和殖民主义历史背景下的不同表现，以及由此导致的不可避免的移民和流亡经历，我们现在能够更好地理解和阐明该地区形成“戏剧/表演艺术和性别”的复杂力量。随着这些“散居海外”的经历在21世纪继续下去，审视这些不同的表达形式，以及它们如何抵制和背离“同质全球文化”或“多元文化社会”的自由主义概念的主流叙事，将变得更加重要。我们组织和协调了许多与这一研究项目相关的项目，在这些项目中，艺术家、活动家和学者可以为创造性表达和批评话语的对话和交流开辟替代空间。我们认为，这些新兴的跨国空间在后殖民主义和性别话语的交叉点上既培育了新的创造性表达形式，也培育了理论映射。较少

This project was conducted as a joint research with a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Reseach(C)(1) for three years (2004 2006). We had already received a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)(1) for the previous two years (2002 2003). Therefore, this research project has been a continuation of the first one, and there have been no major changes in our aim. One of our ongoing aims has been to formulate theoretical frameworks that will help deepen our understanding of works by Asian women artists in the field of Theatre/Performance and Contemporary Art. In our research, we have drawn on - the critical perspectives of Gender and Post-colonial Studies.During the project, we have continued to focus on the work of contemporary Asian women artists who currently work in several locations (Japan, South Korea, North America, Canada, etc.). Placing the work of these women artists at the center of our project has given our approach to theoretical developments an important grounding and perspective … More in the geo-political context of East Asia. That is, by looking at the diverse expressions of "Asian Women" artists in the context of histories of imperialism and colonialism in the 20^<th> century, and the unavoidable experiences of migration and exile which have resulted, we are now better able to understand and articulate the complex forces shaping "Theatre/Performance Art and Gender" in the region. As these "diasporic" experiences continue in the 21^<st> century, it will become even more important to examine these diverse forms of expression and ways in which they resist and diverge from dominant narratives of "homogeneous global culture" or liberal notions of "multi-cultural societies."We have organized and coordinated numerous projects related to this research project in which artists, activists, and academics could open alternative spaces for dialogues and exchanges of creative expressions and critical discourses. We believe that these emerging, transnational spaces have fostered both new forms of creative expression and theoretical mappings at points where discourses on postcoloniality and gender intersect. Less