Porous Dramaturgy: 'Togetherness' and Community in the Structure of the Artwork

这个网络将讨论在互动的、身临其境的、特定地点的或以其他方式“漏洞百出”的艺术作品中形成或隐含的社区，确定它们对剧院机构及其社会角色的影响。我们创造了“多孔性”戏剧学这个词来描述这部作品，这与库利·蒂亚雷的“多孔性”戏剧机构的想法相对应，这种机构对合作开放，使用灵活，并催化超出其自身围墙的活动。我们问，“多孔性”的艺术作品是否将这种多孔性的民主目标构建到自己的结构中，以及/或者它是否是修改和发展“团结”和社区概念的关键合作伙伴，并对制作组织产生影响。我们的项目合作伙伴是来自克罗地亚杜布罗夫尼克和北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特的从业者。随着克罗地亚准备加入欧盟，我们有兴趣探索与这一政治背景有关的网络想法，并与该国建立新的联系。北爱尔兰还提供了一个机会，在政治压力很大的地方和全国范围内讨论这项工作的政治意义。两个活动将把所有网络参与者聚集在一起讨论这些问题，还将通过关于影子法师(克罗地亚)和Wright&Sites(英国)工作的研讨会，让网络参与者直接体验“渗透”战略。第一个活动将集中在影子演员的工作，在一个研讨会上，审查他们的三部曲《同居》的原则和过程，该三部曲发生在一座剧院建筑内，使观众作为社区成为直接关注的对象。第二个活动将集中于Wright&Sites在英格兰西南部的特定地点实践，作为与地点相关的身份的参与。该电视网将访问他们在Weston-Super-Mare的公共艺术品《建造城镇所需的一切都在这里》(2010)。通过介绍这些案例研究，我们的目的是承认海伦·弗雷什沃特的建议，即戏剧学术倾向于通过在我们的方法中进行经验性的探究(尽管不是社会学的一部分)来审查观众本身的经历(2009)。网络参与者将包括戏剧制作人、艺术家、戏剧家和学者。每个网络将以一个公开论坛结束，以便与来自不同领域的学者和当地艺术组织的利益相关者进行更广泛的辩论。国际和国际组织将编写报告，报告这些讨论，并将在克罗地亚的杜布罗夫尼克和北爱尔兰的贝尔法斯特举行的另外两个公开小组活动中，国际和国际组织将与项目合作伙伴--影子演员和Tinderbox Theatre(NI.)Dramaturg的Hanna Slattne讨论网络调查结果。通过该项目，一个在线博客将记录和传播其进展情况，还将提供一个论坛，供网络成员编辑评论和扩大投稿，他们将发表论文、讨论和其他投稿。将在相关网站上放置链接，以提高对相关学术和专业背景的认识。在上述四项活动之后，主计处和主计处将在国际学术会议上发表论文(如2013年国际学术研讨会)，并在同行评议的出版物上发表两篇文章(包括一本跨学科出版物，如《社会和文化地理学》)和一本书的章节(《戏剧学和建筑学》，与帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦签约)。博客网站上将包括一份在线报告。

This network will discuss communities formed or implicit in interactive, immersive, site-specific or otherwise 'porous' artworks, identifying their implications for the theatre institution and its social role. We have coined the term 'porous' dramaturgy to describe this work, as a counterpart to Kully Thiarai's idea of a 'porous' theatre institution, which is open to collaboration, is flexible in its use and which catalyses activities beyond its own walls. We ask whether 'porous' artwork has the democratic aims of this porosity built into its own structure, and/or whether it is a critical partner in modifying and developing concepts of 'togetherness' and community, with implications for producing organisations. Our project partners are practitioners from Dubrovnik, Croatia and Belfast, Northern Ireland. As Croatia prepares to join the EU, we are interested in exploring network ideas in relation to this political context and forging new links with this country. Northern Ireland also provides an opportunity to discuss the political significance of the work within a politically pressurised local and national context.Two events will bring all network participants together to discuss these questions and will also engage the network participants in direct experience of 'porous' strategies through workshops on the work of Shadow Casters (Croatia) and Wrights & Sites (UK). The first event will focus on the work of Shadow Casters, in a workshop examining the principles and processes of their trilogy, 'On Togetherness', which takes place within a theatre building, making the audience-as-community its direct concern. The second event will focus on Wrights & Sites' site-specific practice in South West England as an engagement with identities connected to place. The network will visit their public artwork in Weston-super-Mare, 'Everything you need to build a town is here' (2010). By introducing these case studies, we aim to acknowledge Helen Freshwater's suggestion that theatre scholarship has tended not to examine the experiences of audiences themselves (2009) by making an experiential enquiry (albeit not a sociological one) part of our approach. Network participants will include theatre producers, artists, dramaturgs and academics. Each network will end with an open forum to enable wider debate with academics from a range of fields and with local stakeholders from arts organisations.The PI and CI will produce papers reporting on these discussions to two further public panel events which will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the PI and CI will discuss network findings with project partners, Shadow Casters and Hanna Slattne, dramaturg for Tinderbox Theatre (N.I). This will enable the network findings to be considered and inflected through relationship to the challenges of specific national and socio-political contexts.Throughout the project, an online blog will document and disseminate its progress and will also provide a forum for edited commentary and extended contributions from network members, who will contribute papers, discussions and other contributions. Links will be placed on relevant websites to raise awareness in relevant academic and professional contexts. Subsequent to the four events described above, the PI and CI will deliver papers at international academic conferences (e.g. IFTR 2013) and publish two articles in peer reviewed publications (including a cross-disciplinary publication such as 'Social and Cultural Geography') and a book chapter (in 'Dramaturgy and Architecture', contracted to Palgrave Macmillan). An online report will be included on the blog site.