Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique

表演吉普赛人身份：战略和批评将组成一个由表演者、活动家、利益相关者和学者组成的网络，通过一系列基于现场的研讨会绘制欧洲目前的吉普赛人表演实践。这些讲习班将审查在每个地区与罗姆人社区合作和在其中工作的表演者面临的特殊挑战，并考虑如何利用和巩固表演以取得更大的效果。罗姆尼文化的特点是批判性表演和表演性的历史。一千年来，吉普赛人在欧洲的生存取决于采用和实行一些表演策略，包括口述历史、讲故事、音乐、舞蹈和戏剧，以及为社区本身和非吉普赛人演绎明了的吉普赛人身份的日常叙事。罗姆尼绩效、罗姆尼行为迭代与霸权知识生产之间的关系是什么？两者之间的差距是什么？在这些失误和重复中，机构的不同做法有多大潜力，特别是考虑到欧洲各地罗姆人主体目前面临的暴力？欧洲各地的罗姆人社区有多种表现和表演做法；然而，到目前为止，还没有一个统一的方法，也没有一个平台来分享这些社区的最佳做法。在这个网络中，我们希望满足这一需求。特别是，我们将研究这种多样性所产生的社会变革的潜力。讲习班将围绕三个关键主题组织：代表的陈规定型观念和主要做法、跨国固有的多样性和随之而来的地方特殊性的隐蔽性、跨国合作和方法谈判，使有效参与成为可能。讲习班将根据每个地点罗姆人社区面临的不同历史和当前背景以及不同的挑战，采取不同的方式和方式，并与主要参与者协商。每个研讨会将由主持人致开幕词，概述其所在地区的情况，并由PI和Co-I制定项目框架，列出网络的目标。讲习班将使用多种语言，必要时由东道主提供当地翻译。我们将利用当地的知识和专业知识，认真注意每个地区的具体情况。通过这种方式，讲习班将利用参与者的艺术、活动家、学术和表演专长，以便针对当前的危险产生持续的反应，通过罗姆人表演实践开辟新的知识生产形式。讲习班将与伊斯坦布尔、布加勒斯特、里昂和阿利坎特的学术机构和利益攸关方合作举办，并在伦敦举行最后一次专题讨论会，以传播研究结果并制定确保未来资金的战略。这些讲习班将介绍最佳做法，包括技术的使用。重点将放在不同地点的罗姆人社区之间、社区内部和社区之间的共同点和差异上。我们特别感兴趣的是通过表演将社区联系起来的技术可能性。鉴于目前罗姆人面临的危机的紧迫性，我们将探讨多媒体和现场表演相结合所提供的机会。特别是，如何最有效地利用这种融合，在罗姆人社区、社区和国家边界内和跨国界开展积极的社会实践。

Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique will constitute a network of performers, activists, stakeholders and academics to map current Romani performance practices in Europe through a series of site based workshops. These workshops will examine the particular challenges facing performers working with and within Romani communities in each area and consider how performance might be harnessed and consolidated to greater effect. Romani culture is marked by a history of critical performance and performativity. Romani survival in Europe, over the course of a millennium, has been contingent upon the adoption and practice of a number of performance strategies, including oral history, storytelling, music, dance and theatre, as well as upon everyday narratives that perform intelligible Romani identities for both the community itself and for non-Roma. What is the relationship between Romani performance, Romani iterations of performativity and hegemonic knowledge production? What are the slippages between the two? What is the potential in these slippages and iterations for different practices of agency, especially in light of the current violence confronting Romani subjects across Europe?There is a multiplicity of performance and performative practice by and for Romani communities across Europe; to date, however, there has been neither a consolidated approach nor a platform to share best practice across these communities. In this network, we look to address this need. In particular, we will examine the potential for social change produced from within this multiplicity. As well as mapping how such performance strategies are currently being used, through the workshops themselves, we will establish new possibilities for Romani performance as political strategy.The workshops will be organised around three key themes: Stereotypes and dominant practices of representationDiversity and the concomitant invisibility of local specificity, inherent in transnationalismCollaboration and the negotiation of methodologies that make effective engagement possibleThe workshops will be approached and inflected differently according to the historical and current contexts and varying challenges faced by Romani communities in each site, and constructed in consultation with the key participants. Each workshop will include an opening address by the host outlining the position in their area with a framing of the project by the PI and Co-I laying out the aims of the network. The workshops will be multilingual with local translators provided by the hosts where required. We will pay careful attention to the specifics of each locale, drawing upon local knowledge and expertise. In this way, the workshops will draw upon the arts, activist, scholarly and performance expertise of participants in order to generate a sustained response in light of the dangers of the current moment, opening up new forms of knowledge production through Romani performance practice.The workshops will be conducted in partnership with academic institutions and stake holders in Istanbul, Bucharest, Lyon and Alicante with a final symposium in London to disseminate findings and develop a strategy to secure future funding. These workshops will map best practice, including the use of technology. A key focus will be on the commonalities and differences between, within and among Romani communities from diverse sites. We are especially interested in the technological possibilities for linking communities through performance. In view of the urgency of the current crisis facing Roma, we will explore the opportunities afforded by the integration of multimedia and live performance. Particularly, how this integration might be utilised most effectively for an engaged social practice within and across Romani neighbourhoods, communities, and national borders.