Supporting Indigenous Creative Economies in a Digital Age

2019冠状病毒病大流行加剧了印度土著和游牧社区的边缘化和不稳定性，消除了以艺术和表演为基础的传统生计，并使这些社区陷入极端贫困。该项目将通过巩固在AHRC资助的项目“利用艺术减轻Covid-19对印度土著和游牧社区的影响”中发展的知识和技能，为将这些创造性实践转化为可以在数字创意经济中传播的形式创造可能性。这一点至关重要，这样，在新冠疫情加速下，数字作为主要文化空间的出现，才不会在生计、文化遗产和身份认同方面抹杀边缘化社区。在最初的项目中，一群土著戏剧从业者和电影制作人用土著语言制作了一系列双周视频播客，将艺术实践与实地研究和纪录片制作技术结合在一起，以突出2019冠状病毒病大流行对印度一些最边缘化群体的经历和影响。根据该项目，后续资金将为在3个社区团体实施的土著创意领导方案开发一个培训模块，目的是翻译土著社区的创意遗产，并以数字形式记录他们的现实。这一方案对于促进创新和使他们的艺术、生计和知识基础能够长期可持续发展至关重要。该项目将进一步建立一个可检索的土著社区在原人权委员会项目期间制作的创造性遗产的视听材料档案。这些可搜索的档案将通过合作的多模式出版物（包括视频、照片、故事、诗歌）的生产而活跃起来，这些出版物将通过与原始材料的链接来讲述这些社区的故事。这将使这些群体的经验有助于理解2019冠状病毒病大流行带来的人类灾难，以及印度土著社区边缘化的结构性和历史机制。它还将使土著表达得到关注，从而加强其创意经济。最后，该项目将以目前的项目为基础，使位置相似的群体（国际上的土著社区群体和领导人）能够交流经验，以加深对土著社区在2019冠状病毒病大流行背景下经验的特殊性的理解。这将通过土著社区和团体参加的国际会议进行，这些社区和团体一直在讨论这一大流行病对这些社区的影响、他们的创造性做法及其在创意经济中的地位。

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the marginality and precariouness of indigeneous and nomadic communities in India, erasing traditional artistic and performance based livelihoods and pushing these communities into extreme poverty. The project will create the possibilities for the translation of these creative practices to forms that can circulate in the digital creative economy, through the consolidation of the learnings and skills developed in the AHRC funded project 'Using the arts to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 among India's Indigenous and Nomadic communities'. This is crucial so that the emergence of the digital as a primary cultural space, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, does not obliterate marginalised communities in terms of their livelihood, cultural heritage and identity. During the original project, a collective of indigenous theatre practitioners and filmmakers produced a series of biweekly video-podcasts in indigenous languages bringing together artistic practices with on-ground research and documentary film making techniques to highlight the experiences and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on some of India's most marginalised groups. Drawing on this project, the follow-on funding will develop of a training module for an Indigenous Creative Leadership Programme implemented in 3 community groups, aimed at translating the creative heritage of indigenous communities, and document their realities, in a digital form. This programme will be crucial to fostering innovation and enabling the long-term sustainability of their art, livelihood and knowledge base. The project will further generate a searchable archive of audio-visual material of the creative heritage of indigenous communities produced during the original AHRC project. This searchable archive will be given an active life through the production of a collaborative multimodal publication (including videos, photographs, stories, poetry) that will tell the stories of these communities with links to the original material. This will enable the experiences of these groups to feed into the understanding of the still unfurling human disaster of the Covid-19 pandemic, and of the structural and historical mechanisms of marginalisation of India's indigenous communities. It will also give visibility to indigenous expressions strengthening their creative economies. Finally, the project will build on the current project to enable an exchange of experiences of similarly located groups (indigenous community groups and leaders internationally) to develop an understanding of the particularlity of the experiences of indigenous communities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This will be through an international conference involving indigenous communities and groups that have been addressing the implications of the pandemic on these communities, their creative practices and their place in the creative economy.