Performance-based co-creation with young people as political activism: contextualising and disseminating the work of Fevered Sleep

本项目探讨了代际合作制作和保存基于表演的作品的方式，以帮助克服儿童和年轻人的边缘化，形成他们的世界观，塑造他们的政治行动主义。它以广受好评的“狂热睡眠”公司的三部重要作品为重点，该公司的开创性作品是英国与年轻人共同创作的一种政治激进主义的长期历史的一部分，尽管记录很少，理论不足。该项目描绘了该组织与年轻人合作的演变过程，并将其置于那些鲜为人知或未被承认的历史中。它将借鉴表演和文化研究、社会学和儿童研究，并创新性地在这些领域之间建立桥梁，挖掘、探索和传播使人们能够更有效地看到和听到儿童的做法。儿童和年轻人将参与整个项目生命周期，作为直接影响研究成果的受访者和受众，并在活动和研讨会中与成年人平等地作为贡献者。该项目促进了创意从业者和研究人员之间关于与年轻人共同创造的交流，并使fever Sleep能够将他们的工作方法存档并向更广泛的公众展示，阐明他们的独特贡献并传播最佳实践。

This project explores the ways in which intergenerational co-production of performance-based works and their preservation can help overcome the marginalisation of children and young people, formulate their worldviews, and shape their political activism. It takes as its focal point three key productions by the widely acclaimed company Fevered Sleep whose pioneering work is part of a long, if poorly documented and under-theorised history of co-creation with young people as a form of political activism in the UK. The project charts the evolution of the organisation's work with young people and situates it within those little-known or unacknowledged histories. Drawing on performance and cultural studies, sociology and childhood studies, and innovatively building bridges between those fields, it will excavate, explore and disseminate practices which enable children to be more effectively seen and heard. Children and young people will be engaged throughout the project lifecycle, as interviewees and audiences directly shaping research outputs and as contributors on an equal footing to adults in events and workshops. The project facilitates exchange between creative practitioners and researchers concerning co-creation with young people and enables Fevered Sleep to archive and present their working methods to the wider public, articulate their distinctive contribution and disseminate best-practice.