Interdisciplinary approaches to representing workers conditions in performance

我的创作实践博士将包括一系列音乐剧作品，这些作品模拟和刺激了当代劳动力的不稳定状况。参赛作品的核心将是《脚跟与脚趾》，这是一部集木屐舞者、声音、视频和器乐合奏于一体的大型作品。我的工作将探索如何将不同的艺术实践（例如，踢踏舞，器乐作曲和多屏幕视频）结合在一起，创造意想不到的跨学科形式。我的项目将提出这样的问题：跨学科绩效如何反映、表现或转化对当代劳动力快速变化的需求？对后福特主义理论的严格研究是否有助于强化与主题搏斗的表演作品？对于观众和更广泛的社会来说，政治上的利害关系在于，这些生活和工作的转变所产生的感受，是应该被视为导致自助思考的个人问题，还是应该被视为导致更广泛的讨论和政治组织的集体问题。我相信跨学科的表演很好地揭示了新的工作世界所产生的身份、代理、自由和权力等问题的复杂纠缠。

My creative practice PhD will comprise of a portfolio of musical theatre works that simulate andstimulate the precarious conditions of the contemporary workforce. The centrepiece of thesubmission will be Heel and Toe, a large-scale work for clog dancers, voice, video andinstrumental ensemble. My work will explore how collisions of diverse artistic practices (e.g., tapdance, instrumental composition, and multiscreen video) can be brought together tocreate unexpected forms of interdisciplinarity. My project will ask: How might interdisciplinaryperformance reflect on, represent or translate the rapidly changing set of demands placed on thecontemporary workforce? Can a rigorous engagement with post-fordist theory help sharpenperformance works which grapple with the theme? What's at stake politically here for audiencesand the wider society is whether the feelings created by these shifts of living and working shouldbe seen as the problem of the individual, leading to self-help thinking, or of the collective, leadingto broader discourse and political organising. I believe interdisciplinary performance is well set toshine light on the complicated entanglement of issues around identity, agency, freedom andpower that the new world of work has produced.