Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TransMigrArts (Transforming Migration by Arts)
Período documentado: 2021-01-01 hasta 2023-06-30
The reality of migration in the 21st century constitutes a major social challenge for Europe and the world at large. The TransMigrARTS project, Transforming migration through the arts, aims, from a methodology of applied research creation, to prove that doing live arts workshops (theatre, clown, dance, performance) with migrants can reduce the vulnerability of people who leave their country for reasons of violence, climate change, training, work or who are displaced by armed conflicts in the same territory, as in Colombia. The 13 higher education institutions and cultural companies in the four countries (France, Spain, Denmark and Colombia) are working on the design of prototype workshops based on different artistic languages that will be implemented in various associations, NGOs, communities hosting refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and workers. A tool from the field of art will make possible to evaluate the impact of these workshops on the participants who take part in them, in order to be able to support public policies on migration
In order to create the TransMigrARTS prototype workshops, the interdisciplinary and intergenerational network of artist-researchers met for a month at the beginning of the programme to create a method of observation for the 20 living arts workshops that took place in three countries with migrants (France, Spain and Colombia).
Thanks to the "Granada Guide", it was possible to verify the transformation of the participants in four categories: body, experience, creativity and group.
As a consequence of these research results and crossing with the practices carried out, during another month of collective work in Toulouse, in the middle of the programme, six prototype workshops were created, dealing with theatre, clown, dance, performance, writing, etc. and a proposal for complementary sessions (especially for children and women). A guide of principles, approaches and minimums offers recommendations for the implementation of these workshops in good conditions.
An evaluation method based on artistic variables was also created to measure the self-perception of the transformative impact of the workshop on people, called TransformARTS.
Thanks to the "Granada Guide", it was possible to verify the transformation of the participants in four categories: body, experience, creativity and group.
As a consequence of these research results and crossing with the practices carried out, during another month of collective work in Toulouse, in the middle of the programme, six prototype workshops were created, dealing with theatre, clown, dance, performance, writing, etc. and a proposal for complementary sessions (especially for children and women). A guide of principles, approaches and minimums offers recommendations for the implementation of these workshops in good conditions.
An evaluation method based on artistic variables was also created to measure the self-perception of the transformative impact of the workshop on people, called TransformARTS.
In the remaining two and a half years of the programme, the network will implement 14 workshops in the four countries, in order to validate and adjust the prototypes, in collaboration with other structures working with and accompanying migrants in order to disseminate the results and place them in different contexts. The reproducibility of the workshops and their adaptation to the different social, geographical, cultural and political environments in which they are implemented are the two axes that have structured the applied research creation work.
In July 2025, at the Summer School planned in Madrid, specialists will be able to train future workshop leaders. The musical comedy on migration will also be premiered, to further disseminate the research findings to the public.
In July 2025, at the Summer School planned in Madrid, specialists will be able to train future workshop leaders. The musical comedy on migration will also be premiered, to further disseminate the research findings to the public.