Descripción del proyecto
Cuando la transformación urbana cobra protagonismo
El desarrollo de la ciudad europea moderna se entrelazó con el surgimiento de instituciones teatrales tanto estatales como independientes. Pero ¿cuál es el papel del teatro en la ciudad del siglo XXI? El equipo del proyecto THEAGENT, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, sostiene que el teatro es clave para entender la política cultural de la transformación urbana contemporánea. A su vez, la ciudad global y sus nuevas economías productivas son fundamentales para entender el teatro contemporáneo. En THEAGENT se desarrollará estas afirmaciones centrándose en el teatro en general, incluida la asistencia al teatro como práctica de formación del sujeto urbano, el medio estético como espacio de representación de lo urbano y el propio teatro como institución. Combinando la investigación etnográfica y de archivos, el equipo del proyecto analizará cómo el teatro ha moldeado (y ha sido moldeado por) el aburguesamiento en cinco metrópolis europeas.
Objetivo
Since the European Middle Ages, the fates of theatre and the city have been intertwined. Mystery plays thrived amidst the urban guilds of medieval Paris, city comedies heralded merchant capitalism in seventeenth-century London, and Ottoman shadow puppetry shaped coffeehouse culture in nineteenth-century Istanbul. The emergence of the modern European city in particular was linked to the development of both state-sponsored and independent theatre institutions; theatre and performance practices drew on the human proximity that city living made possible, and shaped the visions of cultural heterogeneity that emerged from urban cohabitation. Today, unprecedented dynamics of migration, globalization, and rapid gentrification are fundamentally changing theatre’s importance in the urban environment. Theatre and performance practices are all but absent from urban studies, however, and theatre scholarship often views the urban question through a limited analytic lens.
Combining multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, this interdisciplinary research project will focus on the key cities of London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Istanbul to analyze the complicated and often ambivalent relationship between theatre practices and urban transformation in twenty-first-century Europe. Following key thematic threads like migration and memory, Theatre and Gentrification’s original case studies will illustrate the diversity of property relations and housing tenure across the European continent, as well as the complex roles that theatre and performance practices play in producing urban subjectivities and structuring the cultural politics of gentrification. Groundbreaking in its use of theatre as its vantage point, this ambitious project will change the way we think about the contradictions of culture in the twenty-first century city, from its role in securing claims to global urban stature, to its position within imaginaries of authentic local resistance.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
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Austria