Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più attento ad artisti turchi e curdi in Europa
I recenti eventi politici in Turchia hanno condotto all’esodo di intellettuali, attori e autori turchi e curdi. Il progetto ExiLives, finanziato dall’UE, passerà in rassegna le storie di vita in esilio di artisti teatrali di origini turche e curde e le interazioni esistenti tra di esse. Inoltre, analizzerà gli effetti collettivi sul teatro risultanti da queste esperienze. In particolare, il progetto svilupperà una metodologia interdisciplinare basata sulla ricerca etnografica e sull’analisi socio-estetica del teatro e creerà un archivio digitale sulle arti del teatro e dello spettacolo, nel quadro del recente esilio degli artisti turchi e curdi. Il progetto, con la descrizione e l’analisi delle differenze tra i contesti locali e nazionali di residenza degli artisti, farà luce sugli attuali meccanismi di supporto e sulle reti di artisti nei diversi contesti urbani.
Obiettivo
ExiLives focuses on currently exiled theatre artists from Turkey (Turkish and Kurdish) in European cities. It investigates the entanglement of artists' personal exilic life stories and the collective affects that theatre works based on these experiences can emanate. It sets out to develop a new interdisciplinary methodology utilizing ethnographic research and socio-aesthetic theatre analysis (informed by theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, political sociology, diaspora and exile studies).
ExiLives will create a digital archive of artistic expressions in the theatre and performing arts that deal with the recent exodus of intellectuals, artists and authors from Turkey. It will also map out and discuss the differences between the local and national contexts of the respective artist residencies as well as the efficacy of existing support mechanisms, exchange programs and artist networks in different urban contexts.
The theatre arts are discussed for their utility in understanding new political subjectivities and aesthetic practices emerging from the exilic situation. Representations of the exilic life are not regarded as mere reflections of a social reality. They are gauged as models for that reality, where the workings of aesthetics and performative affects aim to impact cultural debates of community, conviviality, social justice, peace, dignity, and free speech. Hence, the research will shed new light on how seemingly marginal artistic initiatives destabilize but also reimagine ways of being political, thereby constituting a conceptual basis for newly emerging political subjectivities in Europe.
As a precarious theatre scholar who worked and researched in Turkey but left due to political pressures, the Experienced Researcher has first-hand experience with the implications of exilic life. He is part of the solidarity networks for academics and artists at risk from Turkey, from which he will emerge as a key expert in the field.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
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