Portmann, Alexandra (June 2023). Instiutional Dramaturgy as Imaginative Practice (Unpublished). In: European Association for Theatre and Performance: Dimensions of Dramaturgy.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The opening up of institutions, participation and diversity are keywords that have shaped cultural funding in German-speaking Europe at least since the international #Me Too and Black Lives Matter protests. Working conventions, existing structures and unquestioned rules within institutions are the focus of criticism and should be questioned and changed through support programs, for example with the help of a coaching person. If, following Boenisch (2021), institutional dramaturgy is understood as an analytical category that examines the interrelationship between values, aesthetic practices, and institutional processes, then this paper aims to explore the value of participation and opening up the institution on the basis of selected production houses in Switzerland (e.g. Gessnerallee Zürich and Kaserne Basel). The focus of the presentaton will be on internal processes such as working methods and production conventions (e.g. Kunst 2015, Harvie 2013) as well as on the institution's communication strategies and self-positioning in the sense of Trenscényi’s macrodramaturgy (Trenscényi 2015). Following Bojan Kunst's understanding of the institution as a potentiality that performatively produces itself through its own practices (Kunst 2018), the paper assumes that the values of openness and participation have been performatively brought forth through the construction and maintenance of organized networks (Rossiter/Lovink 2018).
In addition to my theoretical discussion of the concept of institutional dramaturgy along selected case studies, the paper also offers a methodological reflection on how institutional dramaturgy can be analyzed using tools from the Digital Humanities such as topic modeling and network visualization (Varela 2021).
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Theater Studies |
UniBE Contributor: |
Portmann, Alexandra |
Subjects: |
700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Alexandra Portmann |
Date Deposited: |
28 Mar 2024 10:03 |
Last Modified: |
28 Mar 2024 10:03 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/194966 |
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