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TAGUNG: WRITING THEATER / 5.-7. Juli 2023

QUALITATIVE METHODS, SITUATED KNOWLEDGE & THE MAKING OF PERFORMACE

Studiobühne der Theaterwissenschaft, Neuturmstraße 5, 80331 München / 5. bis 7. Juli 2023 / Organisiert von Ulf Otto, Luise Barsch, Anna Raisich

Achtung: Bitte beachten Sie, dass das Programm im Flyer für Donnerstag, 5. Juli, nicht mehr aktuell ist. Das aktuelle Programm wie folgt:

Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2023

13.30-14.45 KEYNOTE I
Translating Practice to Research. Methodological Aspects of Praxeological Performance Research

Gabriele Klein, Hamburg University, DE/University of Amsterdam, NL

15.00–16.30 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (I)
Positioning, Orientation, Relationalization. Doing Research on Disability Performance as a Multimodal Process

Elena Backhausen, Mirjam Kreuser and Benjamin Wihstutz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

17.00–18.15 KEYNOTE II
The Power of Fragility: A Pragmatist Approach to Performance

Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK

Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2023

09.45–11.15 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (II)
The Body as Research Instrument? – Methodological Reflections and Empirical Insights from an Ethnographic Theater Study

Hanna Voss, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

Who Am I? And If So, How Many, Where, and Why? – Autoethnographic Reflections on Field Research in Theatrical Contexts

Tamara Quick, University of Bayreuth, DE

11.30–13.00 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (I)
Autoethnographic Process: Reflecting on William Forsythe’s Duo

Elizabeth Waterhouse, University of Bern, CH

Digital Ethnography in the Field – Documenting and Researching Choreographic Process

David Rittershaus, University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Motion Bank), DE

15.00–15.45 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (II)
Theater in the Making, Subjects in Becoming: Writing on Processes of Production and Arts Education from Within

Benjamin Hoesch, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, DE

16.15–17.45 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (I)
Ethnography and/or Performance Analysis for Researching Rehearsals

Lisa Großmann, Bern Academy of the Arts, CH

In the eye of the Protest. Perspectives and Challenges of Performance Analysis and/as Ethnographic Research

Sebastian Sommer, Freie Universität Berlin, DE

18.00–19.30 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (II)
Staging Differences. Mis-en-scene and Interference of Human Categorisation in Contemporary German-speaking Postdramatic Theater

Friedemann Kreuder and Stefanie Husel, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

Freitag, 7. Juli 2023

09.30–10.45 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (I)
“The Art of Crafts: A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus” – Project Presentation

Luise Barsch, Ulf Otto and Anna Raisich, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, DE

11.15–12.30 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (II)
Stage Lighting and Industrial Boredom

Martin Young, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Backstage Cartographies: Labor as Community in Midtown Manhattan

Christin Essin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, US

 

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Die Konferenz ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts Die Kunst der Gewerke. Eine Praxeographie des Theaterapparats gefördert von der

Writing Theater – qualitative methods, situated knowledge, and the making of performance

München, 5.-7. Juli, 2023

Tagung organisiert von  Ulf Otto, Anna Raisich, Luise Barsch

The production of performance has gained renewed attention in recent years. Artistic processes in theaters have come into focus, as well as their social foundations, institutional frameworks and material entanglements.
This has led to an increased adaptation of methodologies from the social sciences. In particular, qualitative methods, most prominently praxeological and ethnographical approaches, have opened up new ways of engaging with theater.
But the expansion of the methodological toolbox is not just that. It reinvents epistemological relations and has lasting repercussions for the subjects and objects of research. While traditionally theater scholars found themselves within the dispositive of theater, as spectators confronting the performance, the move backstage and elsewhere equates to a loss of this privileged position and inevitably leads to an epistemological decentering of performance.
And this in turn provokes a closer look at the practices of research: techniques of description (protocols) and inscription (photographs, recordings) come to the fore, as do the diverse social and material agents that are mobilized to turn fleeting observations into reliably defined and delimited subjects of knowledge.
Accordingly, the aim of the conference is on the one hand, to discuss ethnographical strategies in the domain of theater studies, including their epistemological repercussions – and on the other hand, to take a look back at established writing strategies, taking inspiration from the rich body of critical self-reflection in ethnography: What happens to theater when scholars move backstage, and what can we learn from there about our scholarly selves?

Wir freuen uns über Beiträge von Wissenschaftlern aller Karrierestufen – sowohl Vorträge von etwa 20 Minuten Länge als auch Poster-Präsentationen von Projekten im Frühstadium mit einem Zeitrahmen von 10 Minuten sind erwünscht. Wir sind bestrebt, einen Raum für produktiven Austausch, eingehende Diskussionen und gemeinsame Perspektiven zu schaffen.

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Deadline für die Abstracts: 15.12.2022
Zusage erhalten Sie bis: 15.1.2023
Kontakt: gewerke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

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Die Konferenz ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts Die Kunst der Gewerke. Eine Praxeographie des Theaterapparats gefördert von der