Research Catalogue

An overview of Elisabeth Belgrano's artistic / performance / research and teaching in higher arts education 2004-ongoing

In this work, I want to show some excerpts from my grandmother's patriarchal resistance. The narrative and the photographs will be at the center. They will clarify Esters Lindberg's attempt to negotiate and renegotiate her position within the usual norm. The narratives and photographs will hopefully give an expanded understanding of what it could be like to live as a woman with a desire for freedom in Sweden during the early 20th century.

This is the website and the open archive of the four-year research project HOW TO DO THINGS WITH PERFORMANCE? funded by the Finnish Academy. Nämä ovat nelivuotisen Suomen Akatemian rahoittaman tutkimushankkeen MITEN TEHDÄ ASIOITA ESITYKSELLÄ? verkkosivut ja avoin arkisto.

Le dessein intelligent est le mot à la mode des créationnistes des années 2000 qui concerne l’interprétation idéologique de la machine et des données. Ici, la question est celle des ressemblances religieuses prescrites, pour lesquelles le débat sur le dessein intelligent emprunte aux données non corporelles pour projeter des incorporations fictives à l’information, en présumant des mentales de similitude, sinon d’exactitude, qui pourraient donner lieu à une création religieuse prescrite.

Cet article s’appuie sur une approche psychanalytique et culturelle des idéologies et de l’économie-politique dans les constructions de vérité et les récits autour des lieux et des événements concernant les identités ethniques, religieuses et nationales, et propose une opinion interdisciplinaire sur les récits de vérité des psycho-réalités culturelles formées autour des parcs, des lieux monumentaux et des génocides en Turquie. Cette opinion porte sur le complexe, le concours du profane et du sacré, pour lequel l’article présente une interprétation détaillée du matériel/mondain et du religieux/au-delà. Les symptômes dans les lieux monumentaux en Turquie, parc culturel à Izmir et Parc Gezi et Sainte-Sophie à Istanbul, révèlent les mythes inhabituels encodés dans ces lieux, génocides, complexes et leurs liens avec les textes culturels d’aujourd’hui. Le réseau de la réalité informe les symptômes conscients et inconscients autour des parcs, des musées, des places ou des lieux monumentaux en Turquie et au-delà.

This research project explores how theatre can contribute to democratic engagement. The starting point was artistic probes investigating aspects of democracy: participation, deliberation and inclusion. The probes resulted in three productions presented at theatre institutions in Sweden. In Skapa Demokrati (Creating Democracy), participation was promoted by encouraging the audience members to create a democracy together. The performance thus allowed participants to experience a democratic process by actively engaging in the making of a constitution. In Öva Demokrati (Practicing Democracy), deliberation was in focus. The performance allowed the audience to deliberate on suggestions for strengthening Swedish democracy. Through methods inspired by political science, the audience was invited to speak and listen to arguments for the different proposals. In the performance, they were also presented with a variety of ways of voting to illustrate how different electoral systems can encourage engagement and give minorities a chance to be heard. In Monument, different strategies were used to promote inclusion. The project started with the idea that monuments say something about society. The monuments were used as vehicles to include voices from the residents of Helsingborg. The artwork presented these different experiences through a multi-perspective script. Other outreach activities also helped enable inclusion. Narrative analysis for theatre was used to reflect on these probes, allowing for a deeper understanding of how performances were conceptualised and structured, and how they made meaning for the audience. Lastly, the performance Ibsendekonstruktion II: Brand was written and staged to reflect on how the research has changed the artistic practice. The research has resulted in strategies for inclusion and a novel theatre format, the conversational theatre, which encourages participation and deliberation. These outcomes provide the theatre with methods to be in dialogue with society.