Event overview
'a collaboration on and off stage between theatre and anthropology' with Greg Pierotti (University of Arizona) and Cristiana Giordano (University of California, Davis)
In this talk, we describe a cross pollination between research and narrative practices in theatre and anthropology. Blending theatrical techniques, anthropological fieldwork methods, and affect theory, we have developed a practice called Affect Theater. For both theatre makers working with the “real” and ethnographers, this devising and research methodology allows an engagement with non-theatrical material (interviews, archival documents, medical and legal reports, etc.) to both construct and de-construct narrative for the stage. We draw from our work on Un-stories and B-More, two performances respectively dealing with issues of migration and borders in Europe, and police violence and race in the US. In a laboratory format, Affect Theatre troubles the truth claims and privileged theoretical positions that often challenge playwrights and social scientists working with the empirical.
This talk is sponsored by the Migration Research Network and The Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Mar 2019 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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