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Résumé

Titre de la conférence

Ecosystems of Theater & Performance

Lieu & dates

Sitges (Espagne), 28 octobre - 02 novembre 2024

Réseau scientifique international

Goals of EASTAP :

Bring together in Europe scholars, artists, performance makers and stakeholders in order to encourage and promote multiple methods and approaches in the domain of theatre and performance, including all live performance (theatre, dance, opera, puppetry, circus, performance).

Ecosystems of Theater and Performance (EASTAP Conférence 2024) I Sitges (Espagne)

EASTAP Annual Conference 2024 – Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance

We are delighted to announce EASTAP’s 2024 Annual Conference, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona in Sitges, Spain. The conference is entitled “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into different aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance. We aim to explore the terminological shift from ‘ecology’ to ‘ecosystems’ within the realm of theatre and performance. “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance” invites proposals that explore the scientific-environmental, figurative, and economical dimensions of dynamic artistic systems.
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Trans-figurations.org : A project and a digital platform to design, experiment and share performative ‘scores’ for collaborative and creative urban regeneration processes

I would like to share an ongoing collaborative experimentation within the EASTAP network to open up new potential collaborations. In the quest of ‘Performative Urbanism’ (Szuter 2023), we believe performativity can unfold new practices and processes for an eco-social design (Duhem, Rabin 2018). Using performance based protocols in early stages of an architectural or urban regeneration project can help to reveal hidden affordances (Gibson, 1979), enabling us to sketch out conceptual leads for a better appropriation and transformation of the city. It encourages an embodied approach to increase both environmental awareness and social inclusivity. The experimental project, developped with the Choreography+Urbanism international group, lies to become a creative protocol factory, transmitted through performative ‘scores’ for urban regeneration processes. The use of performative ‘scores’ in relation to city making originate from the 1960s, with the collaboration of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) and choreographer Anna Halprin (1920-2021). In 2023, I conducted a three-months research in California to investigate their collaboration, focusing on the elaboration of their ‘RSVP Cycles’ (Halprin, 1970) throught two specific moments: Experiments in Environments and Taking Part Process. I’m currently deepening their collaboration as an heritage to be shared, extended and translated into contemporary issues. Throught Trans-figurations.org, we’re engaged in social and artistic alternatives to generate possibilities of emergence for urban transformation orders and processes, in gradual, inclusive and creative ways ; to experiment with performative tools, site-specific actions for a social empowerment towards the regeneration of inhabited milieus. The digital platform (currently under construction) will become an interactive and collaborative map of experimental practices, sharing protocols and reflecting on the unfolding processes of urban regeneration that would occur from it : an open source library for performative ‘scores’ dedicated to freed citizen’s creativity in urban environments.

Keywords : Performative Urbanism ; site-specific interventions ; eco-social design ; Anna &
Lawrence Halprin ; Urban regeneration processes ; environmental awareness.