Theatre and Performance Studies News
Emine Fişek joins the department as an IAS Visiting Fellow
Emine Fişek joins the department as an IAS Visiting Fellow
Fişek’s current research project asks: what is the relationship between theatre and memory in contemporary Turkey? Both domains have undergone significant shifts in the twenty-first century. In a national context historically dominated by centrally funded state and municipal theatre institutions, recent years have witnessed the proliferation of “alternative theatres”: small, independent ventures that seek new forms of theatrical expression and explore thorny issues of national memory and cultural identity. Meanwhile, political developments in the new millennium have contested the foundations of Turkey’s modernization project, producing new readings of the country’s past. In her research, Fişek asks how alternative theatre has responded to this shifting terrain through a focus on theatre and gentrification, examining how artists depict the relationship between urban history and public memory, and how they negotiate their own involvement in processes of migration and urban transformation.
Professor Nadine Holdsworth awarded £9000 from the University's HEIF Impact Fund to support a project with the National Maritime Museum
Congratulations to Professor Nadine Holdsworth who has been awarded £9000 from the University's HEIF Impact Fund to support a project with the National Maritime Museum called 'Maritime Creativity: From Archive to Exhibition'.
PhD researcher Carmen Wong receives funding to develop and document performances in Wong's 'Eating into Elsewhere' practice-research
Congratulations to PaR PhD Carmen Wong and her collaborators who have received funding from both the Public Engagement Fund and the Connecting Cultures GRP to develop and document the diptych of Wong's performances: “Breakfast Elsewhere” and “Unmade, Untitled”. Carmen's social practice work explores how belonging in an age of globalized migration might be affectively embodied and performed through translative, and convivial food-making practices. A set of performances, in preparation for Coventry City of Culture 2021, will be staged next year. Wong will work with Coventry community organizers who will host the performances in their home kitchens, inviting audience participants from diverse backgrounds to dialogue about food, place, memory, and migration.