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Urban Rituals, Performances, Street Theatre, Music

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Leader

Slavica Janeshlieva

Description

This WG is dedicated to performative art forms and gatherings (theatre, spoken word, collective artistic performance, urban festivals, urban gatherings, music) that revive, create and promote practices of cultural and artistic resource sharing in public space. These creative ways of acting publicly and collectively stimulate heritage transmission and heritage revitalisation through community building practices in an urban context. Often based on historic celebrations and performance, they also promote a ‘slow’ mobility in the city that counteracts the performance optimization, characteristic of our contemporary urban rhythm. In a time in which preservation and sharing of intangible heritage (oral histories, transmission of local histories etc.) is extremely acute and funds for heritage revitalisation are scarce worldwide, this WG studies urban practices of working with human resources that empower and potentiate the community. Reconnection to local narratives, histories and their re-enacting out in public space, revitalisation, reinvention and creation of existing urban rituals can generate new ways to circulate and make use of common resources (in terms of space, forces, time).

In this WG, we will also draw inspiration and stimulate the contact to non-Western and non-European urban practices, for example cases in which music functions as a way to catalyse creative power and rethink the city for a more sustainable and circular use of its resources. By including a strong collective and participatory dimension (for example in urban processions and festivities in various South American cultures) aesthetic involvement is conjugated with the transformative power of social engagement.

Through the use of vernacular language forms – including pop culture, dance, music, mass events, and activism and moments of collective encounter – the way in which the city functions can be temporarily reworked.

This WG also explores how creative practices can work without instrumentalising the social conditions found in the field and finally feeding back the Euro-dominated cultural market system.

About Theoretical Questions

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Research

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Archives

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Exhibitions & Screenings

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Interviews

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Conferences

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu

About Publications

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'Et in Arcadia …' artistic residency and exhibition of Vincent Chevillon at the Mucem, Marseille

Marta Jecu