Towards a Critical Puppetry: Racialisation and Material Performance in the Twenty-First Century

走向批判性的木偶：二十一世纪的种族化和物质表现

基本信息

批准号：
2389505
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2389505
关键词：
Towards Critical Puppetry Racialisation Material

项目摘要

What can puppetry, a process by which objects are humanised, teach us about racialisation, a process by which humans are objectified?As an embodied practice, puppetry disrupts binary distinctions between object and subject, inanimate and animate, and nonhuman and human. As a result, it offers the possibility to productively destabilise the dominant ontologies and biopolitical constructions which underpin the subjugation of racialised bodies. Conversely, because its aesthetic vocabularies are rooted in exaggeration, and because it uses objects to represent humans, puppetry simultaneously offers unique possibilities for the reproduction and reinscription of racial stereotypes and hegemonic racial ideologies. I suggest that puppetry offers artists a uniquely powerful and dangerous location from which to speak about identity, and that a critical appraisal of these possibilities and dangers is long overdue. This project brings together these concerns through exploration of contemporary puppetry and material performance and my own professional practice as a puppeteer and theatre-maker. In doing so, I propose a framework for Critical Puppetry, wherein the form and mechanics of puppetry are used to critique and resist politically constructed identities and hierarchies of value, facilitating an embodied engagement with broader questions around material ontologies, subjecthood and animacy.

木偶可以是人性化的木偶，教会我们种族化的过程，人类被客观化的过程？作为一种体现的实践，木偶会破坏对象与主体，无生命和动画之间的二进制区别，以及非人类和人类。结果，它提供了有效地破坏主导种族化体征服的主导本体和生物政治结构的可能性。相反，由于其美学词汇源于夸张，并且由于它使用对象代表人类，所以木偶同时为种族刻板印象和霸权种族意识形态的复制和重新铭文提供了独特的可能性。我建议木偶为艺术家提供一个独特而危险的位置，可以谈论身份，并且对这些可能性和危险的批判性评估早就应该了。该项目通过探索当代木偶和物质表现以及我自己作为木偶和戏剧制造商的专业实践来汇总这些担忧。为此，我提出了一个关键木偶的框架，其中木偶的形式和机制被用来批评和抵制政治上建造的身份和价值的层次结构，从而促进了有关物质本体，主题，主题和动画的更广泛问题的体现。