Implication of Solidarity and Locality in Practice Community - Focused on Community Arts

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Su-Bin Kwon
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen S. Koster ◽  
Daphne Philbert ◽  
Nina A. Winters ◽  
Marcel L. Bouvy

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-657
Author(s):  
Angela M. Labrador

The inaugural event for the newly established University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, entitled “Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century,” was held in November 2009 at three locations in the northeastern United States. Workshop attendees participated in several organized sessions, day trips, informal discussions, and five plenary sessions with accompanying working sessions focused on four themes in international heritage practice: community; faith; diaspora; and burial, ancestors, and human Remains. The event was co-organized by two members of the UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, Director Elizabeth Chilton and Coordinator of Projects and Policy Initiatives Neil Silberman, whose main goal was to establish a permanent working group of international representatives engaging with issues of heritage in conflict charged with setting research and policy agendas for the field.


Author(s):  
Shane Pike ◽  
Sasha Mackay ◽  
Michael Whelan ◽  
Bree Hadley ◽  
Kathryn Kelly

In Australia a vibrant tradition of participatory and often politically motivated performance work developed under the term ‘community arts and cultural development’ across the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. In this body of practice, considerations of ethics are articulated through process, practices and representation rather than content. Though effective, community arts as it developed in Australia is often time, resource and emotionally intensive for artists, community participants and audiences. In recent years, retraction of funding, as well as shifts in practice towards live art, performance art and relational aesthetics have reduced the resources available for these once prominent practices. Practitioners are confronting challenges and needing to develop new ways of working in an operating environment where long-term consultation is not necessarily possible or preferred by stakeholders. In this article, we reflect on the current state of play for practitioners seeking to develop ethical dramaturgy in performance works that collaborate with communities to tell life stories or represent participants’ lived experiences in Australia. Through examples from our own practice, as practice-led researchers, we consider how work in this sector is under strain and experiencing scarcity, precarity and an increasing lack of access to institutional resources that have historically enabled ethically rigorous dramaturgical practices. We aim, through this process, to rediscover and rearticulate an ethical dramaturgy for deployment in the Australian environment as it exists today.


2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 797-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Noxolo

This paper reflects on and challenges existing paradigms around movement and mobilisation in and with the city. This focus is provoked by a community arts project called ‘Flat Out’, in which the researcher collaborated with the Drum Intercultural Arts Centre and Birmingham Royal Ballet, on a dance project with members of the community in the Lozells and Newtown areas of the city. The paper pushes for more deeply embodied and more highly politicised versions of place ballet and urban vortex, introducing a concept of choreography that comes from dance practice, and working through decolonial and postcolonial theories. A brief auto-ethnography of the author’s Birmingham childhood illustrates that movement repertoires are diverse, historically and spatially conditioned, and, in the case of Birmingham, located within an ongoing ‘decolonial churn’.


2013 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Swindells ◽  
Rebecca Lawthom ◽  
Kevin Rowley ◽  
Asiya Siddiquee ◽  
Amanda Kilroy ◽  
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