Notion Of Storytelling Research Articles

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT: AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT (2000) HOW DO ACTORS DEVIATE FROM THE THEATRICAL CONVENTIONS IN AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT?

The performance "And on the Thousandth Night" by Forced Entertainment is a captivating exploration of endurance, storytelling, and the transformative power of narratives. Premiered in 2000, this production is characterized by its ambitious scope: an uninterrupted, improvised six-day performance where six performers undertake the daunting task of narrating stories continuously for 144 hours. Central to the performance is the notion of storytelling as a fundamental human activity—a means of making sense of the world, connecting with others, and creating meaning amid chaos. The endurance aspect of the performance reflects a profound investigation into the limits of storytelling and human resilience. The production's title, "And on the Thousandth Night," suggests a cyclical, endless narrative journey—an invitation to dive deep into the vast possibilities of storytelling. Each performer takes on the role of a storyteller, weaving together diverse narratives, genres, and characters over the course of the performance. This experimental format challenges traditional notions of theatre, inviting audiences to reconsider the boundaries of performance art and the nature of spectatorship. The absence of a fixed script or narrative arc foregrounds spontaneity and improvisation, emphasizing the raw, unfiltered nature of live storytelling. Moreover, the performance underscores the communal aspect of storytelling, highlighting the symbiotic relationship between performers and audiences. As spectators witness the unfolding stories in real-time, they become active participants in the creative process, co-creating meaning through collective engagement. "And on the Thousandth Night" exemplifies Forced Entertainment's signature blend of innovation, risk-taking, and conceptual rigor. By pushing the boundaries of duration and improvisation, the production challenges conventional norms and offers a profound meditation on the transformative potential of narrative.

TIME, MYTH AND NARRATIVE IN BEAT FURRER'S NUUN

AbstractThe title of Beat Furrer's nuun, for two pianos and chamber orchestra (1996), invites two principal readings. As a pun on the German ‘nun’, meaning ‘now’, it invokes a presentist mode of musical thinking, whereby each moment is heard to exist in a continuous state of development. It also invokes myth, as suggested by Wolfgang Fuhrmann, in its palindromic reflection of the name of the Breton goddess Nu, who, in medieval mysticism, ‘had the power to let time stand still’. In this article, I use Byron Almén's 2017 theory of musical narrative as the basis for a narrative analysis of nuun, aiming to reconcile these allusions with the aesthetics and formal processes of the piece, as well as Furrer's documented preoccupation with notions of storytelling in music. In doing so, I expand upon the hermeneutic readings of the piece proposed thus far, establish connections with textural archetypes in Furrer's oeuvre, both pioneered by and preceding nuun, and consider lines of dialogue with broader discourse on time in contemporary music.

A Tale of Two Theories

A Tale of Two Theories

Storytelling for Promoting Social Cohesion in the Marginalized Communities: A Study of Chautari Nataks

The notion of storytelling in playback theatre (Chautari Natak) suggests a dialogue between performer and audience. This dialogue in the public sphere can evoke collective understanding on political and natural disaster victims, and cultivate grounds of negotiation for micro levels of misunderstanding in socio-cultural issues. One of the main objectives of the paper is to analyze methodological intervention employed by the Chautari Natak to initiate sharing/communication between ex-combatant and the local community. Based on field observation and interviews, I argue that the Chautari Natak, as methodological innovation for social dialogue, transforms personal stories into avenues for the socio-cultural empowerment of the participants and promotion of social cohesion. The Chautari Natak performance could be linked to a description of community performance as a way to overcome loneliness and reduce the distance between cultural groups, status groups, and constitute an experience of community for those participants. Marginalized audience or real people, who are focused by Chautari Natak, rarely get opportunities to tell real stories in society. Storytelling in a public forum is a breakthrough in communication among participants, healing of the storyteller, and it can be a general issue for the transformation of the political and socio-cultural understanding. For the theoretical analysis, I employed Van Gennep’s and Turner’s concepts of liminality for the stage of storytelling and performance among the audience. The act of telling a personal story can be analyzed through the lens of Habermas’ notion of communicative practice of everyday life.

Re-Embedding Sustainable Leadership Development: A Gaia Storytelling Approach

This paper presents a Gaia storytelling approach to sustainable leadership development. This approach is inspired from Arendt’s notions of storytelling, space of appearance and natality. Our purpose is to use her notion of storytelling to develop a sustainable leadership development approach that responds to two problems concerning leadership development. The first problem concerns a need to re-embed leadership development in social and material spaces. The second problem concerns a need to re-embed leadership development in what we, following Latour, call Gaia. Arendt’s notion of natality is an embedded part of storytelling, which implies that storytelling is the process by which people begin and intervene in situations and processes. Natality is however also linked to what Arendt’s calls the eternal recurrence of all species and life forms, and which she considers the highest principle of all being. Inspired by Barad, Haraway and Latour we reconceptualize eternal recurrence into the notion Gaia. Gaia is a metaphor for the living entangled relationships of human and non-human species, life-forms and in- organic matter that forms complex self-regulating processes that condition life. Gaia storytelling implies an attempt to restory our relations to Gaia and re-embed leadership development in the ecological, material and social practices and spaces. Following Gaia storytelling, we develop a grounded relational reflexive approach to leadership development, which is targeted towards the performative dimension of action and natality. We sketch two methods for this purpose: journeying through space and journeying across material spaces.

Storytelling, space and power: An Arendtian account of subjectivity in organizations

Drawing on Arendt’s work, this article develops a storytelling account of subjectivity and politics in organizations. Storytelling is understood as the process through which actors reconstruct their experiences and appear in a collective space. Storytelling is thus enacted within and from spaces and is a means for political action. Three theoretical consequences are drawn. First, storytelling implies the ever-present possibility of a ‘space of appearance’ in which the subject is an originator of action. Second, the notion of storytelling as a spatial practice implies focusing on how stories are shaped through interactions and collective engagements, or ‘emplacement’. Third, a material and embodied reconfiguration of Arendt’s notion of action shows how material relations offer important affordances to change organizations. Because storytelling is both a process of engaging with ourselves and the power relations that we are part of, Arendt’s notion of storytelling is helpful for understanding how and in what circumstances we can act politically in organizations. In particular, the article argues that Arendt’s account is useful for framing an interventionist third stream of critical management studies, or ‘critical performativity’.

Duelo y narración en Walter Benjamin: Una lectura desde el país de los desaparecidos

In “Excavation and Memory” Walter Benjamin approaches the subject of remembering from a specific metaphor: excavation. But far from being only a metaphoric activity, excavation is sometimes the literal action withewhich to find clues to solve contemporary mysteries. In Mexico, country where since 2007 there are more than thirty thousand lost people, men and women have become recently excavators who, through loose soil, search without rest for footprints or traces of their loved ones. What is to be done witheso much barbarity? Perhaps through the Benjamin’s notion of storytelling we could think of remembering in terms of unearthing as a possibility for mourning in the country of the lost ones.

Aestheticizing the City Through Storytelling and Walking

The main concern of this article is situated in the theatrical experience of the 1916 rebellion walking tour as a broader mode of aestheticizing performance, focusing on the ways it traces the process of the tour to ask what the appeal is for international tourists in experiencing often tragic historical events through the use of performative strategies, namely, acts of walking and storytelling. By employing Walter Benjamin’s notion of storytelling and Michel de Certeau’s approach to the walking, this article intends to explore how the 1916 walking tour as a cultural practice rearranges and recreates the Dublin landscape, and how these new meanings are constituted aesthetically beyond their entertainment value. Furthermore, by placing this tour as performative genre, this article investigates how this historic event is embodied by the guide, perceived and transformed by tour groups, thereby creating tourists’ kinesthetic empathy during the tour, by way of the guide’s storytelling with their walking. In doing so, this article will offer a broader context of staging this historical memory that commemorates past events by way of physical engagement with this tour.

Beyond Advertising Narratives: “Josefinas” and their storytelling products

In the last few years, advertising narratives have become increasingly important. Facing an environment of fierce competition and communication overload, brands needed to reinvent their communication strategies, and stories became protagonists, particularly in the digital environment. This article addresses a new way of applying storytelling in marketing, which is using it to extend products. In our theoretical framework, we review the general importance of storytelling as a communication tool and strategy, departing from the notion of storytelling as the essence of human communication (Fisher, 1987). As empirical work, we present the case study of Josefinas , a Portuguese luxury handmade shoe brand. For each new product, the brand presents a story that not only explains the inspiration for the product, but also communicates values, a lifestyle, emotions, and inspires. We studied a sample of communication pieces and applied a thematic matrix (Kuckartz, 2014), with coding categories inspired by storytelling models and also by brand equity (Aaker, 1991) and product extension (Kotler and Keller, 2012) models. In our findings, we stress the originality of the brand in going beyond advertising in its use of narratives, applying it to add layers of meaning to their products, which are reflected in the brand image, and even in its equity. Thus, we conclude by suggesting the concept of ‘product narratives’.

Afterword: The New-Old Media

Afterword: The New-Old Media

Role Of Participatory Gis In Creating Spatial Database For Slum Development- A Case Study Of Kalaburagi City

A Slum expansion due to urbanization presents significant challenges for human health and wellbeing. We outline here key dimensions of the consideration, pointing to areas where public participation can make a particularly strong contribution. We argue for enquiry that considers multifaceted progressions operating at various geographical scales, linking arguments about ‘global health’ with the more local and individual processes that contribute to health determinants. Recent years have observed a flourishing GIS application to indigenous geographical knowledge to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of public participation to Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offers an answer to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent since long time. Participatory mapping and transect walks were used to inform the research and intervention design and to begin building community relations in preparation for projects. Although support systems for slum development have now undergone research, but is not reflected in their practical application. A better understanding of the relationship between participation practices for slum development is needed in order to improve the role of the latter. We argue that communicative and analytic approaches to current scenarios should be pooled. The present paper observes the potential of the expanding the outreach of PGIS to augment the customary techniques to empower them with modern tools. The problem was examined in a practical scenario in which the techniques were practiced simultaneously. This work evaluates and explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge based approaches with some potential future technical and academic directions. The results show that new approaches not only differ from the involvement of traditional practices, but they also differ from each other on the basis of their type of participation. The results indicate that participatory GIS is an effective harmonizing means of public participation and augment the traditional unmediated techniques. We have developed a conceptual framework for physical characteristics and evaluation of knowledge with the role of public participation as central theme. Combined with the notion of storytelling, we are certain that this result in a perspective for PGIS has potential for future applications. The paper provides new wider approach and dimensions for future research. Furthermore, the method lays down the foundation for collaborative community research partnerships.

Knowledge in communicative planning practice: a different perspective for planning support systems

Although planning support systems (PSS) have now undergone more than two decades of research and development, this is not reflected in their practical application. In this paper we argue that one of the reasons for this is that too much emphasis is put on the instrument rather than the usage and planning context. A better understanding of the relationship between planning practice and PSS is needed in order to improve the role of the latter. We argue that communicative and analytic approaches to planning should be combined. A key to this is a more careful conceptualization of the concepts of knowledge and planning support. Therefore, we have developed a conceptual framework in which the characteristics and evaluation of knowledge and the role of planning support are central. Combined with the notion of storytelling, we believe that this results in a perspective for PSS that has potential for future applications. We conclude the paper with recommendations for future research.

Anchored in the story: The core of human understanding, branding, education, socialisation and the shaping of values

Storytelling or the narrative approach is increasingly becoming a core element in influence processes such as education, teaching, leadership, culture, history, marketing and its facets and a whole range of other functionalities across the multitudes of human activities. By nature human processes are a story told for a purpose; be it, as fun, socialisation, education, business, and so forth. Storytelling, be it narrated consciously or otherwise, tends to have a huge impact on society. It is the contention of this paper that the story is the ultimate in shaping minds and behaviour, and creating perceptions for the clientele or the stakeholders in any human engagement. While some writers might question the authenticity of using the storytelling approach on the pretext that it is not scientific they cannot take away the influence that the story has in shaping the thought process. In any case the human heritage is a story that transcends through generations: evolution, creation, discoveries of places, scientific discoveries or inventions, obituaries, product profiles, organisational profiles, advertisements, etc. Anything that is current, past or future that is narrated encapsulates a story be it past, present or future and each has its own purpose. Marketing has taken on board this notion in most of its facets in communications and brand development though this element does not come out strongly in the marketing literature. A quick check on the marketing literature would not present the notion of storytelling or the narrative as a topic in marketing books other than in the form of case studies. Ultimately the paper emphasises the notion that every influence process involving people is down to a story and no one can deny that socialisation is a story of perpetuating humanity and its facets. Denning (2007a) suggests that there are eight types of stories that serve a range of business related purposes and other facets of life or man's desire to understand or explain the notion of the earth and its dynamics. Boje (2008) articulates how a story defines people, places, products, etc, pointing out that every entity is known by its story in a given context. In view of the pervasive nature of the story it would be appropriate to argue that the story reminds of the past, shapes the present and inspire for the future; hence the story is the life that was, is and will be.

Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy

This article will discuss the way children across three schools in Bristol, United Kingdom have been engaged in a unique short film experiment. The video project they were involved with aimed to inspire the young participants to actively consider notions of storytelling, spoken language and narrative structure. The article challenges narrative conventions and the way audiences read film; asking how much audiences make their own connections of received messages to create their own narrative structures, and how much control producers have over this process. It goes on to argue the importance of Community Media educational activity in research culture and also highlight the potential of media literacy activity as being a conduit in schools to enhancing learning in non-arts subjects.

The Challenge of Inference in Interinstitutional Research on Mass Communication

Interinstitutional research in mass communication carries with it a chain of complex, interrelated problems regarding tactics, sampling, data reliability, and notions of causality. This article confronts a number of these difficulties and suggests ways to deal with them. In addition, it draws on notions of storytelling and cognitive aesthetics to broaden the criteria for judging research. The aim is to encourage scholarship that is ambitious in thought and act and at the same time self-reflective and open about the most daunting dilemmas that confront researchers in this important research area.