Performance Art Research Articles

NOWOCZESNE TECHNOLOGIE PROJEKCYJNE W ZABYTKOWYCH SALACH TEATRALNYCH KRAKOWA – SZANSY I ZAGROŻENIA

Along with the development of multimedia and their increasing role in producing culture, the language of performative arts have change significantly over the past few decades. However, as in the case of Krakow, Poland, many theatre companies are seated for decades in the same historic buildings, being important landmarks and protected architectural monuments. The paper sheds some light on opportunities and risks of introducing modern projection technologies into historic building. Results of reserch can be considered inspirational for artist and technicians as well as conservators and architects involved in the renovation and conservation of historic theatre halls.

Multi Task Learning Based Shallow Parsing for Indian Languages

Shallow Parsing is an important step for many Natural Language Processing tasks. Although shallow parsing has a rich history for resource rich languages, it is not the case for most Indian languages. Shallow Parsing consists of POS Tagging and Chunking. Our study focuses on developing shallow parsers for Indian languages. As part of shallow parsing we included morph analysis as well. For the study, we first consolidated available shallow parsing corpora for 7 Indian Languages (Hindi, Kannada, Bangla, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu) for which treebanks are publicly available. We then trained models to achieve state of the art performance for shallow parsing in these languages for multiple domains. Since analyzing the performance of model predictions at sentence level is more realistic, we report the performance of these shallow parsers not only at the token level, but also at the sentence level. We also present machine learning techniques for multitask shallow parsing. Our experiments show that fine-tuned contextual embedding with multi-task learning improves the performance of multiple as well as individual shallow parsing tasks across different domains. We show the transfer learning capability of these models by creating shallow parsers (only with POS and Chunk) for Gujarati, Odia, and Punjabi for which no treebanks are available. As a part of this work, we will be releasing the Indian Languages Shallow Linguistic (ILSL) benchmarks for 10 Indian languages including both the major language families Indo-Aryan and Dravidian as common building blocks that can be used to evaluate and understand various linguistic phenomena found in Indian languages and how well newer approaches can tackle them.

Enabling STE(A)M in Sustainability Education Through Dialogic/Dialectic Reconciliation

In the context of a need for finding and enabling alternatives to unequal and extractivist perspectives on development, growth, and human well-being, this positioning paper explores possibilities for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education with an education for sustainable development focus that counters disciplinary alienations particularly between the arts and the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. The paper argues that unnecessary alienations between cultural-emblematic and mathematical-logical epistemes, especially those linked to narrow interpretations and restricted developments in dialogism and dialectics, respectively, are influenced by restricted understandings of epistemological, ontological, and praxiological philosophical drivers in meaning making and responsive action. In response, the paper develops a series of philosophical principles that, it argues, could usefully underpin STEAM education practices. These are a) iterations of epistemological expansion and contraction (in response to monologic meaning making), b) an expansive and deepening ontology (in response to ontological collapse in describing the world), c) critical and judgmental rationality (finding a middle ground between radical relativism and dogma), and d) concrete utopianism (in response to idealism and additive holisticism). The emergence of the four philosophical principles is developed through illustrative examples of a broad range of arts (fine art, performance art, photography, film, poetry, prose, and music).

CoMadOut—a robust outlier detection algorithm based on CoMAD

Unsupervised learning methods are well established in the area of anomaly detection and achieve state of the art performances on outlier datasets. Outliers play a significant role, since they bear the potential to distort the predictions of a machine learning algorithm on a given dataset. Especially among PCA-based methods, outliers have an additional destructive potential regarding the result: they may not only distort the orientation and translation of the principal components, they also make it more complicated to detect outliers. To address this problem, we propose the robust outlier detection algorithm CoMadOut, which satisfies two required properties: (1) being robust towards outliers and (2) detecting them. Our CoMadOut outlier detection variants using comedian PCA define, dependent on its variant, an inlier region with a robust noise margin by measures of in-distribution (variant CMO) and optimized scores by measures of out-of-distribution (variants CMO*), e.g. kurtosis-weighting by CMO+k. These measures allow distribution based outlier scoring for each principal component, and thus, an appropriate alignment of the degree of outlierness between normal and abnormal instances. Experiments comparing CoMadOut with traditional, deep and other comparable robust outlier detection methods showed that the performance of the introduced CoMadOut approach is competitive to well established methods related to average precision (AP), area under the precision recall curve (AUPRC) and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve. In summary our approach can be seen as a robust alternative for outlier detection tasks.

‘Accounting for the Music’. Institutional logics in the Regio Teatro Carolino of Palermo at the beginning of the nineteenth century

ABSTRACT We analyse the foundation and organisation of the Regio Teatro Carolino (RTC) in Palermo in the mid-eighteenth century, and its development at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In particular, we examine the accounting system to determine how it was influenced by competing and often conflicting institutional logics. The RTC originated from a private initiative of the Palermo nobility, but soon had to resort to public funding to maintain its artistic performances. Following this process, the Bourbon monarchy implemented control over the RTC and more generally, over all theatrical activities. The research emphasises the different institutional logics that shaped the RTC's management system, highlighting the hybrid characteristics of this institution.

Research on the Integration of Guzheng Performance and Music Aesthetic Principles

The purpose of this study is to explore the integration of guzheng performance and music aesthetics, and to reveal the unique status and value of guzheng art in modern music aesthetics. Through the method of literature analysis and theoretical discussion, this study first sorted out the historical development of guzheng performing art, and analyzed its aesthetic characteristics and evolution process in different historical periods. Then, the research deeply discusses the basic principles of music aesthetics, including formal beauty, emotional expression, cultural connotation and so on, combined with the specific practice of guzheng performance, analyzes its embodiment and application in music aesthetics. In the process of research, through the aesthetic analysis of the classical works of guzheng, it reveals the unique expression of guzheng music in the aspects of sound beauty, structural beauty and emotional beauty, and discusses how these aesthetic characteristics can be conveyed and sublimated through the performance art. The results show that the performance of guzheng is the display of musical skills, and the concrete practice and embodiment of the principles of musical aesthetics. Through its unique timbre, playing techniques and cultural connotation, guzheng music shows rich aesthetic value and can occupy an important position in the modern music aesthetic system. The research also points out that the aesthetic value of the performance art of guzheng lies in the inheritance of its traditional culture, and in its innovative application in modern music creation and performance. Through the integration of guzheng performance and music aesthetic principles, this study provides a new perspective and method for the theoretical research of guzheng art, and also provides theoretical support for the development and innovation of guzheng performing art.

« Captiver la spécificité du langage du spectacle. » Tomasz Kaczmarek et Anna Jarosz : il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polacco del teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione

The article discusses the main premises of Tomasz Kaczmarek’s and Anna Jarosz’s lexicon: Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polaccodel teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of the language of artistic performances, like theatre, cinema, radio, television. The authors rely on the concept of language of the artistic performance as a field at the crossroads of several codes (verbal, visual, sound, gestural) interacting on stage. This interdisciplinary publication has an encyclopedic value, but also synthesizes theoretical and historical knowledge in the above-mentioned scope.

TRADISI BOBOK BUMBUNG SEBAGAI UPAYA MEMBANGUN KARAKTER SISWA BERPRINSIP PANCASILA

Technological disruption needs to be accompanied by character formation based on Pancasila principles so that the younger generation is able to protect themselves from the negative impacts it causes. One of the efforts is through local wisdom, as is done by the Pesanggrahan village community with the bobok bumbung tradition. This research aims to determine the procession and efforts to build a character with Pancasila principles through the bobok bumbung tradition. Researchers used qualitative descriptive methods. The techniques and instruments in this research are observation analysis, interview guidelines, and documentation in the form of photos. The informants for the interviews selected in this research were village officials, village elders, and students of SMP Negeri 3 Kroya who follow this tradition. The validation used in this research is the triangulation technique. The results of this research show that the traditional Bobok Tubung procession is carried out with traditional arts performances and competitions. Character formation based on creative character values, caring for nature, and a clean lifestyle, is realized through art performances, coloring competitions, and fashion shows. Responsible character, love for the homeland, togetherness, discipline, agility, and resilience through traditional arts. The formation of caring, cooperative, and patriotic characters is realized through the puppet show Pandawa Syukur. There is a need to preserve and develop this tradition. Further research needs to be conducted, so that we can find out the extent of the success of character formation with Pancasila principles through the bobok bumbung tradition.

Cultural Tourism at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium

Cultural tourism needs to be preserved as it can be a forum for future generations to continue to learn about local traditions and cultures amid rapid technological advances. Researchers use this title to identify the potential of cultural tourism at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium (SUGBK). SUGBK was chosen as a locus because it is an important cultural landmark in Jakarta with various art and cultural activities. This research uses qualitative methods, with a qualitatively descriptive approach. Data collection is done through field surveys, interviews and literature studies. The need of this research is to explore the potential and impact of SUGBK cultural tourism on social, economic and cultural aspects. Socially, the stadium is a means of cross-cultural interaction and enriches people's insights. Economically, tourism creates business opportunities such as street sellers and souvenir sellers around the stadium. Meanwhile, from a cultural point of view, the various traditional art performances held at the stadium helped preserve the ancestral heritage.

Performance, Art, Institutions and Interdisciplinarity

How have funding, art education, and politics affected the development of performance and interdisciplinary art? In England in particular, performance as an experimental and radical art practice developed largely from underground activities, political action and a range of art forms. Funding bodies, colleges and art institutions eventually accommodated, albeit to a limited extent, this activity. As financial circumstances were sometimes difficult, artists often provided their own support structures and organisations. Some of these became established as they became successful. Performance art split from the theatrical and became defined as live art. In more recent times, conditions shifted again, and critical, experimental, or avant-garde theatre, film, music, etc., found refuge within contemporary art. Performance however, became increasingly confined and restricted by: the regulatory and academic requirements within universities; the need for evidence for some form of public or social purpose by funding bodies; and the increasingly hostile social and political circumstances. This research draws partly from personal experience and reflects on cultural conditions since the 1970s.

Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020

Humour is a part of contemporary mediated political struggles. At times, humour itself becomes politicised, turning into public controversies or humour scandals. This study explores how humour scandals have become intertwined with the Finnish political public sphere during the last three decades. Quantitative mapping, based on journalistic articles retrieved from two nationwide media, reveals that between 1990 and 2020, 26 national humour scandals in Finland were reported in the national public sphere for at least five days. The number of scandals increased exponentially, from just two such scandals in the 1990s to 15 in the 2010s. Our qualitative analysis of three humour scandals from different decades demonstrates how humour controversies relate to the changes in political and media environments and moral order. While in the 1990s and early 2000s humour scandals often dealt with clashes between popular TV satires and leading politicians, from the 2010s onwards the topics of humour scandals diversified, including issues related to political campaigning, artistic performances, and racism.

'Neem mijn ei, eet ervan en vergeet mij niet'

This article analyzes Christian liturgical elements in the performance Herinner ons [Remember us] as a case study to illustrate the relevance of interperformativity and intertextuality in contemporary climate performance art. The theatrical farewell ceremony, staged by Gouden Haas in 2023, invites the audience to become part of an inclusive ecological community. This invitation incorporates various Christian liturgical elements adapted for the occasion, capitalizing on the ritual repertoire of existing (religious) traditions modified to address the current theme of the climate crisis. Using Herinner ons as a case study, this article argues that intertextuality and interperformativity are relevant in the process of meaning-making prompted by the current climate crisis. In this process, existing liturgical and ritual practices undergo transformation, acquiring new forms and meanings in response to the challenges posed by the climate crisis.

Playback Theatre applications: A systematic review of literature

Playback Theatre (PT) was created as an improvised form of theatre based on the sharing of personal narratives by members of an audience that, in turn, are reciprocated by playback actresses and actors (“playbackers”) in the form of theatre-like artistic performances. From the beginning, its characteristics as a group process and therapeutic potential have been discussed. As this increasingly more common approach to storytelling most often seeks to stimulate individual and/or communal emotional growth/healing, the literature on it is also increasing. However, a significant portion of said literature has been focused on anecdotal type of reporting. Given the latter, we put together a systematic review of the literature on PT, geared towards identifying the literature sources that report evaluations, either qualitative or quantitative, of PT applications. Hence, our aim was to produce a comprehensive summary of the effects that have been reported in evaluation-centered studies of PT applications of all scopes. We searched four major electronic databases (PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus) for PT interventions between 1990 and June 2023. The quality of the studies gathered was evaluated by considering both the existence or absence of a control group and the reliability of the evaluation strategies employed, thus controlling for the risk of bias, consistent with the PRISMA protocol (Liberati et al. (2009)). The database search successfully identified 79 peer-reviewed articles on the subject of PT. Of these, 18 were English-written articles that reported on the use of evaluative measures concerning PT programs. The populations that benefited from these programs included children, adults, and older adults. Additionally, these articles included the application of PT in different contexts, from improving language skills to the promotion of mental health among individuals and/or communities. The results gathered lend support to the successful use of PT in enhancing cognitive, social, and emotional skills. Recommendations to increase and improve the reporting of PT effects are discussed.

The Influence Of Dangdut Koplo Deny Caknan Performance Art On Adolescent Cultural Awareness

Dangdut koplo is a genre of dangdut music that is popular in Indonesia, especially among teenagers. This research aims to determine the influence of Deny Caknan's dangdut koplo performance art on the cultural awareness of teenagers with a correlation study of Deny Caknan's band song entitled Ambyar. Researchers applied quantitative methods in this research. Researchers apply data collection techniques from two aspects, namely method and source. Researchers will analyze the data using correlation analysis and linear regression analysis in this research. The research results show that performing arts has a significant effect on the dependent variable, namely Cultural Awareness. Based on the R-square test hypothesis testing criteria, it can be concluded that the magnitude of 0.600 indicates that the proportion of influence of the Performing Arts variable on the Cultural Awareness variable is 60%. This means that performing arts have a huge influence on cultural awareness. It is proven that every time Deny Caknan's performing arts is held, it is packed with visitors, the majority of whom are young people.

Trolling as a Disruptive Tool for Human Rights Violations: An Exploration of the Challenges Faced by Performance Artists

The proliferation of online platforms and digital tools has introduced both opportunities and challenges for individuals, particularly within the realm of social media. While platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. have served as avenues for cultural, social, economic, educational, state-run, and political discourse, they have also facilitated the emergence of paranoiac phenomena, such as trolling. This paper delves into the portrayal of trolling as a disruptive technological tool and cultural phenomenon in Bangladesh, specifically targeting TV actors, theatre performers, and local rural artists. The study highlights the pervasive use of trolling as a means to harass, criticize, and intimidate artists online. It reveals how trolling not only violates the human rights of these artists but also undermines their creativity, credibility, and sense of belonging within society. For methodological justification, it has employed a mixed-method research approach incorporating questionnaire surveys administered to 38 participants, interviews with two aspiring artists, three theatre artists, and three students studying theatre and performance studies, and analysis of social media comments. The paper unravelled that trolling is used exclusively as an online harassment tool to embarrass performance artists in Bangladesh. It underscores the detrimental impact of trolling, leading to psychological distress, depression, and alienation among targeted artists. In response to these challenges, the paper offers recommendations aimed at empowering artists to confront and combat online harassment, thereby safeguarding their well-being and fostering a more supportive digital environment conducive to artistic expression and innovation.

Improvisation and Artistic Performance in Kurdish Song Forms

Improvisation and Artistic Performance in Kurdish Song Forms

Simulation of e-learning visualization technology based on image enhancement in the communication mode of public performance art videos

With the simulation of public performing arts video communication modes, this study aims to explore the application of image-enhanced electronic learning visualization techniques in this field. Through the introduction of this technology, it aims to improve the effect of e-learning and enhance learners' understanding and perception of public performing arts videos. Through the acquisition and processing of public performing arts videos, the image enhancement technology is used to improve the image clarity and color saturation. Based on the e-learning platform, the enhanced video will be transmitted online, so that learners can watch through electronic devices and carry out corresponding learning operations. Finally, the learning effect of traditional learning and image-based e-learning. The results show that e-learning visualization technology based on image enhancement can significantly improve learners' understanding and feelings of public performing arts videos. Through the enhanced video images, learners can more clearly observe the actors' performance movements, facial expressions and other details, so as to better understand the connotation and communication meaning of the public performing arts.

Vive la république européenne? Reading The European Balcony Project as artistic counter-public

ABSTRACT The article first contextualizes the European Balcony Project (EBP), a manifesto written by authors Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse, and theatre director Milo Rau who subsequently put it up for discussion in various public fora. On 10 November 2018, artists and citizens performed the manifesto and proclaimed the European Republic from (theatre) balconies and public places in 25 European countries. They encouraged a dialogue that sought to promote a more diverse public sphere. In my reading, the EBP emerges as a contemporary version of Oskar Negt’s and Alexander Kluge’s public counter sphere, as a real and imaginary community in which political participation is enacted through the medium of talk in an arena of discursive interaction and democratic practice. By reading the texts in the context of a political avantgarde project, I show how the interventions aim to set a counterpoint to the resurgence of nationalism and promote a vision of a democratic continent based in shared values. My article thus illustrates how public art performances such as the EBP contribute to the thickening of imaginative relations throughout Europe and might aid in the construction of a larger European cultural identity.

Unveiling the Veil: Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Filipino College Students

This study examined the current knowledge of Filipino college students on the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of the Philippines. The study included 75 college students during the academic year 2022-2023. Through a qualitative approach, the students submitted written essays anchored to the research questions. Thematic analysis was employed to analyze the qualitative data, adhering to the stages of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The analysis resulted in the surfacing of various themes which are the result of this study: (1) Exposure to art forms, (2) association with indigenous people, (3) essence of values and practices, (4) misunderstandings about ICH, and (5) safeguarding of ICH. Students who came from the provinces experienced ICH through their festivities and local cultures, which are annual celebrations of various communities. There were also students who observed their locality’s people, handicrafts, and even familial behaviors. The presence of various art forms, performances, and experiences with indigenous peoples, and local traditions, regardless of whether it is within their families or communities, and their own knowledge of recent social issues unveiled the opportunities for the students to be exposed to the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and safeguard it. The author proposed a recommendation to further study and formulate a probable teaching and learning approach for college students to be more exposed to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Philippines.

Re-presencing telematic dreaming – awakening a critical feminist phenomenology

ABSTRACT This article enacts a re-presencing of Telematic Dreaming, the influential telepresence art installation by Paul Sermon from the 1990s. Revisiting an often-cited text I wrote in 1994 called ‘Spacemaking', which spoke from the experience of being a performer in the installation, I fill in what was missing, downplayed or unwelcome in the discourses of the time: that nobody is anybody (i.e. in technological environments bodies are never neutral or universal); and that artistic works are deeply contextual and intersectional. Taking a strongly political and contextual approach to Telematic Dreaming, I first reflect on the dual states of wonder & entitlement characterising digital experimentation of the 1990s then I consider the cultural structures and material infrastructures of the installation, assessing the scope for ontological expansiveness and gender crique they afforded. Beyond a particular instance of time-travel, this article proposes a new methodological framework for examining past performances. By turning to critical phenomenology, with contributions from feminist archaeology, media archaeology, and an unexpected appearance of Sara Ahmed’s feminist killjoy, I offer an approach that paves the way for future researchers interested in engaging reflexively and critically with historical phenomenological analyses of artistic performance and of wider lived experiences.