P/Reenacting Emotions: Feeling Futures in Performing Arts
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- Theresa Schütz research assistant
- Konstantin Lück student assistant
The performance studies research project explores the contribution of the performing arts to tangibly co-shaping future forms of feelings. We examine which modes of representation and interaction, and which artistic practices address societal conflicts and social issues that can neither be assigned to clear affective classifications nor to established emotion repertoires, because they are situated in an anticipated future and/or are controversial in multiple ways. The project’s goal is to analyze the performative works as preenactments of possible modes of affective and emotional new orientations in the world. For this purpose, performances, but also workshops accompanying performances as well as discursive, material, and cultural-political structures of current transformation processes within the institutions of the performing arts will be examined regarding those complex affective dynamics that accompany, shape and challenge institutional change and thus institutional feeling futures.