How Little is Enough? : Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters
Author
Summary, in English
The four performance works of this artistic research are: No Show (2020), Island (2020), Strings (2022), and Pleased to Meet You (2022/2023). The three publications of the project are: How Little is Enough? Embracing and Porous Dramaturgies for Transformative Encounters, a video article; How Little is Enough? A Quest for Existential Sustainability, a video article; and the podcast series Transformative Encounters. Utilizing Me-thod, a pluralistic situated methodology grounded in the artist´s personal background and skillset, together with the how-little-is-enough approach, which minimizes production and focuses on essential needs, the project has collected insights into how performative encounters can initiate transformation in participants and foster connections to the world around them, thereby enhancing existential sustainability and nurturing care for the environment. Through repeated cycles of action-based artistic research, employing qualitative materials and autoethnographical approaches, rich data was generated. The findings emphasize the importance of personal engagement, embodiment, and authentic exchange as catalysts for transformation within performative encounters.
Through this investigation, the thesis aims to contribute to the development of sustainable approaches to performance-making that facilitate profound and meaningful human experiences in an era marked by unprecedented societal and environmental challenges.
Department/s
Publishing year
2024-09-27
Language
English
Publication/Series
Doctoral Studies and Research in Fine and Performing Arts
Issue
32
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Malmö: Lund University, Malmö Theatre Academy
Topic
- Performing Arts
Keywords
- Relation-specific-performance
- Participatory-performance
- Sustainability
- Existential-sustainability
- Porous-dramaturgy
- Embracing-dramaturgy
- Site-specificity
- Human-specificity
- Agenda 2030
- Ecology
- Do-it-yourself-performance
- Performative-encounters
- Transformative-encounters
- Theatre
- Performance
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Gudbjorg R. Johannesdottir
- Sofie Lebech
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1653-8617
- ISBN: 978-91-8104-106-4
- ISBN: 978-91-8104-107-1
Defence date
27 September 2024
Defence time
13:00
Defence place
Bryggeriteatern, Malmö Theatre Academy, Bergsgatan 31 B
Opponent
- Rebecca Hilton (Dr.)