Introduction
The performing arts field has long been an object of attention by theatre and performance scholars, sociologists, and researchers in cultural policy and cultural economics. Results in the form of shows have been analysed and critiqued, and artistic processes and methodologies scrutinized and discussed through a variety of topics, ranging from dramaturgy to audience development.
To the contrary, the contexts in which performing arts works are produced have been more rarely considered and studied. Specifically, there seems to be little understanding of some of the changing patterns in production and cultural management: how have artists organized themselves collectively recently, after ‘companies’ and ‘ensembles’ have lost their prevalence as organizational models? What are the formal and informal sites available for artists to escape precarity and develop their artistic practice? How is the role of producers, creative producers and managers evolving? What is the relationship between the ongoing transformations and training and professionalization paradigms? In which way do the contemporary fragmented modes of production limit artistic risk-taking? How can feminist artistic practices open alternative ways to dominant institutional models?
Modes of Production – Performing Arts in Transition aims to take stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and their impact on ways of producing and managing theatre, dance and performance in the context of cultural projects or institutions. Linking art studies with the more hybrid field of cultural management, we will gather and present a variety of contributions documenting multiple transitions taking place in the performing arts in different national and international contexts.
Organizing Comittee
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Fernando Matos Oliveira Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches in the areas of Performance and Theatre Studies. Director of the PhD Programme in Art Studies. His main areas of interest are Modern and Contemporary Theatre, and Performance Art. He has been Director of the Academic Theatre of the University of Coimbra since 2011 and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. https://apps.uc.pt/mypage/faculty/fmatos/pt
Arts manager and researcher working in the performing arts field for over 15 years. Served either as in-house manager or external consultant in various national and international artistic institutions and projects, mainly in strategic planning, management and programming. She writes, teaches and speaks regularly about cultural policy and management. Master in Cultural Policy and Management by City University of London. Currently researching for a Phd in Artistic Studies at the University of Coimbra, focusing on the changing role of producers and managers and alternative models of collaboration and management in the performing arts.
Graduated and Master in Artistic Studies (Theatre, Film and Music) by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, has been working in the cultural area since 2011. In 2015 begins a collaboration with Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (University of Coimbra), integrating LIPA (Research and Artistic Practices Laboratory) in 2020, performing functions in the areas of production and communication. |
Oradores
Annelies Van Assche (BE)
“Represent Your Brand — How to Manage a Contemporary Dance Career in Europe”
Daniele Sampaio (BR)
“Production and invention of worlds: the role of cultural production and management in experimental artistic trajectories”
Duška Radosavljević (UK)
“Towards re-professionalisation of theatre training”
Fernando Matos Oliveira (PT)
“Transient ecologies of production: art and research in the Academy”
Joana Marques (PT)
“Modes of collective organizing in Portuguese performing arts”
Marta Keil (PL)
“Feminist performing art institutions and practices as a proposal of getting together otherwise”
Thomas Schmidt (DE)
“German theater system at the crossroads”
Vânia Rodrigues (PT)
“Arts management and production in the performing arts: time to reboot?”
Contacts
Modes of Production
E-mail: performingartsintransition @gmail.com *
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Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente - TAGV
Av. Sá da Bandeira - Praça da República 3000-343 Coimbra (Portugal)
Phone: (+351) 239 855 630
Website: www.tagv.pt
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Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra - CEIS20
Rua Filipe Simões nº 33 3000-186 Coimbra (Portugal)
Phone: (+351) 239 708 870
Website: www.uc.pt/iii/ceis20
Institutional partners
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
TAGV was the first theatre ever to be created in a public university in Portugal and has been operating since 1961. In the last two decades, TAGV has been steadily supporting artistic education and research, namely through practice-as-research programmes, archive and documentation and theory and criticism.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies - University of Coimbra
The Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS20 – is a research unit of the University of Coimbra (UC), integrated in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) since 1998. In the context of its educational practices and promotion of advanced training CEIS20 has offered since 2011 a PhD Programme in Contemporary Studies. Additionally, the Centre delivers post-graduate education in other forms and provides training to young researchers by fostering advanced research practices. It hosts a large number of Portuguese and foreign post-doctoral researchers.
