The project “Playing Identities. Migration, Creolisation, Creation“, funded with the support from EU Culture Programme 2007-2013, aims to interpret migration phenomena as instances of creolisation.
Coordinated by the Santa Chiara Graduate School of Siena University and involving a wide international partnership, the original aspect of this project stands in the intuition of borrowing Glissant’s poetical vision of creolisation and to apply it to two distinct processes of creation.
On one side we choose Performing Arts, namely theatre, in order to produce a play in which artists from diverse theatrical backgrounds are forced to the negotiation of expressive codes, practices and meanings.
On the other side, we choose to engage with an interdisciplinary research in the Social Sciences and Humanities in order to develop new conceptual tools and an integrated framework for the analysis of migration phenomena, by seeking a deep exchange among disciplines and researchers with diverse theoretical and methodological backgrounds.
By pairing the features of the two processes of creation – the fi rst understood as an intercultural constitution of identity, the second as an interdisciplinary elaboration of analytic methodology – we expect to indicate the potentialities of a creolised approach to a better grasping of intercultural dynamics.
Project Coordinator
Giovanni Berardino
Scuola Superiore Santa Chiara – Università degli Studi di Siena
Scientific Coordinator
Tommaso Sbriccoli
Scuola Superiore Santa Chiara – Università degli Studi di Siena
Artistic Coordinator
Anne Pinson
Errances Association Culturelle
Associated Partners
University of Ljubljana, Monash University of Melbourne, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid), Fondazione Teatro Due Parma, Regione Toscana, Teatrul Imposibil, Maire de Conques, National Theatre Cluj, Gődőr Klub Budapest, Festival Temps d’Images, Cobertura Photo (Sevilla).